Referring to COVID-19 outbreak, Ankara Governor’s Office has banned meetings and demonstrations for 15 days ahead of the “Grand Defense Rally” against the bill “to split bar associations.” Lawyers in Ankara also formed a “defense chain” today.

In answering a Parliamentary question by CHP MP Tanrıkulu about the attacks against Armenians, Interior Minister Soylu has said, “Security measures are taken in places of worship so that our Armenian citizens can worship freely.”

President Erdoğan said they would submit a bill to control social media.

T24 news website Editor-in-Chief Doğan Akın has been acquitted in the lawsuit filed against him for reporting on the tweets posted from “Fuat Avni” account, which was previously charged with “propagandizing for the FETÖ.”

Can Selçuki, the General Manager of İstanbul Economy Research company, has shared the results of a recent election survey.

"The waste from gloves and masks in the sea has risen in the coronavirus period," Şahika Ercümen has said.

Infected people who came from abroad will stay in confinement in hotels, according to Turkey's reopening guideline for tourism facilities.

Today marks the 27th anniversary of Sivas Massacre, which claimed the lives of 35 people in Madımak Hotel. Eren Aysan, who lost her father Behçet Aysan in the massacre, has spoken to bianet about the commemorations and the judicial process.

After the President's remarks on entirely banning social media, opposition leaders expressed their frustration about missing their favorite Netflix series.

Ahead of Council of State’s decision on whether Hagia Sophia shall be retained as a museum or converted back into a mosque, US Secretary of State has urged Turkey to keep it as a museum. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has slammed the statement.

One person has been arrested in Mersin on the ground that he made insulting comments under the social media message where Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak announced that he and his wife Esra Albayrak had their fourth child.

Health Minister Koca has announced that there is a marked increase in the number of daily coronavirus cases in Ankara, Antep, Bursa, Konya and Diyarbakır provinces over the past two weeks.

Tests will be carried out on passengers entering and leaving the Turkey for 16 dollars.

"The government is having the problem of not being able to exert influence on bars and professional organizations. For this reason, it wants to interfere with bars and their elections," HDP's Danış-Beştaş has said.

The positive Environmental Impact Assessment report given for a gold mine in Murat Mountain in the Aegean was previously cancelled by the local court. The Council of State has upheld the cancellation, noting that “no more legal remedies are available.”

The boat is believed to be carrying as many as 60 people, the Interior Minister has said.

Launching an investigation against Prof. Kayıhan Pala following an interview entitled “The number of cases and fatalities in Bursa is higher than announced,” Uludağ University accuses him of “misinforming the public” and “leading them to panic.”

The President has lashed out at messages insulting his-son-in-law and his newborn grandchild.

Protesting the bill that will enable the establishment of more than one bar association in three major cities of Turkey, chairs of 30 bars have announced that they will organize a “Grand Defense Rally” in the capital city on July 3.

In 1993, a village was burned down and seven people were killed in Mardin, southeast Turkey.