The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) fixed at 19 percent, as was also the case last month: “All available instruments will be used in pursuit of the primary objective of price stability.”

Commenting on the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages in Turkey during the ‘full lockdown’, Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu has said, “There is no need to politicize this, there is no need to take an ideological attitude, this is a matter of health.”

According to the decision of the US Industry and Security Bureau, former Halkbank executive Atilla “may not, directly or indirectly, participate in any transaction involving any commodity, software or technology exported or to be exported from the US.”

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 304 people died of coronavirus and over 22 thousand people tested positive with over 250 thousand tests in a day. 3,378 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Villagers in the Black Sea province of Rize have been protesting a stone quarry project since late April.

In the trial over the Vartinis Massacre, the 1st Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation has acquitted three soldiers, while ruling that Hasköy Gendarmerie Commander Karaoğlu shall be put on trial again. Lawyer Karaçelik notes that he is not arrested.

Balıkesir Mayor says the area is "an empty land" and they will allocate it for tourism and housing.

It has been 49 years since Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, the leading figures of the 68 Generation, were executed. Police officers have intervened against the commemoration in the capital city of Ankara.

The Guaranteed Basic Income Saves Lives Platform has released a statement and recommended that five million people should be provided with a monthly basic income of 2,000 lira for an indefinite period of time.

"We are trying to take care of our children in pieces," "Everything is halfway," "I constantly hold my breath," "Wounds are opening in the souls of these children..." Parents working during the pandemic and lockdown have spoken to bianet.

Journalists were prevented from working on May Day after the Directorate General of Security issued a controversial circular prohibiting filming and photographing police officers during demonstrations.

The neighboring shopkeepers condemn the attack on the shops of Somalians in Ankara in mid-April. They say that the streets where the attack occurred are so busy thanks to the shops of Somalians, adding that they also benefit from this.

After Habertürk TV channel was targeted by the top MHP politicians over a broadcast regarding the party’s draft constitution, Editor-in-Chief Kürşad Oğuz and Ankara Representative Bülent Aydemir have resigned.

President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit for damages against main opposition CHP MP Erdoğdu, who said, “Erdoğan is the number one of criminal organization.” The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has also launched an investigation.

Hindered from covering the protests in Ankara on the 1st of May on the grounds of a recent circular issued by the Directorate General of Security, Yol TV reporter Özge Uyanık has filed a criminal complaint against the police officers.

In a phone call on May 5, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and Russia’s President Putin discussed the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic and the Sputnik V vaccine as well as the situation in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.

The academics of Boğaziçi University have listed the problems that have arisen since Melih Bulu was appointed as a rector by a Presidential decision.

Organized annually by P24, this year’s Mehmet Ali Birand Lectures hosted Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair and lawyer Eren Keskin, who talked about her struggle for human rights, the İHD, Özgür Gündem newspaper, the 1990s and today.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 356 people died of coronavirus and over 26 thousand people tested positive with less than 230 thousand tests in a day. 3,418 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Food engineer Bülent Şık stood trial after publicizing the results of the Ministry of Health's research on cancer cases and industrial pollution.