Aygül Doku, the elder sister of Gülistan Doku, who has been missing for 139 days, has spoken to bianet about her sister.

Restricted from going out since April 4 as part of COVID-19 measures, young people aged between 15 and 20 were allowed to go out for the second time today. They met with their friends and fed street animals. Here are some pictures from around Turkey...

The prosecutor’s office has issued an indictment into the killing of Ali El Hemdan by a security officer in Adana: There was no chase between the two, the officer did not stagger and put the cartridge in the barrel after Hemdan turned his face towards him.

HDP Central Executive Committee member Özlem Gündüz, DBP former Co-Chair Mehmet Arslan, Rosa Women’s Association founding members and Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activists have been detained in the operation.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the kingdom's consulate in İstanbul and his body has never been found.

The municipality has drawn circles to help people maintain social distance on the city's coastline.

The Press Advertisement Institution (BİK) has cut the public ads of daily Cumhuriyet for 35 days over its new report “There is illegal construction in Bosphorus” about Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun.

Two people were shortly detained for "publicly degrading religious values," the prosecutor's office has announced.

Raising concerns over the detrimental effects of unfiltered coal-fired thermal plants on human health, Greenpeace has applied to the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and requested the halt of their operation without waiting for the end of 2020.

In a written statement, the Ecology Union has warned that Diyarbakır’s Hevsel Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, face a threat of devastation and ecological destruction due to construction works for a nation’s garden project.

Central Bank has reduced the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) from 8.75 to 8.25 percent. “While uncertainties on global economic recovery remain high, normalization steps taken by several countries are being watched,” the Bank has said.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, it has been announced that 10,111 social media accounts have been probed due to “provocative” and “baseless” coronavirus posts in the last 65 days.

The number of new Covid-19 cases was under 1,000 for the second day in a row.

While the number of cases is not as high as the western parts of the country, the epidemic is still going on in the regions and authorities are not transparent about the figures, doctors say.

Editor Yılmaz says, “We have prepared a joint issue with the Adıge Mak, Adıge Psale, Çerkes Heku and Şapsugiya newspapers from the motherland and in the mother language. We want to represent all Caucasian peoples in their languages.”

HEVİ LGBTİ+ Association has prepared a report about the problems refugee LGBTI+s have been experiencing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Battered and taken into custody by the police in the capital city of Ankara while protesting the recent appointment of trustees to five HDP municipalities, nine HDP members have been released from detention.

Summoned to depose upon the objection of the prosecutor to his release from detention on May 19, journalist Hakan Gülseven has been released on probation.

Coming together in İstanbul and İzmir, women have reiterated that “early marriage is a crime.” Referring to the plans to grant amnesty for child abuse, they have noted that it is impossible to talk about the consent of a child younger than 15.

İstanbul's Taksim Square and İstiklal Avenue are among the places where mask use is mandatory.