It has been announced that 44 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19 in Silivri Prison. But, how were the prisoners taken to the hospital? Were the vehicles disinfected after that? Are there adequate measures to protect prisoners and wardens?

With the decreasing number of new Covid-19 cases, the government is poised to relax measures for the pandemic.

Minister of Youth and Sports Mehmet Kasapoğlu has announced that a total of 17,506 citizens are currently in isolation at dormitories across 76 of 81 provinces in Turkey.

The Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the social media posts about public officials in relation with the passing of 9-year-old Ahmet Ataç.

The indictment issued against journalists for reporting on the funeral of an intelligence officer killed in Libya demands penalization as per the Article 329/1 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) and Article 27 of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) law.

393 rights defenders have shared nine demands with the public so that the right to life and health of arrested and convicted people can be safeguarded in prisons of Turkey amid coronavirus pandemic.

In response to your letter dated April 19, we would like to speak to you in the magical light of the full moon from wherever we can exist: In spite of all this sorrow and injustice, in spite of everything, thank you life, thank you Osman.

The country's death toll has risen by 57 to 3,641, the Health Ministry has announced.

President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had filed a criminal complaint for Zarakolu over an article.

The move will prevent "transactions and applications that might endanger the operation of banks," said the banking agency.

Releasing a written statement about the law on criminal enforcement, the Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) has said, “Constitutional Court should immediately rule that the discriminatory implementation of the legal reform is against the Constitution.”

Sayılğan had spent 1,137 days behind bars before being released by a court of appeal.

Having ended his death fast on the 323rd day on May 5, Grup Yorum music band member İbrahim Gökçek has lost his life at the hospital where he was treated.

A curfew has been in place for those over the age of 65 and younger than 20 for over a month.

The jury has also decided to give Europa Nostra Awards to two important heritage works from Switzerland: The Manor Farm of Bois de Chênes in the category Conservation and the Société de Lecture based in Geneva in the category Dedicated Service.

After a meeting with the Health Minister, the federation's chair announced that the leagues would resume on June 12.

The Constitutional Court has completed its first examination on the request for the annulment of newly enacted law on criminal enforcement and stay of its execution. The top court has decided to proceed to an examination as to the merits.

We are All Migrants - No to Racism platform has launched a petition: “We are together in coronavirus outbreak, let us continue living together. Give all immigrants in Turkey the right to be refugees!"

Issuing a joint declaration, rights organizations and lawyers have noted that “the primary duty of the state is to keep alive” and requested that imprisoned lawyers and other political prisoners be released.

Development Workshop has released a report on the lives of seasonal agricultural workers in Turkey in the days of coronavirus pandemic. Ayşe Özsoy from Development Workshop has answered the questions of bianet.