LGBTI+s were faced with attempted lynching in İstanbul’s Tophane neighbourhood; police told them, “Don’t exaggerate.” They have received a medical report documenting the battery and are now preparing to file a criminal complaint.

While the Health Ministry’s coronavirus vaccination campaign is moving apace, the desired vaccination rates have not yet been reached in some cities, especially in the Kurdish-majority ones. Mother language is reportedly a factor behind this.

Amnesty International has condemned the “baseless and arbitrary banning for the sixth consecutive year of İstanbul Pride in clear violation of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression and the use of unnecessary and excessive force.”

The Diyarbakır 12th Penal Court of First Instance has ruled that Hakkı Boltan shall be sentenced to 2 years, 17 days in prison on the grounds that he allegedly insulted President Erdoğan and the then PM Davutoğlu in his press statement during curfews.

By a vote of 3 to 2, the Council of State has rejected the requests for the stay of execution and annulment of the Presidential decision pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention, which will no longer be in force in the country as of July 1.

While the Health Ministry has reported 5,846 new coronavirus cases and 53 deaths in a day, Health Minister Koca has announced that the number of provinces where the Delta variant is diagnosed has increased to 26 out of 81.

13 NGOs and individual people have released a joint statement about the deadly armed attack against the HDP İzmir office: “We see the politicians who have polarized the society with a language of hate and violence as the perpetrators of Deniz Poyraz.”

Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed that the scale of corruption and informal economy has reached an unprecedented level in the country.

The drought caused by climate change and the decrease in precipitation have negatively affected the basin of Lake Van and the water sources in its surrounding area as well as agriculture and animal husbandry in the region.

"The colonial apparatus of this new world is the proposition of democracy that is detached from its original meaning," Bahçeli has said.

Both in the statements they gave and the pictures they drew, the two siblings talked about the abuse they had been subjected to. The release of the mother and the stepfather has caused a public outrage.

Police officers violently detained AFP photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, who was heard saying "I can't breathe" as officers kneeled on him.

The Constitutional Court has found the criteria of “membership” and “affiliation” for being discharged from public service against the Constitution. Discharged by a Statutory Decree, Kocaoğlu is also back in public service following a court ruling.

The academics from France working at Galatasaray University are required to know at least B2 level Turkish so that their residence and work permits will be renewed. The talks with the Embassy of France in Ankara have remained inconclusive.

The LGBTI+s who came together in Taksim for the 19th İstanbul Pride March were once again attacked by the police.

With an Interior Ministry circular sent to the governor’s offices of all 81 provinces, the flights from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka will be suspended until further notice starting from July 1.

Witnesses were heard at the second hearing of the trial over the killing of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu. Speaking about the day of the incident, witness Ustabaş said, “Those who went to the hospital to learn about his condition were attacked with bullets.”

The houses where trans women live in İstanbul have been sealed off. Legist Kerem Dikmen has noted that it is against the law. The Pride Week Committee has also stressed that it is not a coincidence that it has happened right after the Pride March.

Gathering in front of İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir Governor’s Offices, journalists will protest the police violence inflicted on their colleagues during the Pride March.

The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Turkey so far has topped 48 million. Health Minister Koca says that “though the rate of decrease in the number of cases has slowed down, it is not an obstacle to normalization.”