Ruling AKP MP Hüseyin Şanverdi has announced that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The MP was among the ones who attended the Friday prayers in Hagia Sophia on July 24.

A guide prepared by the Presidency’s Digital Transformation Office has prohibited the ones working in state institutions and organizations from using foreign messaging apps, requesting them to prefer “local and national” applications.

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Minister of Environment and Urban Affairs, HDP MP Kerestecioğlu asks whether the document permitting the demolition of Bomonti Beer Factory buildings amid ongoing judicial process complies with the law.

Social media companies will have to store users' data in Turkey, those who refuse to open an office will be subject to monetary penalties and bandwidth throttling.

100 delegates of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) have called an "Extraordinary General Assembly” meeting and requested a vote of confidence against TBB Chair Metin Feyzioğlu.

"If we were a nation targeting other symbols of other beliefs, the Sümela Monastery, which we have had for five centuries, would have gone forever now," the President has said.

Amid debates of President of Religious Affairs' "damnation,” the Armed Forces posted a picture of Atatürk’s Tomb in Ankara. Afterwards, the Presidency of Religious Affairs has omitted the “damn” part from the Friday sermon at Hagia Sophia.

The court has rejected the objection to the arrest of journalists Barış Pehlivan, Murat Ağırel and Hülya Kılınç. The Presiding Judge has expressed a dissenting opinion, indicating that the journalists should have been released on probation.

According to the ruling party's new social media bill, courts will be authorized to remove online content, in addition to their authority to impose access block orders.

Releasing a statement about the lawyers arrested as part of Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) trial, the People’s Law Bureau (HHB) has stressed that all arrested lawyers, especially death fasting Timtik and Ünsal, must be released.

Spokesperson for Turkey’s Foreign Ministry Hami Aksoy has responded to US Department of State’s call on Turkey to release businessperson and rights defender Kavala: “Everyone has to respect this process conducted by independent courts.”

After a magazine made a call for ‘Caliphate’ shortly after the first Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia, Presidential Spokesperson Kalın has made a statement about the ensuing debates, noting that “starting a debate on regime is an artificial agenda.”

Concluding the application of Feride Kaya, who was tortured by two gendarmerie officers in detention, the Constitutional Court has ruled that she shall be paid 90,000 lira in damages as the prohibition of torture has been violated.

The 1,500-year-old monument reopened as a mosque last Friday.

Ferhat Tepe, a reporter for Özgür Gündem newspaper, was abducted in the eastern province of Bitlis on July 28, 1993. He was found dead in Elazığ, another eastern province, on August 4. We remember Tepe on the 27th anniversary of his death.

The parliament will discuss the new social media bill tomorrow.

The criminal complaint requests that President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş shall stand trial for violating the Constitution and the Law on Crimes Committed against Atatürk over his remarks during Friday sermon at Hagia Sophia on July 24.

The court has accepted the request that death fasting arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal be examined by the Forensic Medicine Institution.

A heavy penal court board was not aware of the time of the hearing of a case that was sent to them after the recusal of the previous court board.

Bärbel Kofler from Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement on the 1,000th day of businessperson and rights defender Kavala’s arrest: “I look with increasing concern at the status of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms in Turkey.”