While agreeing to comply with the country's new social media law, Facebook has said that it will withdraw its representative if it is asked to take actions that violate its Community Standards.

In the wake of recent attacks targeting opposition politicians and critical journalists in Turkey, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Bahçeli has threatened Future Party Chair Ahmet Davutoğlu and columnists Taha Akyol, Yıldıray Oğur and Elif Çakır.

HDP MP Ersoy has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Education Selçuk regarding the academic who was arrested for “online solicitation of a minor,” but was working as the head of a psychology department at a university in İstanbul.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed a member of his party as the head of Boğaziçi University on January 2.

An online petition demands the release of Dr. Selçuk Mızraklı, the dismissed Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, as well as other jailed politicians in Turkey.

During a visit to Japan in 2019, President Erdoğan had praised the idea of "women's universities" and ordered his aides to work for its implementation in Turkey.

Arrested for having reported on Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were thrown from a helicopter and tortured by soldiers in Van, Adnan Bilen, Cemil Uğur, Şehriban Abi and Nazan Sala have been behind bars for 101 days, with no indictment.

Adapted from the book of Jerzy Kosiński, “The Painted Bird” of Václav Marhoul has been named the best foreign film of 2020 by the Film Critics Association (SİYAD).

The food prices in Turkey have seen an increase of 20.6 percent over the past year, which makes the country ranks second after Argentina among developing countries.

We have spoken with HDP deputies Paylan and Temelli about the 2014 protests and the new indictment into the incidents.

Minister of Education Selçuk has announced that Turkey is planning to reopen schools on February 15: “The decision on possible scenarios of school reopening will be decided and shared with the public 10 days before the scheduled reopening date.”

Linguist and historian Noam Chomsky: “It may be different from Trump. But one should not expect too much. I do not think that Biden will be as brutal as Trump. I do not think that he would approve of the killing of Kurds like Trump.”

The Ankara Security Directorate has announced that two people have been detained over the attack on Future Party Vice Chair Selçuk Özdağ in front of his house on January 15. The security teams are still working to catch the other suspects.

Main opposition CHP Eskişehir MP Utku Çakırözer has raised concerns that 34 journalists were assaulted in Turkey in 2019, 17 journalists were assaulted in 2020 and five journalists were assaulted in the first 15 days of this year.

Detained as part of the operations against the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), five people have been arrested, five people have been placed under house arrest and 37 people have been released on probation.

The right to a fair trial, with 63.3 percent, ranks first when the rulings of right violation are distributed by rights and freedoms. This right violation is followed by property rights with 19.4 percent and right to freedom of expression with 4.2 percent.

Amid protests against the appointment of Bulu as the new president of Boğaziçi, 2,314 academics from 52 countries have signed a joint statement: “We stand with Boğaziçi University students and faculty in their struggle for academic freedom and autonomy.”

According to a report prepared by main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu, 2,123 people were detained during events and demonstrations, 44 people were arrested and 294 people were convicted in trials over meetings and demonstrations in 2020.

While Turkey’s Health Ministry has reported 165 COVID-19 fatalities in the last 24 hours, over 700 thousand health workers were vaccinated against the virus in the first four days and vaccinations are expected to begin at nursing homes this week.

As reported by Evrim Kepenek from bianet, “arrested for online solicitation of a minor in the US, the man became a head of department in Turkey.” The Head of Psychology Department of Marmara University has resigned from office.