The Üsküdar Municipality in İstanbul previously appealed against the decision of stay of execution given for the development plan of the Validebağ Grove. The İstanbul Regional Administrative Court has rejected this appeal.

Addressing Erdoğan and Bahçeli, DEVA Party Chair Babacan says, “If trustees are appointed to municipalities of Kurdish-majority cities, there is an issue. If the right of mother language is still debated, there is an issue. And it is called the Kurdish issue.”

Amid debates on “who the interlocutor is in resolving the Kurdish question”, President Erdoğan has recently said that “there is no such an issue in Turkey”. We have compiled his different statements over the course of his term in office in the last 19 years.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 340 thousand tests were conducted, 25,861 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 and 228 people died of the disease in a day. Over 107 million vaccine doses have been administered so far.

“I thank my fellow PEN members for entrusting me with PEN’s future - an honour and a responsibility that I recognise and will keep in my mind and heart as I fill the role of President of our noble organisation,” says novelist Sönmez in his acceptance speech.

“As two NATO countries, Turkey and the US should be in a very different position,” says President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, accusing the US of “supporting terrorist organizations beyond expectation.”

Statements by the main opposition party's leader have triggered a new debate on the Kurdish question.

In the trial over the police violence against former bianet reporter Beyza Kural, the court has accepted one police officer’s request for being exempted from attending the hearings while the other officer will attend the hearings via video conferencing.

With their three family members killed and one arrested, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar have been keeping a justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse for 200 days.

University students have been facing a "housing crisis" with exorbitant rent prices and infussificent dorm capacities.

A family in İzmir say that their baby was given Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine instead of an Hepatitis B vaccine at a family medicine center. Their lawyer Dilek Güzel has made a statement about the criminal complaint filed by the family about the incident.

Commenting on the court ruling cancelling the changes in the development plan of the Dikmen Valley, which would zone green spaces for construction, Chamber of Architects’ Ankara Chair says, “The judiciary has found our struggle justified.”

Turkey still uses chlorpyrifos, a banned pesticide known to be dangerous for children, a HDP deputy has said, citing the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.

According to the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), 26 health workers died of COVID-19 in the last 4 months. While 13 were not vaccinated, 10 had not yet received their booster shots. Prof. Nilgün Toker has also warned against anti-vaccination.

Referring to Turkey-US relations, Erdoğan has said that “the state of affairs doesn’t bode well.” He has also argued that “there is no Kurdish issue in Turkey as they have already resolved and overcome it.”

The court has given a decision of stay of execution for the production permit of a stone quarry attempted to be opened in the Ayman Highland in Bolu province. Villagers have urged the State Hydraulic Works to respect the judicial process and halt the works.

What do the university students who have been staying the night at parks for days want? What can the government and the opposition do? “The university students at the park” are giving the answers.

In a notification sent to the family of Deniz Poyraz, who was killed in an armed attack in HDP İzmir Office, it is written that “their statements will be taken as complainants.” Mother Fehime Poyraz says, “There is a murderer, but still no court case.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 27,844 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 217 people died of the disease and 400,962 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

The Central Bank has reduced the policy rate to 18 percent. The US dollar's exchange rate against the lira rose to 8.80 during the day.