The summaries of proceedings seeking to lift the legislative immunity of 20 MPs, including 15 HDP MPs and CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, have been presented to the Parliamentary Speaker’s Office.

Lawyer Molu underlines that even though the Convention is no longer in force in Turkey, the country still has legal obligations in the face of male violence: “Men shouldn’t think, ‘I attack women and go unpunished.’ This is not the case.”

A local journalist has been sentenced to prison for reporting on an incident of child abuse.

“Turkey has set the clock back ten years on women’s rights and set a terrifying precedent. This deplorable decision has already become a rallying point for women’s rights activists all over the world,” says Amnesty's Secretary General Callamard.

In the trial over the killing of Uğur Kantar by torture during his mandatory military service, a heavy penal court in Ankara has sentenced defendant Fırat Keser to aggravated life imprisonment for “causing death as a result of torture.”

As part of the third stage of the reopening schedule, an outdoor music ban after midnight has taken effect and the ban on shisha service in cafes will continue while most of the measures have been lifted.

The opposition parties have sharply criticized the recent hikes in the electricity and natural gas prices: "They increased the electricity price by 15 percent on the day when they set up a Price Stability Committee. This is no joke."

We have spoken with a medical student, a new graduate and the Turkish Medical Association secretary-general as to why medical students want to leave Turkey.

Filing a lawsuit against CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his speech at the CHP group meeting this week, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan demands 500 thousand lira in damages “because his personal rights were violated.”

The ITUC has released its 2021 Global Rights Index. Listing Turkey among the 10 worst countries for working people again, the Index says, “COVID-19 was used as an excuse to single out trade union members for forced unpaid leave in Turkey."

HDP Group Deputy Chair Oluç talked about the President’s circular on public saving measures, defining it as an “arrangement of bankruptcy”. He criticized it for not including the Presidency’s Department for Administrative and Financial Affairs.

Shortly after the main opposition CHP and İYİ Party MPs withdrew from the Parliamentary Commission for Inquiring the Causes of Violence Against Women, the HDP MPs have also followed suit and withdrawn from the Commission.