The Turkish lira gained about 15 percent in value against the US dollar within hours after President Erdoğan introduced the new system.

Video footage refuted the officer's claim that he pulled the trigger "by accident." The defendant should have been sentenced to aggravated life sentence given the circumstances, the plaintiff attorney said.

Journalists were charged with "preventing public officials from performing their duties" int he case filed after a 2016 raid on the now-shuttered newspaper.

The drought was especially severe in the eastern and southeastern parts of the country, according to the State Meteorological Service.

Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu previously defined it as a “right sensitivity” that the Council of State halted the execution of the Directorate General of Security's circular banning journalists from audio and visual recordings during public incidents.

The Court of Cassation has upheld the life imprisonment of Nevin Yıldırım, who exercised her right of self-defense and killed the man who sexually assaulted her.

Seeking justice for her spouse and two sons killed in an armed attack in Turkey’s southeastern province of Urfa, Emine Şenyaşar has been summoned to give her statement on the grounds that she allegedly “insulted a public official”.

The court board told HDP politician Bülent Parmaksız, “Make defense as to the accusations; we don’t do politics here”. Parmaksız responded: “You put us on trial over politics; we naturally talk politics.”

The DİSK Press Union protested Muharrem Sarıkaya’s physical violence against reporter Ahmet Demir in front of the Habertürk media outlet’s building in İstanbul. “The slap in the face of laborers cannot be forgiven,” said union chair Faruk Eren.

With her medical condition deteriorating, former HDP MP Aysel Tuğluk is still held behind bars. 68 women’s organizations demand her freedom in a joint statement.

The defendants, including former military officers, were accused of perpetrating extrajudicial killings in Cizre, Diyarbakır between 1993 and 1995.

Kurdish politician Türk attended the Kobanî trial via video conference: “We have faced injustice in these processes. I went through September 12 [coup]. We are faced with the same injustice despite the 50 years that have passed since then.”

The trial over the death of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu as a result of the tear gas used by the police continued at the Trabzon 2nd High Criminal Court. Rights organizations and politicians addressed the public after the hearing.

The İstanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded up to 7 years in prison for 11 people, including two siblings who had the trees at a park cut because they were blocking their view of the Leander’s Tower from home.

Erdoğan: “If the returns made by our people on Turkish Lira at the bank is higher than the increase in the exchange rate, they will receive these returns; but if the returns given by the exchange rate is higher, the margin will be directly paid to our citizens.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 351 thousand tests were conducted, 18,762 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 176 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

The gross debt stock of the central government has increased to 2.2 trillion lira over the past few months "because of wrong policies," says the CHP's Lale Karabıyık.

Caught while fleeing after bombing the Umut Bookshop in Hakkari’s Şemdinli in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, non-commissioned military officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz and informant Veysel Ateş have been acquitted in retrial.

The trial over the killing of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu with pepper gas continued at the Trabzon 2nd High Criminal Court. The court has accepted the lawyers' request for hearing the defendants in courtroom and adjourned the trial until January 6-7.

"While we were asking 'Where is the 128 billion dollars?' we were thinking about these days," Kılıçdaroğlu has said.