The Ankara 6th Administrative Court has annulled the decision of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization that allowed buildings such as car parks and wedding halls as part of a landscape project in the Atatürk Forest Farm.

Turkey will procure 30 million doses of the BioNTech vaccine next month, according to the health minister.

After Interior Minister Soylu filed a criminal complaint in the wake of two videos posted by Peker, Hadi Özışık has been dismissed from tv100 and Habertürk as a commentator, while Süleyman Özışık will no longer write for Türkiye newspaper.

The Human Rights Ambassador of France and the Human Rights Commissioner of Germany have released a joint statement about the continued arrested of rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala.

Wastes in the ethylene polymer group made up 74 percent of Turkey's plastic waste import last year.

In a letter to the Ministry of Health, the YÖK has requested that the academic and administrative staff of institutions of higher education and the students in formal education be vaccinated against coronavirus by September 2021.

On the occasion of May 19 Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu has prepared a report on Turkey’s youth, raising concerns about the increasing number of suicides related to unemployment and poverty.

Speaking about the allegations of Sedat Peker, Interior Minister Soylu has said that it was not him who gave Peker a police guard, adding that he has withdrawn the guard when he came into office as the Minister of Interior.

The Foreign Ministry has released a written statement regarding the adoption of the European Parliament’s 2019-2020 Report on Turkey: “The wording in the report is trying to open the future of Turkey's accession negotiations to discussion.”

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 233 people died of coronavirus and 11,553 people tested positive with over 218 thousand tests in a day. 2,162 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

The interior minister previously said he would accept any punishment if contact between him and Sedat Peker was proven.

Yelda Kaharman, an 18-year-old student and a local journalist from Kyrgyzstan, was found dead at home in March 2019. Accusations against AKP deputy Tolga Ağar about the incident have resurfaced after crime leader Sedat Peker's videos.

Today marks the 102nd year since 353 thousand people were massacred, thousands of others were exiled and the Greek culture was destroyed.

Accused of leading a criminal organization, Peker has shared the recordings of his two video calls with journalist Hadi Özışık, who denied that he had mediated between Peker and Interior Minister Soylu. Soylu has said that he will file a criminal complaint.

Placed under house arrest after being detained as part of the operations against the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), journalist Pınar Gayıp has been released from house arrest.

Armeni̇a has filed an inter-state case against Turkey, complaining that “Turkey provided assistance to the Azerbaijani armed forces during the conflict” in Nagorno-Karabakh in September-November 2020.

The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the rights of football player Deniz Naki, who was fined due to his social media posts in 2016, and the rights of Amedspor football club, which was fined due to ‘ideological cheers’, have been violated.

The Health Minister has shared the weekly provincial COVID-19 rates. The new numbers have shown that the number of cases per 100,000 people was nearly 185 in Istanbul and over 152 in the capital city of Ankara on May 8-14.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 203 people died of coronavirus and 11,937 people tested positive with over 217 thousand tests in a day. 2,232 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Eymür says prosecutors should investigate Peker's claims.