Main opposition CHP MP Gürer has raised concerns that the abnormal increase in the prices of fertilizers may drive Turkey into a food crisis, calling on the authorities to intervene in fertilizer prices as soon as possible and introduce the necessary discounts.

Future Party Chair Davutoğlu, also a former AKP politician, has commented on President and AKP Chair Erdoğan’s remarks of “We don’t recognize the EU’s decisions”.

The TİHV-HRFT and İHD: “Turkey is going through one of the gravest economic crises of the last 40 years. Poverty, precarity and disorganization have been aggravated by state of emergency practices. This picture has taken on a graver look with the pandemic.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 19,696 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 195 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

According to the statement released by Turkey's Ministry of National Defense, three soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. Falling from a high place in Syria’s Idlib, one soldier has passed away at hospital.

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has made a written statement ahead of the Human Rights Day on December 10.

As part of an investigation over his social media messages, the police seized the 20-year archive of video activist and documentary filmmaker Oktay İnce in 2018. İnce got back his archive yesterday, on December 8, 2021.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released its annual report: “The number of journalists jailed around the world set another record in 2021. Repressive regimes from Asia to Europe to Africa cracked down harshly on the independent press.”

Two dams providing İstanbulites with water, the Pabuçdere and Kazandere dams in Kırklareli, have almost run dry as a result of drought as well as the zoning of their basins for construction and the damages to forest ecosystems.

Wounded in the accident, Hakan’s mother says, “My son told me once, ‘Mom, you will find us on the mountain road one day, the minibus goes so fast.’ We found our children not on the mountain road but on a straight road.”

Transparency International has granted the 7th Transparency Awards to the Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects, journalist Timur Soykan and Faruk Çebi, "a bureaucrat who devoted himself to the protection of nature."

The Urfa Bar Association and the Diyarbakır Regional Representative of the DİSK labor confederation visited the Şenyaşar Family on the 275th day of their justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse yesterday, on December 8.

Walking up to CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu took the floor afterwards and said that he would file a lawsuit against Özel: “Don’t worry, what is coming is coming.”

HDP Urfa MP Nusrettin Maçin has been invited to leave the General Assembly hall and suspended from three sessions of the General Assembly of the Parliament for saying “Freedom to Kurdistan” in his speech during the budget talks.

The suspect from Saudi Arabia, who was detained in Paris over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, has been released a day later after identity verification has confirmed that he is the wrong person, a senior judicial officer has announced.

Arrested at the age of 14 for “killing” four people during the Kobanî incidents in 2014, Mazlum İ. is given a life sentence though evidence suggests that he was at a wedding during the incident. Lawyer Karaman has released a statement about the issue.

Put on trial for disrupting the investigation, ignoring evidence and protecting senior military officers, the prosecutor investigating the “Operation Return to Life” in Bayrampaşa Prison has been acquitted by the Court of Cassation.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 356 thousand tests were conducted, 20,874 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 192 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

According to the data of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), wildfires this year generated 148 percent more than the total EU fossil fuel emissions in 2020.

President Erdoğan: “We don’t recognize the decisions taken by the European Union about Kavala, Demirtaş, this or that… This is so simple. We assume that ‘they [decisions] do not exist’. In our eyes, these are null and void.”