During a joint press conference with his counterpart from Spain, Minister Çavuşoğlu said that the conversion of the monument into a mosque was Turkey's internal matter.

The criminal complaint requests that President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş shall stand trial for violating the Constitution and the Law on Crimes Committed against Atatürk over his remarks during Friday sermon at Hagia Sophia on July 24.

For a four-member family, the starvation line was 2,406 lira and the poverty line was 7,838 lira, the survey has found.

The court has accepted the request that death fasting arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal be examined by the Forensic Medicine Institution.

The 18th Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards have been granted to human rights defender Gönül Öztürkoğlu and dismissed Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı, who has been behind bars since October 2019.

A heavy penal court board was not aware of the time of the hearing of a case that was sent to them after the recusal of the previous court board.

Friends and loved ones of Osman Kavala have answered the question, “Which word would you use to describe him?” The most frequent answers are: “Conscience and conscientious”, “modest and modesty”, “good and goodness” and “human.”

Bärbel Kofler from Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement on the 1,000th day of businessperson and rights defender Kavala’s arrest: “I look with increasing concern at the status of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms in Turkey.”

Main opposition CHP MP Utku Çakırözer met businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala, who has been behind bars for 1,000 days, and lawyer Ebru Timtik, who has been on a death fast for her right to a fair trial for 207 days.

Today marks the 1,000th day of businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala’s imprisonment. Kavala has answered the questions of bianet.

The government has been preparing to withdraw from the convention against violence on women.

After a columnist made a call for “Caliphate”, ruling AKP Spokesperson Çelik has said, “The Republic of Turkey is a democratic, secular and social state of law. With these qualities, our Republic is the shared roof of us all."

A bus carrying soldiers flipped over in southern Turkey.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 5,613 and the total number of cases to 226,100. 17 people have died of the virus and 927 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been serving as the chairperson of the CHP since 2010.

In the 800th week of their protests for the enforced disappeared, Saturday Mothers/People insistently reiterated their question: “What happened to our loved ones disappeared in custody? Why are the perpetrators protected by violating all laws?”

Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) Co-Chair Özlem Gümüştaş, ESP Socialist Women’s Assemblies (SKM) Spokesperson Deniz Aktaş and SKM Central Executive Board members have been taken into custody in Balıkesir province.

“Thanks to our widening area of influence in foreign intelligence, our country has begun to take its place on all platforms as a regional and global power,” President Erdoğan has said at the opening ceremony of new service building of the MİT.

While the education minister says schools will reopen on August 31, doctors and union representatives point out that it is currently impossible to have "one student per four square meters."

From the Human Rights Association (İHD) report on prisons in Marmara region: “One prisoner was not given a tea cup because it has a handle and another prisoner was not given eau de cologne because it contains alcohol…’”