AKP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin has argued that “the practice of strip search does not mean that it is a subject of human rights violation,” adding that “she does not say that there is no such search in Turkey at all.”

Speaking on March 14 Medicine Day, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan said, “We are one of the leading countries in vaccination, which we have launched starting with the riskiest groups.”

Rapper Burry Soprano has been arrested on charge of “inciting drug use” and sent to Silivri Prison.

Unveiling the new “Economic Reform Package” in a publicity meeting in İstanbul, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has said that the new reform package “aims to boost investment, production, jobs, and exports.”

HDP MPs met agricultural workers in Mersin. “We go to work at 4 in the morning; there are times when we cannot go back home at 9 in the evening. We cannot rest even for half an hour to eat something,” says the Precarious Workers Association Chair.

Journalist Can Dündar, columnists Yavuz Selim Demirağ, Sabahattin Önkibar, İdris Özyol, Ahmet Takan and grant holder of a local newspaper Şaban Önen speak to bianet about the impunity ensuing physical attacks on themselves.

Amid ongoing protests against the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz has released a statement of support for students and academics and demanded the release of arrested students.

Emrah Doğan, the elder brother of Dilek Doğan, who was killed by the police in 2015, has been sentenced to 19 years, 7 months in prison on charge of “membership of an organization” and “threat.”

The MHP, Akşener's former party, launched a Twitter hashtag campaign against her last week.

The opposition holds Albayrak responsible for causing the Central Bank to run out of foreign exchange reserves in a bid to keep the US dollar's exchange rate low.

Actor Ferhan Şensoy has penned a letter to be read out by his daughter at the funeral of actor Rasim Öztekin. In reporting the news, Anadolu Agency (AA) has censored the expression “in a joyous tavern.”

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has concluded that the right to life of Festus Okey, who was killed by the police in detention, was violated on material and procedural grounds. The family of Okey will be paid 80,000 lira in damages.

With a decision taken by the Fethiye District Municipality in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, citizens can no longer use razor wires around or on top of their garden walls and the already existing ones will be taken down so that animals will not get hurt.

At the final hearing of the lawsuit filed into the killing of Andrei Karlov in 2016, the files of nine fugitive defendants, including those of Gülen and Uslu, were separated.

The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) has extended the work permits of 14 academics from Galatasaray University for 3-6 months; no work permit has been granted to some academics yet.

The rector appointed by President Erdoğan said it was his "dream" to become the rector of Boğaziçi, but are his qualifications sufficient for that?

Having resigned from the Felicity Party (SP) in March 2020, independent MP Cihangir İslam has become a member of the CHP, bringing the number of the main opposition party’s seats at the Parliament to 136.

The ECtHR has concluded that the disciplinary sanction imposed on Eminağaoğlu by the then Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors based on the intelligence gleaned through the tapping of his phone was due to his critical opinions.

Families of the students are being called by the police and "warned" while private security officers film the protesters with cameras all the time.

In the trial of public officials over the killing of journalist Hrant Dink, the final hearing has been adjourned until March 26 as one of the judges was on leave with a medical report.