The IPI has criticized the recent appointments to the state-run TRT’s executive board by a Presidential decree, raising concerns that it has been “turned into an outlet whose primary mission is to spread state propaganda.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has sent a letter to Presidency’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun. Calling for a press card reform, the Committee has said, “We urge you to abandon your hostile rhetoric toward journalists in Turkey.”

Speaking about the fires in Turkey's southern provinces, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Pakdemirli has announced that the efforts to put out the forest fires razing Aydıncık district in Mersin and Hassa district in Hatay are still underway.

Chanting the slogan “We won't turn away from this path,” Boğaziçi University students have announced that their resistance will continue after the dismissal of appointed rector Bulu. They have made a call for a demonstration in Kadıköy today.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 232 thousand tests were conducted, 7,304 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 48 people died of the disease.

The dismissed rector has closed his Instagram account. He initially did not believe that he was sacked and posted an Instagram story mocking the news.

"This is only the beginning. We have seen the weakness of the government, we will continue the struggle," a student has said.

Shortly after Melih Bulu, the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, was dismissed by a Presidential decree, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) has appointed Bulu’s appointed vice rector as the acting rector of Boğaziçi University.

Prof. Nilgün Toker, a political philosopher from the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Pandemic Working Group, has attended a video discussion of the TTB on “What we are curious about during the pandemic.”

Appointed as the rector of Boğaziçi University by a Presidential decree on January 2, Melih Bulu has been dismissed by another Presidential decree. The students and academics of the university have been protesting his appointment for over 6 months.

Turkey's Black Sea province of Rize has been hit by flooding and landslides due to heavy rainfall. Six people have lost their lives. Two people are still missing.

Şenol Kaya, the Sub-Governor of Şarköy district in Tekirdağ province, has a restraining order issued against local journalist Nuri Çağlar for a period of 1 month following the news that he reported.

After his prison sentence on 3 different charges for inflicting violence on musician Sıla was overturned, actor Ahmet Kural has been once again sentenced to 1 year, 4 months, 20 days in prison. The sentence has been deferred due to “good conduct.”

Health Minister Koca has stated that COVID-19 case numbers have increased by a few times in the cities with low vaccination rates. Saying that new restrictions are not on their agenda, he has urged people to avoid contact during Eid al-Adha.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 238 thousand tests were conducted, 6,907 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, 43 people died of the disease and over 1.2 million vaccine doses were administered in a day.

Acting in the interests of the "FETÖ," three police chiefs ensured the murder took place and destroyed evidence, according to the court.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) fixed at 19 percent, which was increased from 17 percent to this rate at its meeting in March 2021.

The number of workers killed in occupational homicides, including refugee workers, in the first half of the year reached 1,155, according to İSİG reports.

In their statements at the prosecutor’s office over the assassination of Diyarbakır Bar Chair Tahir Elçi, witnesses said that they saw the moment when Elçi was shot. At today’s hearing, they said that they did not see it.

The appeals court has upheld the ruling because the "lapse of time is imminent" in the case concerning 22 extrajudicial killings.