Seven provinces suspended schools and İstanbul banned the use of motorcycles and electric scooters until 6 p.m. today.

According to the statement of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), the epicenter of the earthquake was 56.18 kilometers from Urla district, with a depth of 3.97 kilometers. A 4.3-magnitude aftershock was measured 9 minutes later.

Taken into custody on charge of “political and military espionage”, DEVA Party founding member Metin Gürcan has been arrested by the criminal judgeship of peace on duty.

Applying to the Court of Cassation, the Ministry of Justice has requested that the legal proceedings against novelist Orhan Pamuk over his book “Nights of Plague” be overturned “for the sake of law”.

Bekir Şahin, the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, presented his opinion as to the accusations to the top court and demanded that the HDP’s objections and requests in its defense be rejected, once again asking for its “permanent closure”.

The Asrın Law Office has announced that their application for meeting Öcalan and their other clients in the İmralı Prison, of whom they have not heard for 8 months, has been rejected and Öcalan has been given two new bans on visitation.

Yılmaz Karaca, the Chair of the Federation of Journalists of Turkey (TGF), has raised concerns about the economic hardships faced by the local press in Turkey, warning that at least 100 newspapers may be closed this year alone.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 358 thousand tests were conducted, 24,317 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 189 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

The Journalists' Union of Turkey has denounced the dismissal of the personnel.

Thanks to his low interest rate policies, the inflation rate will decrease by the next elections, the president has asserted.

Strong southwestern winds affected several cities, including İstanbul and İzmir.

The businessperson spoke after the court once again refused to release him at the hearing on Friday.

The two-day summit marks the establishment of the B40 Balkan Cities Network.

In three separate court cases, the İstanbul 33rd Labor Court has ruled that seven workers shall be reinstated in their jobs at the Yurtiçi Kargo courier company and the company shall pay damages.

The State of Emergency Commission has refused to reinstate the academics despite a Constitutional Court ruling.

The executives and members of the Progressive Land, Air and Railway Workers Union (Nakliyat-İş) organized a protest in İstanbul’s Taksim and demanded that the minimum wage be increased from 2,825 lira to 6,800 lira (~540 USD).

Hanukkah will be observed between November 28 and December 6 this year.

One trans woman lost her life and three others were injured in the attacks. The Genç LGBTI+ Association condemned the incidents.

Turkey has imposed a ban on travel from five African countries after the emergence of a new coronavirus variant, the Omicron, which has been declared the “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO).

As the court ruled for the continuation of Osman Kavala’s arrest on November 26, Amnesty International has addressed an open letter to the heads of states of the Council of Europe, calling on them to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey.