A lawsuit has been filed against the defendant over his sexist remarks about Başak Demirtaş, the wife of jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş. While the defendant now faces up to 7 years, 4 months in prison, he has been released from house arrest.

Şık had spent 14 months in prison in a "terrorism-related" case against Cumhuriyet newspaper.

Taken into custody by the police when they attempted to march from Kocaeli province to Ankara to protest metal workers’ dismissal without severance pay and forced unpaid leave, 109 people have been released from detention.

İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has responded to MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli, who criticized him over his statements challenging the official COVID-19 data announced by the Ministry of Health.

Criticized by President and AKP Chair Erdoğan for saying that Selahattin Demirtaş and Osman Kavala should be released, Presidential High Advisory Board member Arınç, also a former Parliamentary Speaker from the AKP, has resigned from office.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 12,672 and the total number of patients to 460,916. 161 people have died of the virus and the number of new patients has been announced as 7,381 in the last 24 hours.

Police attacked metal workers’ march from Kocaeli to the capital city. Demanding their right to unionize, workers staged a sit-in protest in front of the office of United Metal Workers’ Union. Police took the detained to the security office in municipality busses.

Shortly after Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Dindar Karataş was detained in a house raid in early morning hours today, the MA Bureau in Van has been raided by the police, computers and hard disks have been seized.

Ahead of November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, bianet male violence monitoring report shows that men killed at least 253 women and inflicted violence on at least 715 women from January 1 to November 21, 2020.

“There is no need for a reform in laws, there is a need for a reform not in the judiciary, but in the mindset. And this happens by ensuring that the judiciary is independent,” says Ankara Bar Association Chair Erinç Sağkan.

Gülistan Doku, a student of Munzur University in Dersim, has been missing since January 5, 2020. The search efforts for the missing woman were ongoing in the Uzunçayır Dam Lake, near which Doku was last seen.

“If the executive keeps its hands off the judiciary, it will be the first judicial reform,” says İstanbul Bar Association Chair Mehmet Durakoğlu.