Preparing a preliminary proceedings report (a report issued ahead of a trial) for the retrial of Gezi defendants, the İstanbul 30th Heavy Penal Court has imposed an international travel ban on eight people. The first hearing will be held on May 21.

The share of fiber optic internet in broadband connections is 22 percent in Turkey whereas the OECD average is 28 percent.

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the coup staged by the military in Myanmar earlier today. Turkey’s embassy in the country has also urged the citizens to stay indoors and avoid travel unless necessary.

Releasing a figures-based overview of press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has indicated that over 200 journalists have been imprisoned in Turkey over the past five years.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that the failure to launch an investigation into the incident where DBP’s Sibel Çapraz was injured in a random shooting of the police in Hakkari in 2015 has violated her rights.

According to Boğaziçi University Kandilli Observatory, four successive earthquakes shook the Aegean Sea off the coast of İzmir province. The highest magnitude measured by the Observatory was 5.2.

İnce has said that he will launch his new party in the coming months.

With the recent snowfall and rainfall over the past few weeks, the fill rate of İstanbul’s dams has risen from 19.16 percent to 40.39 percent.

Amid allegations that he was summoned to the ruling AKP’s Central Office with a request for his resignation, Nevşehir Provincial Mayor Rasim Arı has resigned from office and the party, citing health problems as the reason for his resignation.

The Ministry of Health has announced that 128 people have died of COVID-19 in Turkey in the last 24 hours. While the number of daily cases is 6 thousand 562, the number of tests conducted in a day has dropped below 140 thousand.

Referred to the penal judgeship of peace on duty after giving his statement at the prosecutor’s office, İstanbul Esenyurt District Co-Chair of the HDP Ercan Sağlam has been arrested while Dilan Kılıç, the other Co-Chair, has been released.

Levent Pişkin, the attorney of arrested Boğaziçi University students: “This investigation is legally null and void. I say ‘legally’ because there was no warrant for detention or seizure in the file. The work subject to the investigation is not there, either.”

Taken into custody over a picture on display in an exhibition at the South Campus as part of the ongoing protests against the appointed rector, two students of Boğaziçi University have been arrested for “degrading or inciting the public to enmity or hatred.”

The court remanded Ayşe Gökkan in custody based on statements by anonymous witnesses.

The İstanbul Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has released a report on violations of rights faced by refugees in Turkey in 2020. According to the report, 1 million 732 thousand 44 Syrian people in Turkey are children.

The UK signed its first free trade agreement for the post-Brexit period with Turkey. The labor unions in both countries now demand its suspension until the government of Turkey “recognizes and respects the rights of working people and unions.”

A member of the project's board of experts said that he was asked to make changes in a scientific review report and received threats after refusing to do so.

According to the court verdict, mother Aynur Erzengin allegedly subjected her son to “alienation from his father.” The verdict has also indicated that what the child said was “against the natural flow of life.”

As the recently appointed judge who called Gezi a “traitorous insurrection has still not taken office, a temporary court board presided over the hearing of Berkin Elvan case. The prosecutor demands up to 9 years in prison for the defendant.

According to the Foreign Trade Statistics announced by the TurkStat for December 2020, Turkey’s exports decreased by 6.3 percent and imports increased by 4.3 percent in the period of January-December 2020.