TTB Central Council member Erdoğdu says that the government mainly prefers burdening citizens with debt during the pandemic, thereby postponing the problems: “In the first wave of the pandemic, 2 million people used credit for the first time.”

Giving his statement as part of the investigation launched into the allegations about the assassination of journalist Kutlu Adalı in Cyprus in the 1990s, Atilla Peker, the brother of crime group leader Sedat Peker, has been released on probation.

One journalist was acquitted, two journalists won a case against Turkey at the ECtHR, and one journalist was released from house arrest after months.

The president praised those who attempted to attack Akşener in his hometown Rize last week.

HDP Agriculture Commission Spokesperson Turan says that farmers’ debt to public institutions and Agricultural Credit Cooperatives has topped 150 billion lira.

The president has said that the opposition shouldn't ask about how the Central Bank's foreign currency reserves of 128 billion dollars were spent.

Unsolved murders, disappearances, tortures... The struggle of rights organizations in Turkey for more than a quarter of a century... Rights defenders Eren Keskin and Akın Birdal have spoken to bianet.

According to the Road Traffic Accidents Statistics shared by the TurkStat for 2020, 150,275 traffic accidents involving death or injury occurred in Turkey last year, claiming the lives of 4,866 people and injuring over 226 thousand others.

Serço Ekşiyan, an underwater camera operator for 15 years, has captured the mucilage that covered the bottom of the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. The marine ecosystem is facing great danger, he says.

According to the report of Civil Society in the Penal System Association, the food offered to prisoners is cold and of poor quality, it is not hygienic or filling, meat is replaced by rice and pasta, the number and weight of bread in grams have been reduced.

The defendant has been fined for insulting a public official because of his duty. The court has deferred the pronouncement of the verdict.

According to the Presidential decision published in the Official Gazette, 10 new faculties have been opened at eight universities while one faculty and two vocational schools of three universities have been closed.

In his YouTube videos targeting current and former government officials, Peker explained how he and his brother had been involved in a failed attempt to assassinate the journalist from Cyprus.

Artists and stage laborers have been excluded from the “gradual normalization” steps that entered into force on June 1. They have been protesting on social media with the slogans “Lay claim to your stage” and “Don’t shut your eyes.”

The monthly press freedom report of main opposition CHP MP Çakırözer is marked by the obstructions faced by journalists during news follow up and the targeting remarks of Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu in May.

Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin has said that they are preparing the indictment against the HDP again. The indictment was previously returned to the Court of Cassation by the Constitutional Court.

Held in detention for eight days, the members of the Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) have been released.

The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) has appointed Vice Rector Prof. Fazıl Önder Sönmez as the acting dean of Boğaziçi University Faculty of Engineering.

Turkey has so far administered over 29.25 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to official figures. The WHO has also approved the vaccine of China’s Sinovac, one of the two vaccines currently used in Turkey, for emergency use.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 129 people died of coronavirus and 7,112 people tested positive with over 223 thousand tests in a day. 1,241 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.