President Erdoğan has commented on Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention: “If we absolutely need such a contract, we can draught one that is fairer, better, and stronger, call it the Ankara Convention, and go forward with that."

Mehmet Özhaseki, the Vice Chair of the ruling AKP responsible for local administrations, has sent a circular to the AKP’s municipalities across the country and asked them to pay off citizens’ debts to shopkeepers.

Turkish Medical Association Chair Prof. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı has underlined that the ruling AKP cannot manage the pandemic: “Society must be enabled to say, ‘We don’t give up our right to life’.”

The warships were set to reach the Black Sea on April 14 and 15 and remain there until May 4 and 5, according to the diplomatic sources.

The Court of Cassation has given a ruling of release for journalist-writer Ahmet Altan, who has been behind bars for 4 years, 7 months and for whom the ECtHR has recently given a ruling of right violation. Altan has been released from Silivri Prison.

The summaries of proceedings are against eight main opposition CHP MPs, including CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and two MPs of the HDP. The summaries seek lifting the legislative immunity of the MPs.

In the main trial of jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has not been released despite an ECtHR judgement, the court board has requested that the file of the main trial be merged with that of the Kobanê trial.

Standing trial for “entering a forbidden military zone” in Edirne while reporting on the situation of refugees heading towards Turkey-Greece border, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Naci Kaya and İdris Sayılğan have been acquitted.

İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has said, “While the countries that take the outbreak seriously are normalizing one by one, Turkey is going through its worst period, which is a result of gross incompetence.”

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The academics of Boğaziçi University have filed a lawsuit against the appointment of Prof. Selami Kuran as a dean to the Faculty of Law, which has been established by a Presidential decision shortly after the rector appointment.

The opposition accuses the government of draining the Central Bank's foreign exchange reserves in a bid to prevent the US dollar's hike.

Investigating the lawyer over a social media post, prosecutors ordered the confiscation of his phone to look for other "indications of crime."

The European Court of Human Rights has handed down its judgement on jailed journalist-writer Ahmet Altan and journalist Murat Aksoy. The court has concluded that their freedom of expression has been violated.

Both the doctor and the prosecutor filed a lawsuit against each other after the incident.

The judgeship has ruled that 13 retired admirals shall be released “on the condition that they do not leave their residential areas.” Facing a request for his arrest, retired admiral Mengi has been released with an intercity and international travel ban.

Main opposition CHP Spokesperson Faik Öztrak has talked about a series of current issues, especially the recent situation amid the pandemic, the vaccine purchased from China, unemployment and the proceedings against the retired admirals.

Ten retired officers were detained and four others were summoned to testify over a declaration that the government claimed was a "coup threat."

Ahead of the board's meeting to discuss stricter measures in the midst of a new surge in infections, Kılıçdaroğlu has urged its members to be "more courageous."

The government has accused 104 retired admirals of threatening with a coup by releasing a declaration and claimed that the main opposition party was behind it.