A recent report released by the Center for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom has found that only five percent of the students graduating from communication faculties every year can find a job in the media sector in Turkey.

The TEMA Foundation has reportedly turned down donations by several companies for its forestation campaign amid the massive wildfires blazing in the country's south and southwest.

Amid the lack of aerial response, fires that are extinguished during the day start again at night, says bianet's Evren Gönül, who voluntarily participates in firefighting efforts.

The Municipality of Milas has announced that as the flames have approached Bayırköy, the teams have stepped up their efforts around the Yeniköy Thermal Power Plant. The Municipality has announced that 16,009 hectares of land have burned so far.

YouTube has activated its information panel about some TV channels in Turkey. While it labelled the state channel TRT as a “public broadcaster” and A Haber news channel as “funded by Turkish government”, it has removed the label on ATV.

AFP photojournalist Yasin Akgül says, “When we went to the Kemerköy Thermal Power Plant to report on its current condition and surrounding area, the gendarmerie told us, ‘We have a list, you cannot enter as you are not on that list’.”

After Ziya Selçuk resigned from office, Prof. Mahmut Özer has been appointed as Turkey’s new Minister of National Education. President and ruling AKP Chair has also appointed three deputy ministers.

As Southeast Europe is currently experiencing heatwave conditions, the fire danger remains high in the area, especially across much of Turkey and around the Mediterranean, according to the CAMS.

While the live broadcast of Halk TV was ongoing with the participation of journalists İsmail Saymaz and Murat Ağırel, Marmaris Mayor Mehmet Oktay and lawyer Salim Şen, a group attacked the broadcast at around 12.30 am.

While 191 fires that broke out in Turkey’s 44 provinces in 10 days have been taken under control, one person in Muğla and seven people in Antalya have lost their lives so far, along with several other losses of animals’ lives.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 245 thousand tests were conducted, 24,297 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 108 people died of the disease and 571,860 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

“Olive trees are in danger”, “Dogs, cats… There are no living creatures left”, “Our neighboring villages were on fire, we saved them”, “If planes had worked till the evening, the fire would have died out…” 13 neighborhood heads from Manavgat speak to bianet.

A citizen grazing cattle in the area found the dead body of the unidentified refugee from Afghanistan in the evening hours. The body has been taken to the Van Regional Training and Research Hospital for autopsy.

Mehmet Altun, the murder suspect of seven people from the Dedeoğulları family in Konya according to the security camera footage, has been arrested. Crime scene and autopsy reports of the massacre have also come out.

Journalist Ahmet Kanbal faces up to three years in prison for "marking a counterterrorism official as a target."

Speaking about the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Diyarbakır, Medical Chamber Chair Turan says, “The number of inpatients has hit 300. We have 80 patients in intensive care. 85 percent of intensive care patients are unvaccinated.”

The Van Labor and Democracy Platform has launched an aid campaign for Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van, which has been hit by heavy rainfall and floods, leading to the death of 900 animals and collapse of dozens of houses.

The two countries have signed an agreement for a grant for the fourth time in five years.

Ümitcan U., the chief suspect of Aleyna Çakır’s death, has been taken into custody over the death of Esra Hankulu.

Having lost her spouse and two sons in an attack by the security guards and relatives of ruling AKP’s İbrahim Halil Yıldız, Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have been on a justice watch in front of the Urfa Courthouse for the last 150 days.