Today is October 29 Republic Day in Turkey, which marks the anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. The day is celebrated across the country with different events while the top state officials paid a visit to the Monumental Tomb of Atatürk.

In the investigation into “excessive prices”, BİM, CarrefourSA, Migros, ŞOK, A101 and Savola Gıda grocery store chains have been given an administrative fine of 2 billion 671 million lira in total, which is approximately 280 million US dollars.

Taken into custody and arrested as part of the operations against recycling workers in İstanbul, three recycling workers have been released 24 days later.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party has denounced the decision to deport the Syrians who shared videos of themselves while eating bananas: “While the war is still ongoing, migrants cannot be left for death by using the ‘banana-eating videos’ as an excuse.”

The Human Rights Association (İHD) Ankara Branch has shared the findings of its third quarterly report on violations of rights in prisons in central Anatolia.

Ercümen managed to complete a 100-meter dive in 2 minutes and 53 seconds in offshore Kaş in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya.

Actress Itziar Ituño Martínez was in Turkey for the premiere of the film “Grev” (Strike) about a group of women workers’ resistance at a textile factory in 1910. Başak Demirtaş, the spouse of jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş, shared a picture with her.

CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “The politics has gotten rough recently. There are threats against me. I really don’t care. No matter what they do, they cannot turn me away from the course that I believe in.”

Discharged from Ankara University by a Statutory Decree for having signed the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, Nail Dertli’s application has been rejected by the State of Emergency Commission.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 354 thousand tests were conducted, 25,528 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 229 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Berk Acar passed all the exams to become a sub-governor.

After a man said during a vox pop interview that "Syrians can afford bananas while I can't," several refugees mocked him, sharing videos while eating bananas.