“Our Turkish has been subjected to the biggest word massacre in our history on the way to simplifying the language,” says President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, referring to Turkey’s adoption of the Latin script in 1928 and its aftermath.

While the opposition parties expect President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan to condemn the recent attacks on journalists and politicians, he says, “We will not bother with the ones wasting the country’s time with polemics based on lies and slanders.”

Five journalists and a politician have been assaulted in Turkey since January 1.

Referring to the recent physical assaults and threats targeting opposition politicians and critical journalists, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has reiterated that he expects President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and MHP Chair Bahçeli to condemn violence.

Residents of the working-class neighborhood say that their neighborhood has been declared a "risky zone" because of its closeness to a commercial center.

While Boğaziçi Solidarity platform has called on everyone to protest the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the new president of Boğaziçi University in Kadıköy, the Democratic University Initiative of İstanbul University will also hold a statement for the press.

The court has issued a warrant against journalist Cengiz Çandar, who is standing trial over his social media posts about Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, known as “the girl with the red scarf” during the Gezi resistance of 2013.

The suspects have been charged with willful injury as three others are being sought by police.

With their petitions for establishment not accepted for two years and prevented from being established as an official political party, Human and Freedom Party (PİA) founders and executives have visited the HDP Central Office.

According to the data shared by Directorate General of Meteorology, the highest number of extreme temperatures were recorded in September 2020, when extreme temperatures were reported in 93 centers across the country.

The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) has objected to the panel of experts who will review the appeals in the court case against the Canal İstanbul project, citing concerns about experts’ impartiality and objectivity.

After two journalists and a politician critical of Bahçeli were attacked, the MHP head continued threatening opposition leaders and journalists.

“We are mobilizing our country’s potential with an approach based on investment, production, growth, employment and export. We are also laying the groundwork for a historic transformation outside our borders,” says President and AKP Chair Erdoğan.

In the wake of recent attacks targeting opposition politicians and critical journalists in Turkey, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Bahçeli has threatened Future Party Chair Ahmet Davutoğlu and columnists Taha Akyol, Yıldıray Oğur and Elif Çakır.

HDP MP Ersoy has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Education Selçuk regarding the academic who was arrested for “online solicitation of a minor,” but was working as the head of a psychology department at a university in İstanbul.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed a member of his party as the head of Boğaziçi University on January 2.

An online petition demands the release of Dr. Selçuk Mızraklı, the dismissed Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, as well as other jailed politicians in Turkey.

We have spoken with HDP deputies Paylan and Temelli about the 2014 protests and the new indictment into the incidents.

The Ankara Security Directorate has announced that two people have been detained over the attack on Future Party Vice Chair Selçuk Özdağ in front of his house on January 15. The security teams are still working to catch the other suspects.

Main opposition CHP Eskişehir MP Utku Çakırözer has raised concerns that 34 journalists were assaulted in Turkey in 2019, 17 journalists were assaulted in 2020 and five journalists were assaulted in the first 15 days of this year.