Addressing artists in a live broadcast, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, "Snap election, the presidential system is not right and all... Leave it be, it is our job. You wouldn't understand it." Several artists have denounced these remarks on social media.

According to a recent survey conducted by Ipsos, the majority of parents approve the decision to resume in-class education in Turkey as of September 6, but they think that in-class education will not begin as planned due to the increasing number of cases.

The president was mocked on Twitter after it was seen that he was reading answers from a teleprompter and his aides were whispering suggestions at him.

The agreement signed by the central banks of Turkey and South Korea allows for the exchange of local currencies of up to 2.3 trillion Korean won or 17.5 billion Turkish Liras, which accounts for approximately 2 billion US dollars.

“Over 80 percent of intensive care patients are either unvaccinated or have received only the first dose,” says Edirne Medical Chamber Chair Altun.

Deputy Interior Minister İnce has announced that 318 people in Bartın, 210 people in Kastamonu and 106 people in Sinop have been evacuated by helicopters and vehicles.

HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay has said that the perpetrators who attack Kurds are protected and that the government is hostile to Kurds.

At its session where CHP’s İlhan Taşçı was voted out of the meeting, Turkey’s media authority RTÜK fined KRT, Fox TV, Habertürk, Halk TV and TELE 1. Fox TV was fined because the reporter said, “The flames are coming so fast, it is like a nightmare…”

HDP's Hatimoğulları has raised concerns that though it has been 9 months since an earthquake hit İzmir, no progress has been made in binding up the wounds. She has addressed a Parliamentary question to the Minister of Environment and Urbanization.

Noting that the cancellation of their annual leaves is great injustice to health workers, the Antalya Medical Chamber says that the number of COVID-19 cases is higher than the official figures and some intensive care units are jam-full in the province.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 278 thousand tests were conducted, 27,356 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 128 people died of the disease and 1,296,688 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Tensions have risen in Ankara's Altındağ district after an 18-year-old man was killed in a knife fight with refugees.

Washington and Ankara have been discussing a plan for Turkey to continue running the Kabul airport after the US leaves Afghanistan.

Claims for damages filed by the families of those who lost their lives and suffered injuries in the bombings have been rejected.

There are about 15 million young people who live in Turkey, including 1.7 million young refugees. Identifying Turkey as their home country, more than 55 percent of young refugees do not want to return to their home country.

With his father and two brothers killed in an attack by the relatives and security guards of a ruling AKP MP in Urfa, Ferit Şenyaşar and his mother Emine Şenyaşar have been seeking justice by staging a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse.

"When the time comes, we'll take down all of you," AKP member Emrah Çelik said in a message he sent to the journalist. Çelik's photos with severed heads in Syria had surfaced in 2019.

After it was reported that a refugee from Syria stabbed two people in the capital city of Ankara, the residents of the neighborhood have damaged the houses, workplaces and vehicles of refugees in the neighborhood in Altındağ.

Released to house arrest by the judgeship a day before, male suspect Yusuf G. has been arrested upon the appeal of the prosecutor’s office against his release as part of the investigation into the “sexual assault” of 18-year-old Eda Nur Kaplan.

The Board of Switzerland-based Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has decided to award the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2021 to artist Gülsün Karamustafa, “whose work spans multiple genres including painting, installation, video and performance.”