Speaking about the allegations of Sedat Peker, Interior Minister Soylu has said that it was not him who gave Peker a police guard, adding that he has withdrawn the guard when he came into office as the Minister of Interior.

The Foreign Ministry has released a written statement regarding the adoption of the European Parliament’s 2019-2020 Report on Turkey: “The wording in the report is trying to open the future of Turkey's accession negotiations to discussion.”

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 233 people died of coronavirus and 11,553 people tested positive with over 218 thousand tests in a day. 2,162 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

The interior minister previously said he would accept any punishment if contact between him and Sedat Peker was proven.

Yelda Kaharman, an 18-year-old student and a local journalist from Kyrgyzstan, was found dead at home in March 2019. Accusations against AKP deputy Tolga Ağar about the incident have resurfaced after crime leader Sedat Peker's videos.

Today marks the 102nd year since 353 thousand people were massacred, thousands of others were exiled and the Greek culture was destroyed.

Accused of leading a criminal organization, Peker has shared the recordings of his two video calls with journalist Hadi Özışık, who denied that he had mediated between Peker and Interior Minister Soylu. Soylu has said that he will file a criminal complaint.

Placed under house arrest after being detained as part of the operations against the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), journalist Pınar Gayıp has been released from house arrest.

Armeni̇a has filed an inter-state case against Turkey, complaining that “Turkey provided assistance to the Azerbaijani armed forces during the conflict” in Nagorno-Karabakh in September-November 2020.

The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the rights of football player Deniz Naki, who was fined due to his social media posts in 2016, and the rights of Amedspor football club, which was fined due to ‘ideological cheers’, have been violated.

The Health Minister has shared the weekly provincial COVID-19 rates. The new numbers have shown that the number of cases per 100,000 people was nearly 185 in Istanbul and over 152 in the capital city of Ankara on May 8-14.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 203 people died of coronavirus and 11,937 people tested positive with over 217 thousand tests in a day. 2,232 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Eymür says prosecutors should investigate Peker's claims.

The institutions have urged the Ministry of Justice to make a statement about the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in prisons.

Arrested for having reported on the hacked emails of the then Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Albayrak, journalists Kanaat and Öğreten will be paid damages as the ECtHR has concluded that their freedom of expression and press was violated.

Turkey deported journalist Ans Boersma in early 2019 after receiving intelligence from the Netherlands that she might have "terrorist connections."

It has been 500 days since university student Gülistan Doku went missing in Dersim province. Women have protested in the place where she was seen for the last time and reiterated the question: “Where is Gülistan Doku?”

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, the number of young people in neither education nor employment is 2 million 922 thousand.

Amid opposition parties’ demand for an investigation into the allegations of Sedat Peker, who is accused of leading a criminal organization, MHP Chair Bahçeli has targeted the opposition and said that his party “doesn’t care about the mafia.”

In the trial over the “Kobanî protests of October 6-8, 2014”, politicians had their second hearing at the Ankara 22nd Heavy Penal Court today, on May 18, 2021. The trial will continue on May 20.