The Health Ministry has reported 28 deaths and 1,022 new cases for the past 24 hours.

While four of the dismissed co-mayors have been given house arrest, six people, including co-mayors and municipal employees, have been released on the condition of judicial control measures.

Amid the ongoing suspension of HDP mayors in the Kurdish-majority regions, Ayhan Bilgen has been receiving death threats on social media for a while.

Air, land and sea travel to and from 15 major cities, including İstanbul and Ankara, will be banned until June 3.

The Ministry of Interior has taken over 45 out of 65 municipalities won by the HDP in Kurdish-majority provinces.

Today is May 19 Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey. With the curfew in effect in 15 major cities in the country, the day has been celebrated with social distancing as part of coronavirus measures.

Addressing the public following the cabinet meeting yesterday, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has announced that a four-day country-wide curfew will be imposed on Ramadan Feast and the gradual easing of restrictions will continue after that.

Vice President of European Commission Borrell has said, “Decisions and actions taken by the Turkish authorities against municipalities with mayors from opposition parties remain of deep concern, in particular when they appear to be politically motivated.”

Removed from office and replaced with a trustee by the Ministry of Interior on May 15, HDP’s Iğdır Provincial Co-Mayor Yaşar Akkuş has been arrested. Akkuş was dismissed along with four other HDP co-mayors.

The Health Ministry reported 31 fatalities and 1,158 cases for the past 24 hours.

A pro-government media figure had threatened to kill "at least 50 people" in case of a new coup attempt.

Prof. Tevfik Özlü from the Coronavirus Science Board: “Keeping social distance is indispensable here. People should stay home unless absolutely necessary. One needs to stay away from closed spaces with poor ventilation as much as possible.”

Four law and rights organizations have released their weekly report on the condition of prisons and prisoners in Turkey amid coronavirus pandemic. The organizations have reiterated their call for the release of all prisoners in the risk group.

Broadcast of news and political discussion programs on four channels were suspended for 27 times, CHP's İlhan Taşcı has said.

“How is such an irony, such foolishness even possible? The MNG company has destroyed the valley on the right side. They have now declared it a national park,” says Erdoğan Güler, the Spokesperson for the Arhavi Nature Conservation Platform.

While the weather was 38.8 degrees Celsius in the Mediterranean province of Antalya yesterday, the temperature hit 39 degrees in Muğla. Allowed to go out for six hours, fewer citizens aged 65 and over went out yesterday.

“While the legal system of Turkey has no legislation protecting LGBTI+s, the policy makers and implementers themselves can increasingly become the actors of rights violations in that respect,” the Kaos GL association has noted in a recent report.

Bilgen's attorney said that they would file a criminal complaint against those who threatened the mayor.

Saturday Mothers/People and Human Rights Association (İHD) Commission Against Disappearances in Custody have released a statement on the occasion of International Week of the Enforced Disappeared to be observed as of today till the end of May.

"The conditions, dynamics and parameters of the new normal are being built right now. Nothing will be the same," Kalın has remarked.