The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has requested information from Turkey’s Justice Ministry about the situation of 24 journalists, including Melis Alphan, Kazım Kızıl, Elif Akgül, Hrant Dink, Levent Gültekin and Müyesser Yıldız.

Struggling for justice for her son Oğuz Arda Sel and 24 others who lost their lives in the Çorlu Train Massacre in 2018, Mısra Öz has been taken to the intensive care unit due to COVID-19. Her father has spoken to bianet.

A lawsuit has been filed against 97 people who joined in the protests against appointed rector Melih Bulu. The indictment has referred to the social media call “We will take it from here” made by the students subjected to police intervention on February 1.

Underlining that the attacks on İstanbul Convention are not independent of the attacks on women's rights in different countries of the world, Prof. Kandiyoti says, “Defending the İstanbul Convention is not a cultural, but a political struggle.”

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s daily COVID-19 case number is 55,802. While 318 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours, 3,275 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

More than 40 percent of the ruling AKP's women voters approve of the withdrawal while it's only 21.5 percent for the MHP's women voters, according to the survey.

"Our foreign minister put Dendias in his place," the president has said.

Several articles about former finance minister Berat Albayrak, Serhat Albayrak and Şule Albayrak have been banned due to "violation of personal rights."

Put on trial for “watching a lynching on the sidewalk”, Ayten Öztürk appeared before the judge. “You break the law if you rule for her continued arrest to hide torture,” said her attorney Şaraldı, addressing the court board at the hearing.

The Health and Social Service Laborers Union (SES) has held a press conference about the recent ban on healthcare workers’ right to take a leave of absence, retire and resign amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

According to a study conducted by the İstanbul Technical University, Esenler is the only district which has witnessed an increase in air pollution over the past year. Prof. Toros has said that carbon emissions have dropped as well.

Governors of Kocaeli and Denizli have banned the celebrations.

On April 21, the Constitutional Court will examine the application regarding the people killed in the basements of two buildings in Şırnak’s Cizre during the period of curfews. 189 people in total died in southeast Turkey during the curfews in 2015-2016.

As part of the investigation launched into the ‘Montreux declaration’, the prosecutor’s office has summoned 6 retired admirals and 1 retired general to depose and their houses have been searched. Electronic bracelets are now placed on released admirals.

Some 20 million people need to be vaccinated in the next one-and-a-half months to achieve the vaccination of the population over the age of 40.

According to a Central Bank regulation, payment and electronic money institutions will not be able to mediate platforms that offer trading, custody, transfer, or issuance services for crypto assets besides mediating fund transfers from them.

26 MPs of the main opposition CHP have underlined that difference between the labor force statistics unveiled by the state agency TurkStat and DİSK labor confederation and requested that the real unemployment in Turkey be inquired by the Parliament.

Main opposition CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Engin Altay has made a statement about the summaries of proceedings seeking to lift the immunity of eight CHP MPs, including CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu, and two HDP MPs.

In banners put up in different parts of İstanbul, it is said, “We don’t give up the İstanbul Convention” in protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the convention by a Presidential Decision in March.

Fabien Azoulay, a homosexual and Jewish citizen of France, has been in prison in Turkey for the last 4 years.