Four people and scores of animals have died in the fires that erupted in 21 provinces throughout Turkey. Authorities don't rule out "sabotage."

Protesting the failure to announce the data on İzmir’s air quality, CHP MP Bakan has said, “If the air quality is measured 24/7, why has this data not been shared for 5 years? Then, it means that you are hiding something.”

Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper Aykut Küçükkaya has resigned, announcing that Cumhuriyet Foundation Chair Alev Coşkun pressured him into forcing the editors to resign from the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS).

The Governor’s Offices of İzmir and Balıkesir have announced that entries to the forests in the provinces have been temporarily forbidden. A similar decision has also been given for a national park in Aydın province.

HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has talked about the recently escalating xenophobia: “We say ‘no’ to war; peace is our path. We will never give credence to racism.”

HDP MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Justice Gül about the trial over the assassination of journalist Musa Anter in 1992, underlining that the requests of the court are left unanswered.

Retired teacher Metin Lokumcu’s son Ulaş Lokumcu and lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu have spoken to bianet about the trial over the death of Metin Lokumcu, who lost his life after being affected by the pepper gas used during a police intervention into a protest.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 261 thousand tests were conducted, 22,161 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 60 people died of the disease and 1,336,724 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Malicious groups that threaten Turkey's stability and unity use social media to spread disinformation, Altun has said.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair and lawyer Eren Keskin says, “Even though there is a finding of abuse in the Forensic Medical report, the father put on trial over abuse has been released on probation.”

The Ministry of Labor and Social Services has released figures regarding monetary assistance for employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

Heavy rainfall in Turkey’s eastern province of Van has led to a flood. While two shepherds are missing, dozens of people have been stranded in the flood-hit region.

After Antalya, forest fires broke out in multiple locations in Adana, Mersin and Osmaniye.

While the fire in Manavgat has been taken under control, the efforts to put out the fire in Akseki are ongoing from both air and ground. An 82-year-old person has lost his life due to the smoke in Akseki three others have died in Manavgat.

Addressing people in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Ağrı, HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has called on them to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Sancar has also said that the HDP will “bring the Kurdî alliance to the widest possible extent.”

Drawing attention to the Delta variant’s rate of transmission, Dr. Nesanır from the TTB Pandemic Working Group warns that if measures are not taken and the rate of vaccination is not increased, the Delta will be the dominant variant in Turkey.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 257 thousand tests were conducted, 22,291 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 76 people died of the disease and 1,077,627 vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Among the hospitalized patients, the share of the unvaccinated is 95 percent, the minister of health has said.

A complaint filed three months ago was put on the agenda of the media authority today, an opposition member of RTÜK has said.

Fires have erupted and quickly spread in the neighborhoods of Kavaklı, Sarılar, Kalemler and Yeniköy in Manavgat. Antalya Mayor Böcek notes that he has never seen such a fire while Sub-Governor says that “the fire is far away from the tourism region.”