Prof. Murat Yılmaz from the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of Akdeniz University Hospital says, “If they saw our conditions, I am sure that people would be walking on the street like astronauts, let alone refusing to wear face masks.”

Ministry of Justice has expressed an opinion about the arrest of Osman Kavala upon the request of the Constitutional Court. It has referred to phone conversations between Kavala - Henri Barkey that do not exist in the HTS records as “evidence.”

We have spoken with İstanbul Medical Chamber Chair Prof. Pınar Saip and Ankara Medical Chamber Chair Dr. Ali Karakoç regarding what needs to be done against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak before it is too late.

This year’s International Hrant Dink Awards have been granted to arrested human rights activist and businessperson Osman Kavala from Turkey and women’s rights advocate Mozn Hassan from Egypt.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 7,186 and the total number of cases to 294,620. 67 people have died of the virus and 1,742 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

The Court of Cassation has upheld the prison sentences of all lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), except for four, indicating that “the conscientious conviction has been based on definite, consistent and nonconflicting data.”

Combining 17 individual applications about the issue, the Constitutional Court has once again concluded that 62 access blocks imposed on sendika.org news website and successive websites have violated freedom of expression and press.

Germany has rejected Turkey’s request for “mutual judicial assistance” to take testimony of Ferhat Tunç on the ground that it is against freedom of expression. Standing trial for “insulting the President”, Tunç now faces a warrant for his detention in Turkey.

The Ankara 7th Penal Judgeship of Peace has ordered an access block to gabile.com, a dating and chat site sharing news and articles about the LGBTI+ community. Yıldız Tar from the Kaos GL Association has spoken to bianet about the block.

Amid escalating tensions between Turkey and Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean, 350 women from both countries, including artists Jülide Kural and Füsun Demirel, writer Ayşe Kulin and politician Binnaz Toprak, have made a call for peace.

Issuing a new NAVTEX alert, Turkey has argued that Greece has militarized Chios Island in violation of the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty.

The ECtHR has concluded that the right to liberty and security and freedom of expression of writer Ragıp Zarakolu have been violated. The writer has been standing trial as part of Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) İstanbul Main Case.

In a statement about the detention of 60 legists, the İHD has noted that “it cannot be the subject of an investigation whom a lawyer will defend, what she talked with her client during the defense and what tactic she will follow in preparing the defense.”

Answering the questions of CNN in Meis Island, President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou has responded to a question regarding the country’s purchase of fighter jets from France in such a period with a Greek proverb.

Nine people have lost their lives and 43 people have been wounded after an explosives-laden small truck went off in Syria’s northwestern district of Afrin.

Prof. Tufan Tükek, the Dean of İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine, has said, “We can say that the outbreak has started again for İstanbul. The majority are young people and the rate of pneumonia is unfortunately high.”

HDP has released a statement about the armed attack on Kurdish workers in Afyon: “The antagonistic policies of the government against Kurdish people and its mindset breeding a lynch culture in society lead to this picture that we have today.”

In an attempt to raise awareness about the COVID-19 outbreak and call on the authorities to step up measures, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has declared September 14-18 the “Week of You Cannot Manage it, We are Burning out.”

Referring to the pandemic, the Governor’s Office has banned all types of meetings, marches, concerts and conferences in Dersim, except for the ones approved by the Governor’s Office and held “according to traditions and customs.”

The Constitutional Court has annulled the law article prohibiting demonstrations and protest marches on intercity roads. Interior Minister Soylu has asked the President of the Court in response: “Why do you have police protection and escort, then?”