The court has announced its justified decision in the case of the 2007 killing of Festus Okey, a refugee from Nigeria, at a police station.

Underlining that the process will not be limited to COVID-19, the TTB has announced that it has reorganized its COVID-19 Monitoring Board as the Pandemic Working Group. There are software developers and social scientists in the new group.

Another access block has been imposed on the Mezopotamya Agency (MA) website.

Even if Turkey is no longer the world's biggest jailer of journalists, the government continued to suppress critical journalism through regulatory bodies and judicial action, says the RSF.

While the people aged 65 and over have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as one of the first priority groups, there are still restrictive measures specifically targeting them. Some 65+ people and physicians have been objecting to this practice.

Ahead of the trial over the death of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu on April 21, the Trabzon Governor’s Office has banned all events, except for the ones approved by the governor’s and sub-governor’s offices, “due to COVID-19” and “to prevent crimes.”

Detailing Diyarbakır’s history of production and trade, the online exhibition of “The history of production: Crossroads, cornucopia and politics” is jointly held by Anadolu Kültür and Diyarbakır Association for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets.

The İHD has announced that a refugee who has international protection status is not given his prematurely born baby since he cannot meet the treatment expenses. He has noted that all applications to the public hospital have remained inconclusive.

According to the April 2021 report of the International Monetary Fund, Turkey’s inflation rate is 6.5 times higher than the European average, which is 2.1 percent.

According to official data, 341 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in a day. Health Minister Koca has also announced the ICU occupancy rates in the provinces that face the highest rise in virus cases in Turkey.

Bolaç is also charged with insulting judicial authorities because of retweeting another user's tweet.

All events and demonstrations will be banned in the city until May 17.

Summoned to depose at the prosecutor’s office on charge of “insulting the President”, theater actor Genco Erkal has addressed the reporters after leaving the courthouse: “I said I am against the restriction of freedom of expression.”

After it was revealed that only a few of the dozens of people who were sent to Germany as part of an environmental project returned to the country, it was understood that it wasn't the only such incident.

The police intervened against the dismissed workers of Sinbo, a company producing small home appliances, who wanted to make a press statement in front of the factory in İstanbul. Five people, including three journalists, have been detained.

Having resigned from the HDP in May 2020, Independent İstanbul MP Ahmet Şık has joined the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP), which has brought the total number of Parliamentary seats of the party to three, together with Erkan Baş and Barış Atay.

According to the official data of the Health Ministry, the daily number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths has quadrupled and the number of critically ill patients has doubled in Turkey over the past month.

Artists İzinsiz (Unpermitted) and Canavar (Monster) have painted a picture in memory of the people who have lost their lives due to economic hardships during the pandemic. They have named their work “The Picture of Unhappiness”.

In addition to the loss of smell and taste, a sudden hearing loss may also be caused by Covid-19, suggests a new peer-reviewed study carried out in Turkey.

Sociologist Slavoj Žižek has said, “Kurds... You have created a utopia that actually exists with an intellectual community. You are not only a symbol of resistance, but also the symbol of establishing a new order.”