DEVA Party Chair Babacan, also a former deputy PM from the ruling AKP, has said, “Osman Kavala has been behind bars for over a thousand days. I had his case files examined by our fellow legists. They are pathetic, it is an utter travesty of law.”

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 11,507 and the total number of patients to 414,278. 89 people have died of the virus and the number of new patients has been announced as 3,223 in the last 24 hours.

Urfa Bar Association has announced that Bêrû (Faceless), a theater play to be performed in Kurdish by the Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theater), has been banned in Urfa province. It was previously banned in a district in İstanbul.

While 141 workers were working in healthcare, 90 workers were working in trade/office/education/cinema, 25 were working in municipal affairs, 20 in textile/leather sector, 17 in security, 15 in metal, 14 in transportation and 10 in accomodation.

When the Mercedes driver complained about the slippery new surface of İstanbul Park, a district mayor told him to "mind his own business," which he did to win the race and clinch his seventh world championship.

After the document was published on social media, the Council released a statement, saying that it was "a routine practice."

“We don’t say it as a slogan, we have really burned out. Our two fellow health workers committed suicide,” says SES Union Co-Chair Atabey about the decision of two hospitals to call COVID-infected personnel back to work without being tested.

Only 28 percent of the participants said that they had an earthquake emergency kit, according to a survey by the municipality.

A group of artists have joined a social media campaign under the hashtag “#MadenciyleYürüyorum” (I am marching with the miner) in solidarity with the miners from Soma and Ermenek who have not been paid their wages and severance.

While the Governor’s Office of İstanbul has stated that it would be “objectionable” if the persons responsible for the new layout of the park remained in office, the Municipality of Küçükçekmece has said that the incident has been “manipulated.”

Partial quarantines have been imposed in Edirne, Kars, Kastamonu, Bilecik and Balıkesir; those who do not comply with the pandemic measures and bans are fined.

"It is a legal scandal that a storybook, which has sold hundreds of thousands, is cited as evidence for the charge of membership in a [terrorist] organization," the defendant's attorney has said.

A midibus with refugees on board overturned in Turkey’s eastern province of Van. Two people have lost their lives and 31 people have been wounded.

Laboratory worker Kaşbaş was subjected to an attempted attack in a public hospital in İstanbul two years ago. The lawsuit filed into the incident has ended in the acquittal of two defendants at the first hearing. Kaşbaş has spoken to bianet.

Recently released from Patnos Prison in eastern Turkey, journalist Aziz Oruç defines the outside world as “a partial freedom” and adds: “We need to foster journalists’ solidarity regardless of who works for which newspaper.”

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 11,233 and the total number of patients to 404,894. 88 people have died of the virus and the number of new patients has been announced as 2,841 in the last 24 hours.

According to main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu’s “Report on Occupational Homicides in Turkey”, which covers the period when the AKP has been in power, 25 thousand 716 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in 18 years.

Having spent 155 days on remand, a journalist was released after her first hearing while a lawsuit against three journalists over their reports on the killing of Berkin Elvan, 15, during the Gezi Park protests continued.

The activity of Turkey's forces will be limited to the premises of a joint monitoring center with Russia that will be established in Azerbaijan, Russia's foreign minister has said.

All demonstrations and events have been banned in the Kurdish-majority province ince 2019.