England has updated its travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. While Turkey has remained on the “red list”, Bahrain, India, Qatar and United Arab Emirates have moved to the “amber list.”

The coal-fired plant was evacuated last night and all flammable materials in the plant were removed.

Erdoğan talks about the forest fires raging across Turkey: “Cattle, sheep or white meat… We will make the payments for them all.” Like the Minister of Forestry, he says that metropolitan municipalities are responsible for the fires in residential areas.

Briefly detained for harassing a woman employee who is not a citizen of Turkey in Kadıköy, dentist İsmail B. is now facing a lawsuit on charges of “simple sexual assault” and “damage to property”.

Several journalists and protesters were attacked by a mob in Kasımpaşa, İstanbul after a demonstration in Taksim to protest the massacre of a Kurdish family in Konya.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into some social media messages about the fires raging across Turkey, stating that the related posts “tried to degrade the state and government of the Republic of Turkey.”

The forest fire in Muğla’s Milas has reached the thermal power plant. While the power plant has been evacuated, the wind has made it difficult to intervene in the fire. The Defense Ministry has announced that people have been taken to safe places.

According to the latest statement about the forest fires raging across Turkey, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Pakdemirli has announced that 16 fires are still continuing in seven provinces while 167 fires in 33 provinces have been taken under control.

The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) İstanbul Branch has released its quarterly report on prisons in the Marmara region: Prisoners have been prevented from engaging in activities in common spaces such as talks and sports for over a year.

The 11th “Pandemic Bulletin” of the TTB has been delivered by TTB Central Council Chair Prof. Korur-Fincancı: “Not managing the pandemic, the government’s shortcomings in tackling the fires and floods are also before the eyes of all of us.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 262 thousand tests were conducted, 26,822 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 122 people died of the disease and 261,863 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

A court gave consent to its own request two merge two cases concerning the 2013 Gezi Park protests, Osman Kavala's attorneys have said.

Fugitive Mehmet Altun, the murder suspect of seven people from a Kurdish family in Konya according to the security camera footage, has been caught six days after the armed attack. 10 people were arrested over the attack a day before.

Four academics from France who have been unable to fulfil the obligation of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) to know B2 level Turkish for a work and residence permit have left Galatasaray University.

Lawyer O. Meriç Eyüboğlu has lashed out at the access block imposed on our 141 news reports: “We will - of course - not stay silent in the face of this censorship, this grave interference with the right to receive and report news.”

Belgium's foreign minister has said the EU-Turkey deal on Syrian refugees should be expanded to Afghans shortly after the US suggested its partners in Afghanistan apply to Turkey for asylum.

Mehmet Oktay, the Mayor of Marmaris in Muğla, has said that two firefighting helicopters came to the district this morning, but the fires are still raging in two spots.

The CFWIJ has released its monthly press freedom status report: “Throughout the month of July, Georgia was the country with the highest number of physical assaults, with 14 women journalists. Turkey followed its lead by 10 female reporters.”

Karayol reports from Muğla’s Turunç neighborhood: “I think due to the shortage of aerial vehicles, firefighting planes or helicopters have to leave the area without fully extinguishing the fire. They slow down its speed and move on to another region.”

Among the online content blocked by penal judgeships is bianet’s male violence monitoring report as well as the news on trial of journalists, the operations on December 17-25, 2013 and the land purchase of Berat Albayrak along the route of Canal İstanbul.