An academic has requested to be exempted from the board of experts set up for Canal (Kanal) İstanbul, the government's controversial project aiming to link the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea.

Protests of Boğaziçi students and academics against the appointed rector are still ongoing. As the students’ slogans were heard in an online meeting attended by rector Bulu, the police and security guards closed the space in front of the rector’s office.

With the new ruling, none of the defendants will go back to prison for the 2014 coal mine explosion that killed 301 workers.

Energy Minister Dönmez has answered the Parliamentary question of CHP MP Gürer. While he previously said that no mining licenses were given for forest areas, he now says that the related permits are given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

The general director of the fund has said that it has 1 million Euro of debt with a capital of 33 billion dollars.

The MAK research company has shared the results of its elections polls conducted on January 14-26. The People’s Alliance of the ruling AKP-MHP would get less than half of the votes if Turkey had a general election tomorrow.

After the court of appeals overturned the acquittals in Gezi trial, a statement has been released on #DefendingGezi social media account: “Gezi is stainless, Gezi is the people.”

Arrested while protesting for her reinstatement, Acun Karadağ, a teacher discharged from public service, has been released. The court has ruled that the other protestors Alev Şahin, Mehmet Dersulu and Nazan Bozkurt shall remain behind bars.

The imam of a mosque affiliated with Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs will be deported from Belgium over his homophobic remarks.

Turkey has failed to implement a number of ECtHR and Constitutional decisions over the past few years.

After the Minimum Wage Determination Commission determined the minimum wage as 2,825 lira in 2021, the DİSK visited the main opposition CHP and HDP, expressing the confederation's request for exempting the minimum wage from tax cuts.

"We will continue to follow the developments in technology, both in our country and in the world," the president said after his conversation with Musk.

The CSUN factory, a manufacturer of solar panels, was opened in 2012 with the incentive of the ruling AKP. Six years later, its managers left Turkey and the factory was closed. Over 400 workers have not been paid their wages or severance since then.

Karaköprü Mayor Metin Baydilli says that a prototype of the war robot is displayed in the toy museum “to set children an example.”

As part of the investigation launched into the physical assault on Future Party Vice Chair Selçuk Özdağ, four suspects have been detained. Two people were previously arrested as part of the same investigation.

The Ministry of Health has announced that 132 people have died of COVID-19 in Turkey in the last 24 hours. Health Minister Koca has stated that the vaccination of people aged over 75 will start as of January 28.

After an arrest warrant was issued against Free Women’s Movement (TJA) Term Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan, she has been detained in Diyarbakır.

No public officials have stood trial for the bombings despite evidence indicating neglect of duty, lawyers say.

As part of the “Don’t Dig Campaign”, 68 ecology organizations from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus held a press conference against ecological destruction and war threat and made a call to end the fossil fuel explorations in their region.

The Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation has released its “Outbreak and Violence Against Women Report” for the last two months of 2020.