"We will rapidly take steps to enrich our country and sacred city with Kanal Istanbul," Minister Kurum has said.

Despite the evidence indicating that the defendants committed the offense charged, the prosecutor has demanded their acquittal. The families whose children were disappeared in the 1990s have denounced the prosecutor’s opinion.

"The democratic opposition should be able to put a more serious pressure on the ruling power," the DİB has said.

Raising concerns over “double standards”, main opposition CHP MP Emre has submitted a legislative proposal foreseeing the cancellation of administrative fines imposed on people during the coronavirus outbreak and refund of the already paid fines.

"The fines imposed on newspapers and televisions that pursue the truth both destroy freedom of the press and take away our right to information," MP Çakırözer has said.

Main opposition CHP MP Murat Emir has raised concerns about the contradictions between the statements of the Health Minister and BioNTech company about the number of vaccine doses that arrived in Turkey in the first batch and the dates of delivery.

The Kurdish voters' trust in politics has decreased and opposition parties' voters tend to disapprove of the closure case against the party and the revocation of Gergerlioğlu's deputyship, according to the survey.

According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, over the past week, 21 thousand 495 people faced legal and/or administrative action in Turkey for failing to comply with the weeknight and weekend curfews as part of COVID-19 measures.

Having appealed against the appointment of Melih Bulu as a rector to Boğaziçi, the academics of the university have made another application to the Council of State, requesting the annulment of the Presidential decision opening two new faculties.

Sixty-six percent of respondents predict that the situation regarding freedom of expression will be worse or much worse in the next five years, according to a survey among artists.

Women in several provinces across Turkey took to the squares to protest the Presidential decision pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention.

Lawyers from the Diyarbakır Bar Association have applied to the Ministry of Interior and said that “an application developed to protect women needs to offer services in the languages existing and spoken in the country.”

Speaking before the Party Assembly meeting, HDP Co-Chair Sancar said, “HDP is a strong line of thought. For this reason, they cannot close the HDP. The effort to close it is just an open confession of the fact that their own power is coming to an end.”

After Milli Gazete (National Newspaper) targeted the “Gender Equality” course, defining it as “fundamentally rejecting the original disposition”, the University of Health Sciences has launched an inquiry into the course.

Turkey’s Ministry of Health has announced that 29,058 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 153 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours. 1,968 coronavirus patients are reportedly in critical condition.

In his last speeches before his assassination killing, Dink had said, "This is an operation of the depth of the state to make me know my place," the family recalled.

The president has said that Turkey's withdrawal from the Council of Europe treaty to combat violence against women is a "done deal."

The trial of public officials over the killing of journalist Hrant Dink has ended in the acquittal of 37 defendants and conviction of 26. Hakan Bakırcıoğlu, Bülent Aydın, Erol Önderoğlu and Yetvart Danzikyan have made statements about the ruling.

HDP's Günay has made remarks on the closure case against the party, Gergerlioğlu's detention, the İstanbul Convention and PKK leader Öcalan.

A group of students came to the İstanbul Courthouse to support their friends detained for carrying rainbow flags at Boğaziçi University during the protests against the appointed rector. They have also been detained; police intervention is still ongoing.