After a dog named Max was abused in an animal shelter of the Devrek Municipality in Zonguldak, animal rights defenders have launched a campaign on social media to make their voices heard: “There is abuse in Devrek shelter.”

President Erdoğan is expected to announce the "good news" today.

With his prison sentence of 1 year, 15 days upheld by the Court of Cassation, local journalist Özgür Boğatekin has received an official notification, summoning him to the prosecutor’s office within 10 days for the execution of his sentence.

"We were subjected to systematic torture with my spouse in that confinement cell. They watched us 24 hours," Aytaç Ünsal's spouse has said.

Dating back to the Byzantine period when it was built as a monastery, the Chora (Kariye) Museum in İstanbul has been opened to worship as a mosque by a Presidential decree. It was previously handed over to the Presidency of Religious Affairs.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 6,058 and the total number of cases to 254,520. 19 people have died of the virus and 1,412 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu has talked about the removal of their banners against the Canal İstanbul project by the Governor's Office: “If they will take action, my advice is this: Don’t bother with banners, my social media posts have been there for months.”

The Human Rights Association (İHD), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and Initiative for Freedom of Expression have released their joint report on violations of freedom of expression in Turkey in July.

HDP Group Deputy Chair Danış-Beştaş said, “Erdoğan said he would announce good news tomorrow. The best news would be your leaving. People are poor and unemployed, prisons are full, pandemic measures are not taken, everyone is faced with death.”

"In the past year and a half, there has been an increased level of provocation by Turkey on several fronts," the PM of Greece has said.

Charged with “wilful killing” of 19-year-old university student Güleda Cankel in Isparta, male perpetrator Zafer P. has been sentenced to life imprisonment on the offense charged.

As the time given to the İstanbul Mesopotamia Cultural Center to leave its building of 18 years expired today, the building was blockaded by the police. The artists of the center have made a statement, stressing that they will keep doing their art.

The Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) constant at its current level of 8.25 percent. Referring to the “uncertainties regarding demand conditions,” the Bank has said that “it will continue with its liquidity measures.”

Villagers in northwestern Turkey are concerned that a planned quarry will harm the agriculture and animal husbandry in the area.

In a written statement, the Governor’s Office of Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Şırnak province has said that “provocative” demonstrations will be held on September 1 World Peace Day and banned the events and demonstrations for 15 days.

Hospitalized after the court rejected his request for release despite a forensic medical report, death fasting lawyer Ünsal has sent a letter: “I saw two soldiers sitting behind the glass and eating doner kebab or meatball sandwiches while looking me in the eye.”

İ.E. (18) attempted suicide and eventually died after she was raped by specialist sergeant Musa O., who was initially released from detention but later remanded in custody after public outrage.

Nazlı and Abravci were placed in house arrest over a slogan painted on a wall about the appointment of trustees. It has been a year since then; but, no indictment has been filed. As there is a confidentiality order on the file, even the attorneys cannot access it.

Transferred to İstanbul so that he could take his exams at university, arrested student Can was battered by gendarmerie. He took the ensuing impunity to the Constitutional Court, which has concluded that prohibition of maltreatment was violated.

Social media companies have to have a legal representative in Turkey, according to the law enacted in late July.