Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced that two people have been diagnosed with the “Mu variant” of coronavirus in Turkey, noting that for the time being, the Ministry is not planning to introduce additional measures.

The government is preparing a new law that includes incentives for the companies that undertake the construction of the canal, an opposition politician has claimed.

Releasing its 40th monthly media monitoring report, the Progressive Journalists Association says, “We will either make our voices heard freely or we will perish.”

The Muğla Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that the parents and ex-wife of arrested defendant Cemal Metin A. as well as Şükrü Gökhan O. be separately penalized for trying to hide the evidence in the Pınar Gültekin feminicide case.

In the trial held upon the criminal complaint of Erdoğan because he said, “The filth of the government is before the eyes of the world”, fashion designer Barbaros Şansal has been sentenced to 3 months, 22 days in prison.

Saadi Gaddafi has been released as part of a reconciliation project initiated by the Tripoli government.

The eighth hearing of the Çorlu Train Massacre, which claimed the lives of 25 people, including seven children, in 2018, is held today, on September 9. Having lost her grandson, Mehmet Öz says, “If there is no justice, let this court not be here, either.”

Amnesty International has noted that with a number of states, including Denmark, Sweden and Turkey, restricting protection and putting pressure on refugees from Syria to go home, its report is proof that no part of Syria is safe to return to.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the pogrom against Rums, Armenians and Jews that took place on September 6-7, 1966.

Şırnak Bar Association Chair Rojhat Dilsiz visited the family of Mihraç Miroğlu, who was run over by an armored vehicle and lost his life. Extending his condolences to the family, Dilsiz said that 36 people died in armored vehicle crashes in 10 years.

The Youth for Climate Turkey has launched a campaign, underlining that “the current education in Turkey is not sufficient in terms of climate change.”

Causing outrage for planning to introduce a price increase discriminating against refugees in the city, main opposition CHP’s Bolu Mayor Özcan also drew criticism over his sexist remarks. He has been referred to the CHP’s disciplinary board to be warned.