The court board has ruled that Mutlu E. shall remain behind bars and adjourned the hearing until June 22. Attorney Eren Keskin has said, “We, as women, will once again be here on June 22. We will support Sibel.”

The Mor Çatı Women's Shelter Foundation has released its 2020 annual report.

A summary of proceedings has been issued against Independent İstanbul MP Ahmet Şık due to his statements during the Boğaziçi University protests against the appointed rector. The file sent to the Justice Ministry seeks lifting of his legislative immunity.

The main opposition party accuses the government of causing the Central Bank to run out of foreign exchange reserves and asks where the money has been spent.

In his general commentary attached to the report, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) Secretary General Coşkun Üsterci says, “Unfortunately, the new Human Rights Action Plan creates no hope or excitement in us."

President Erdoğan has commented on Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention: “If we absolutely need such a contract, we can draught one that is fairer, better, and stronger, call it the Ankara Convention, and go forward with that."

The government should take a rights-based approach and shouldn't reveal the people whom it provides assistance, says Hacer Foggo from the Deep Poverty Network.

The Center for Kurdish Progress has launched a petition demanding freedom for former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars in Edirne Prison since November 2016 despite an ECtHR ruling.

“We know that violence begins and ends in language,” says bianet Women and LGBTI+ editor Evrim Kepenek in an interview on bianet male violence monitoring reports: “Unfortunately, the violence in the language is mainly produced by politicians.”

Mehmet Özhaseki, the Vice Chair of the ruling AKP responsible for local administrations, has sent a circular to the AKP’s municipalities across the country and asked them to pay off citizens’ debts to shopkeepers.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s daily COVID-19 case number is 62,797. While 279 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours, 3,018 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Turkish Medical Association Chair Prof. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı has underlined that the ruling AKP cannot manage the pandemic: “Society must be enabled to say, ‘We don’t give up our right to life’.”