In the trial of the man who attacked Syrian refugee and trans woman Asya with acid, the appeals court has overturned the local court verdict and increased his prison sentence to 12 years. Lawyer Tosun has welcomed the appeals court ruling.

HDP Kocaeli MP Gergerlioğlu, also a physician, speaks to bianet about the contradictory medical reports on jailed politician Aysel Tuğluk. According to the MP, the report of the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution does not contain medical statements.

Put on trial for reporting on torture in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van, journalists Bilen, Uğur, Abi, Sala and Durgut have been acquitted of “membership of a terrorist organization”. Sala is given a deferred prison sentence for “propaganda”.

According to main opposition CHP Vice Chair Biçer-Karaca’s report, women constituted one of the groups most severely affected by the increasing violations of rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis in Turkey in 2021.

Lawyer Efkan Bolaç wrote on Twitter on July 16, 2016: “Nothing so bad but it might have been worse, we have seen this, too. The diktat enthusiasts who staged a coup against the diktat have turned the country into a fireground.”

With a legislative proposal approved by the Parliament, the fines to be imposed for stockpiling have been increased and the management of privatized ports in Turkey may be extended to 49 years without tenders.

While Turkey has recently reported the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Koca has released a statement after the Coronavirus Science Board meeting and announced that the quarantine period for positive cases will be 7 days.

In compliance with the Constitutional Court ruling based on civil inspectors’ report, an administrative court has concluded that the administration was at fault at the level of negligence in the October 10 Ankara massacre and accepted the request for damages.

Mezopotamya Agency Managing Editor Ferhat Çelik was detained on the night of January 4. He gave his statement both at the prosecutor’s office and the judgeship. After he was released, he was detained again and gave another statement to the police.

The government has answered the Parliamentary question of Left Party (Die Linke) MP Sevim Dağdelen in Germany and said that there is an increase in Ankara’s “espionage” activities against dissidents from Turkey. Dağdelen herself is also targeted.

January 5 marked the second year since university student Gülistan Doku went missing in Turkey’s eastern province of Dersim. Women met in Dersim for her and reiterated their determination to find out her fate and whereabouts.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 417 thousand tests were conducted, 66,467 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 143 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.