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.

The president's appointment of a rector who is a member of his party has sparked protests among students and academics.

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has held an online meeting with WHO's Kluge, informing him about the country's efforts to slow down the Covid-19 outbreak.

The appointment of a ruling party member, Prof. Melih Bulu, as the new president of the university has sparked outrage among its community.

The court has accepted the indictment that was prepared more than six years after the incidents that claimed more than 40 lives in the eastern and southeastern provinces.

The country's tally stands at 2.29 million cases and 22.264 deaths.

Referred to judgeship with a request for their arrest, Azad Aksoy and Yıldız İdil Şen have been released on probation. While 40 people were detained over the protests at Boğaziçi University, 22 people were released earlier today.

A regulation about the moveable assets belonging to the army, the police and the intelligence agency has been amended.

Both students and academics protested the new rector in separate demonstrations.

The newly appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, Melih Bulu, doesn't have high academic qualifications, says Prof. Karadağ, who studies the academic success of Turkey's universities.

Arrested and dismissed Co-Mayor of Batman Mehmet Demir made his defense in Kurdish. As three Kurdish interpreters were unable to interpret his speech “because he was speaking in academic Kurdish,” Demir refused to make defense.

Kaos GL Association monitored discriminatory remarks and hate speech about LGBTI+s in 2020. According to the report, a total of 1,476 hate speech items and discriminatory remarks were published in Turkey’s newspapers last year.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has, for the third time, concluded that journalist Şahin Alpay’s “right to personal liberty and security” has been violated. This last application was about the house arrest given to the journalist in 2018.