Main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has reiterated his five questions to President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan regarding the death of 13 people in Gare in Iraq’s north: “What did you do to rescue them for 5.5 years?”

Taken into custody over his social media message about AKP Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin, lawyer Mert Yaşar has been arrested on charge of “insulting the President.”

In a written statement, EU Lead Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Stano has raised concerns about the “continuing pressure against the HDP and several of its members”, calling on Turkey to “safeguard its democratic system.”

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby has said, “Turkey had multiple opportunities over the last decade to purchase the Patriot defense system from the United States, and instead chose the S-400, which provides Russia revenue, access, and influence.”

Ağrı MP Berdan Öztürk is investigated over a speech while Van MPs Sezai Temelli, Muazzez Orhan Işık, Tayip Temel and Murat Sarısaç face an investigation over their social media messages.

Amid ongoing talks about a gradual normalization in Turkey as of March 1, the Health Ministry has reported 9,107 new coronavirus cases in a day, which marks the highest daily cases since January 13, 2021.

US philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler and Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Central Council Chair Şebnem Korur Fincancı will give online courses to Boğaziçi University students amid ongoing protests against the appointed rector.

After Kadıköy Municipality, the workers of Maltepe Municipality in İstanbul have gone on strike as the parties could not reach an agreement during collective bargaining.

A person was given a judicial fine for criticizing a politician who praised Kenan Evren.

After Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu targeted former Boğaziçi University rector Prof. Üstün Ergüder over the ongoing protests against the appointed rector, 3,453 citizens have released a joint statement of support for the academic.

Following the ‘cartoon’ crisis between Turkey and France, the academics of Galatasaray University are now required, for the first time, to pass a language test. The academics have released a joint declaration in response.

Less than 10 percent of the guests on discussion programs were women in the second half of the last year, according to a new report by KA.DER.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that the right to personal liberty and security of journalist Hakan Aygün has been violated by his arrest over a tweet containing a wordplay with IBAN and "iman," which means "faith" in Turkish in a religious context.

4-year-old Zeynep Meryem Özlek, on her way to a market with her mother and two siblings, was hit by a concrete mixer driven C.Ç. while she was crossing the street.

Four employees of Özgür Gündem received prison sentences, reports about Berat Albayrak were banned, 48 journalists stood trial in two weeks.

With her literary works brought against her as criminal evidence, writer Şimşek says that she was subjected to strip search and not given water for hours while she was in detention at Malatya Security Directorate.

Turkey’s Health Minister Koca has shared the weekly statistics as to the number of COVID-19 cases per 100 thousand people. While no significant increase has been observed in 3 major cities, there has been an increase in the Black Sea region.

Shortly after an investigation was launched against lawyer Mert Yaşar over his social media message about ruling AKP’s Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin, Yaşar has been taken into custody in İstanbul.

Meriç Eyüboğlu, the attorney of former bianet reporter Beyza Kural, has spoken to bianet about the Constitutional Court’s ruling of right violation given for the police violence that Kural was subjected to while covering a students’ protest in 2015.

The Governor’s Office of Malatya has announced that the 13th person killed by the PKK in Gare was Joytar Muhsib Hussein from Iraq.