In a statement released by Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, it has been announced that the 61st round of exploratory talks between Turkey and Greece will take place in İstanbul on January 25. The last talks were held between the two countries in 2016.

Students of İstanbul University gathered in Beyazıt Square to express their support for the students of Boğaziçi University in their protest: “Our struggle goes beyond the boundaries of Boğaziçi; all appointed university presidents must resign.”

The workers have not been reinstated despite winning a lawsuit against the company.

Freedom of expression organizations ARTICLE 19 and İFÖD have criticized TikTok’s decision to appoint a local representative in Turkey in compliance with the new social media law: “This decision seriously threatens free speech on its platform.”

Mersin Medical Chamber has noted that Dr. Şeyhmus Gökalp has been arrested in an unfair and unjust manner without any concrete evidence.

After WhatsApp announced its new privacy policy, it has faced backlash from users in Turkey as many are moving to other messengers.

The construction site of a high-speed rail line in Kırıkkale epitomizes the scale of unemployment among university graduates in Turkey. An archeologist, journalists, an interior architect and paramedic excavate a tunnel together for 12 hours a day.

The municipality's bread company has increased production amid increasing demand for cheaper bread.

Ministry of Interior has announced that a legal or administrative action has been taken against 35,544 people for violating the COVID-19 curfews over the past week. Citizens can object to the fines by appealing to the authority indicated in the notification.

Ramazan Toprak (34), working in the night shift, got trapped between two carriages and lost his life in a mine of the Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise Institution (TTK) in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Zonguldak.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for October 2020. According to the TurkStat, the unemployment rate was 12.7 percent in October, which marked a 1.1 percentage point annual decrease.

Having claimed that “terrorists were involved” in the protests against the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the university president of Boğaziçi, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has once again targeted the protests: “We have seen this film so many times in 18 years.”

Treated for cancer and arrested for over four years, ill prisoner Hadi Yalçın has lost his life. The requests for release of the ill prisoner were rejected.

Turkey has entered 2021 with a crisis that might lead the Council of Europe to impose sanctions as Erdoğan has announced that he does not recognize the ECtHR judgement on jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş. Not to mention other violations of rights…

Taken into custody in İstanbul on January 5, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Mehmet Aslan has been arrested.

Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that 176 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. While 9,138 new cases have been reported, the number of tests conducted in a day has been announced as 162,786.

On January 10 Working Journalists Day in Turkey, President Erdoğan released a statement expressing Turkey’s determination to “not give up press freedom.” But Turkey ranks 154th among 180 countries in the RSF World Press Freedom Index.

The students of Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University will march against the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the university president: “They want to persecute all of our dreams and efforts just as they used handcuffs to close the gates of the university.”

The two journalists who co-authored the book face several charges while reports about the content of the book are getting blocked to access.

Twenty-five years ago today, journalist Metin Göktepe was beaten to death by police officers. We have spoken with his sister about the killing and the aftermath.