We have interviewed retired Ambassador Yalım Eralp about the Osman Kavala case and Turkey-US relations.

As people were protesting the dismissal of the elected mayor, five journalists following the events had been detained and filed a criminal case against.

The HDP Economy Commission has made a statement before the budget talks at the Parliamentary Commission. Walking with banners in their hands, they have chanted the slogan, “Budget for the people, not for the pro-government.”

The workers had started protesting for their union rights after the company fired 14 people in 2018.

The academics of Boğaziçi University have appealed to the Council of State and demanded the cancellation of Naci İnci’s appointment as the rector of the university, underlining that his appointment is against the law.

Discharged and arrested academic Gülmen wanted to send letters from prison where she also wrote, “I would like to talk about scholarships.” Her letters are found “objectionable” because of “agenda-setting by targeting people and institutions.”

According to BİA Media Monitoring Report, 29 journalists were physically attacked, 11 were detained in the 3rd quarter of 2021. While the attacks on journalists soared from 11 to 29 in a year, they went beyond borders with Erk Acarer stabbed in Berlin.

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has concluded that there is no ground for investigating the remarks of the then Minister of Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar, who said, “Whatever is in my file is true.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 360 thousand tests were conducted, 30,862 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 223 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Upon the criminal complaint of Burdur Provincial Gendarmerie Command, an access block has been imposed on two news reports and one article published by Evrensel Newspaper 5-6 years ago. The daily will appeal against the block.

The European Commission has issued its 2021 Report on Turkey, raising concerns about the state of fundamental rights, rule of law, judicial independence and press freedom. Foreign Ministry has slammed the report over “double standards.”

The agency's budget will increase by over 24 percent from this year.