A draft report on Covid-19 in Turkey was sent to The New England Journal of Medicine but then withdrawn.

Taken into custody for allegedly insulting the then PM Erdoğan with her social media messages, main opposition CHP member Dila Koyurga has been sentenced to house arrest. Koyurga was 17 years old when she posted the related messages.

Suspended due to coronavirus outbreak, the high-speed intercity train travel has started again. Though the trains will run at 50 percent capacity, the ticket prices will remain the same, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Karaismailoğlu has announced.

An unknown perpetrator removed a cross on the gate of the church and threw it away in the second attack on Armenian churches in less than three weeks.

“We are in the second phase of our fight against coronavirus. We are in a period when there is still a risk, when the risk has not disappeared. The way of life to adopt in this period is a controlled social life,” says Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca.

Artists Ferhat Tunç and Pınar Aydınlar, writer Gökhan Yavuzel announce that they are threatened on social media: “We do not take even a single step back because we follow in the footsteps of Pir Sultan, who said, ‘Let them return, I never return my way’.”

In a statement released by the Ministry of National Defense, it has been announced that an explosion of unknown origin took place during a road control patrol in Syria’s Idlib, claiming the life of one soldier.

Lawyers Akkaya and Nakıpoğlu from the Purple Roof Foundation and Pasinli, the Chair of Diyarbakır Bar Association Women’s Rights Center, attribute male violence to the failure of the state to fulfil its responsibilities and take necessary measures.

Over the past 24 hours, 34 people died and 1,035 new cases were found, according to the ministry figures.

Seven journalists are behind bars over news reports on an intelligence officer's death in Libya.

Facing a criminal complaint by President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan along with four other CHP members, Dila Koyurga has been taken into custody over social media posts from 7 years ago, when she was 17 years old.

As coronavirus measures are being eased and many businesses are opening again, the ministry has released a guideline for a "controlled normalization."