The students of Middle East Technical University have put up tents and started keeping watch near the campus stairs that they painted in rainbow colors so that the METU administration will not paint over them again.

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 out of intensive care, where she was treated for COVID-19.

Four people said to be working there have lost their lives in a fire that broke out in a warehouse in Arnavutköy district in İstanbul.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 347 people died of coronavirus and over 38 thousand people tested positive with over 260 thousand tests conducted in a day. 3,590 COVID-19 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Joe Biden has become the first US president in decades to call the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I a genocide.

HDP deputy Garo Paylan has submitted a law proposal for the recognition of the genocide.

The number of cases in İstanbul, the hardest-hit city of the country, had dropped by 20 percent recently, according to the health minister.

The US president reportedly told Erdoğan that he will formally recognize the Armenian Genocide tomorrow.

The cryptocurrency trading platform canceled transactions and its owner left the country in what might be one of the largest frauds in the history of Turkey.

“They develop discriminatory narratives against the aged because they are not vaccinated,” says Prof. Gündüz-Hoşgör, underlining that a significant part of them live in deprivation to such an extent that they cannot apply for vaccination.

Ceremonies are held to mark April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in the 101th anniversary of the establishment of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The country-wide COVID-19 curfew is also in effect.

The Scientific Advisory Board of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM) has stated that “after March 1, 2021, 3 thousand 424 additional deaths occurred in the city”, raising concerns that “71.4 percent of ICUs are full as of April 19.”

With a Presidential decision published in the Official Gazette, the period of short time work allowance has been extended till June 30, 2021. Introduced to curb the negative effects of the pandemic, the payment was ended on March 31.

Speaking at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate on World Earth Day, President Erdoğan said that the “Nation’s Gardens” project increased green spaces and sink capacities, adding that “they planted a total of 5.1 billion saplings for the last 18 years.”

Summoned to depose for "supporting" the declaration of 104 retired admirals, six of the seven retired soldiers have been released on probation while one soldier could not give his statement as he was in treatment at hospital.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has adopted a resolution on “the functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey”, calling on the country to “to put an end to laws and practices that contravene democratic standards.”

Selen Yüksel tells the story of babies who get poisoned because they drink tap water and the ones who are hospitalized because they eat expired baby formula. They are all from İstanbul’s Ataşehir, Beyoğlu, Çekmeköy, Fatih, Şişli, Ümraniye...

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 354 people died of coronavirus and over 54 thousand people tested positive in a day. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has also addressed the public following the Science Board meeting.

The association has released the result of its monthly survey among family doctors.

In its annual report on religious freedom, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has mentioned Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque, defining it as “a move that many denounced as divisive and hostile to Turkey’s religious minorities.”