Addressing a Parliamentary question to the Minister of Tourism and Culture, HDP Diyarbakır MP Paylan has asked how the historical Surp Toros Armenian Church was demolished despite being recognized as an “immovable that requires protection.”

The Human Rights Association (İHD) has released a statement about Yusuf Bilge Tunç and Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, whose fate and whereabouts have been unknown by their families: “Conduct an effective investigation into kidnappings.”

“He said that while they were staging a sit-in and chanting slogans, they were attacked and kicked on the floor by 10-15 prison wardens. When we went there for visitations, we also witnessed that prisoners were dragged on the floor.”

Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has released its statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Provinces in 2019. While İstanbul had the highest share with 30.7 percent, the last three provinces were Tunceli, Ardahan and Bayburt in the east.

A judge has been appointed to the Constitutional Court despite serving only 20 days at the Court of Cassation.

Amid MHP’s incessant calls for its closure, HDP's Co-Chairs have asked for an appointment from the main opposition CHP, Ali Babacan’s DEVA and Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Future parties and Felicity Party (SP).

Six law organizations have released a statement about Gökhan Güneş, who was forced to get in a car in İstanbul on January 20 and released six days later. In a statement yesterday, Güneş announced that he had been systematically tortured.

"If all goes well, we anticipate that we will be able to have our domestic vaccine in the summer at the latest," says Dr. Sezer Okay from the Vaccine Institute of Hacettepe University in the capital city of Ankara.

Mehmet Cengiz demanded one million lira in compensation from the newspaper.

While Turkey’s only procurement plan for the COVID-19 vaccine is with China’s Sinovac company and the country does not have a clear vaccination schedule, AKP’s President Erdoğan says that “Turkey has overcome the outbreak with the least hardship.”

The General Assembly of Turkey’s Parliament has ratified a motion extending the deployment of armed forces in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia and the Arabian Sea for another year until February 10, 2022.

The historical Surp Toros Church in Turkey’s western province of Kütaya has been destroyed after it came into the possession of a person.

The Ministry of Health has announced that 134 people have died of COVID-19 in Turkey in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 25,344 people. The number of critically ill patients has dropped below 1,800.

Men killed at least 284 women and at least 26 children, including babies in 2020. Men also inflicted violence on 792 women.

Gökhan Güneş, who describes himself as a "socialist worker," was kidnapped at a bus stop in İstanbul on January 20 and returned home after si days.

According to a recent report released by the Initiative for Freedom of Expression, one fifth of all prisoners in Turkey are either standing trial or already convicted of "terror" crimes.

"We don't hesitate to take the bull by the horns for the Turkish nation and bravely claim what we do," the MHP head has said.

Releasing a written statement, the European Free Alliance (EFA) has demanded the release of jailed politician Leyla Güven and political prisoners and called for an end to the isolation of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı Prison.

Four members of a family were injured by the police during a home raid in the southeastern Antep province.

Unable to get their wages, workers halted work at the construction site of Galataport, a controversial urban project on the Asian side of İstanbul.