Main opposition CHP Aydın MP Bülbül has indicated that police and gendarmerie forces intervened in at least 1,215 protest demonstrations in 2019 while they have intervened in 700 demonstrations and press statements over the last five months.

Assassinated in Diyarbakır five years ago, Diyarbakır Bar Chair Tahir Elçi had struggled against impunity all through his life. Lawyer Nahit Eren says that they will struggle to ensure that his case file will not be closed as if it was an ordinary murder.

Referring to the ruling AKP and its ally MHP, HDP Spokesperson Günay says, “The junior partner of the government seems to take the reins. A party whose voting rate has dropped as low as six percent is trying to govern the country with threat and blackmail.”

Police raided the Van Organization of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) at night, changing the locks of the building’s exterior door, entrance door and the fourth floor door and leaving the new keys on the locks.

Put on trial for calling on the government to come to terms with with Abdullah Öcalan in his Facebook posts, Gerger Fırat local newspaper’s owner Hacı Boğatekin has been acquitted of “terror propaganda” and “praising the crime and criminal.”

The court refused to reduce the sentence of the defendant due to good behavior and unjust provocation.

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Hakan Yalçın has been detained in a house raid in the capital city of Ankara.

Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu has spoken about the incident where two citizens were reportedly dropped from a helicopter after being detained by soldiers in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van.

A group of lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) İstanbul Branch have filed a criminal complaint against the public officials who had responsibility for the death of arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik on a death fast.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 13,014 and the total number of patients to 474,606. 174 people have died of the virus and the number of new cases has been announced as 29,132 in the last 24 hours.

“Turkey’s decision to ‘open’ the sealed-off suburb of Varosha undermines prospects of a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem,” says the Members of the European Parliament in a resolution adopted by 631 votes in favour.

With 10 agreements signed with Qatar, Turkey expects a capital flow of 300 million dollars from the country. The sale of 10 percent shares of Turkey's stock exchange Borsa İstanbul is among list of agreements.