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.

Having distributed copies of Şilan Delipalta’s letter from prison to people, two students have been placed under house arrest. Delipalta was previously arrested after joining the protests against the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University.

While Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the country’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 28,138 people, the country has reported 8,104 new infections with less than 120 thousand COVID-19 tests in a day.

Albayrak is accused of causing the Central Bank to run out of foreign exchange reserves.

While Gergerlioğlu has announced that he will appeal against the Court of Cassation’s ruling, the Right and Justice Platform has also released a statement, calling for solidarity with the HDP MP whose prison sentence has recently been upheld.

"The logic-defying charges against me with an indictment that was prepared seven years later, especially the allegation that 'I acted upon instructions' is extremely serious spiritual violence," says Erdal.

In the trial over the killing of Fatma Şengül in İstanbul, the upper court has overturned the local court verdict and reversed the sentence reduction given to defendant Zeynel Akbaş due to “unjust provocation.”

HDP MP Dilan Dirayet Taşdemir has announced that she will file a criminal complaint against Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, who alleged that she had gone to Gare. Shortly after these remarks, an investigation was launched against the MP.

The writers' association has said that it has awarded Buğra because of her reactions after being targeted by the president over the Boğaziçi University protests.

Linguists, associations and writers working in and on Kurdish as well as HDP Co-Chair Sancar and DBP Co-Chairs Bayındır and Aydeniz have met in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır in the wake of International Mother Language Day.

Over the past week, a total of 31 thousand 197 people have faced administrative and/or legal action for failing to abide by the countrywide weeknight and weekend curfews introduced to curb the spread of the COVID-19.