Held in İmralı Prison, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan for the first time after 21 years. The other three inmates imprisoned in İmralı have also talked to their families on the phone.

The attack in the northwestern Syrian city came while people were shopping for Ramadan fast breaking.

Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül has stated, “120 arrestees and convicts from 4 separate prisons have been diagnosed with Covid-19. All of them are in treatment at hospitals, their general state of health is good.”

Main opposition CHP İstanbul Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu has been summoned to depose as part of the investigation launched against her in relation with the photographing of Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun’s house.

To celebrate April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day and mark the centenary of the Parliament’s foundation, people took to their windows and balconies at 9 p.m. yesterday and sang the national anthem across the country.

The Children’s Rights Center of İstanbul Bar Association has stated, “The significant decrease in the number of victim children is considered to be mainly caused by problems about accessing protective mechanisms.”

On the centenary of Children’s Day, children are celebrating the day for the first time at home. We asked them about their recommendations to other children and what they will do when the quarantine ends. They answered with poems, drawings, songs..

Submitting a Parliamentary question regarding the ones released from prison as per the recently enacted law on criminal enforcement, HDP MP Toğrul has asked how many of them have committed crimes again after their release.

The HDP's imprisoned former co-chair, who is still behind bars despite a prison release law, has released a statement on Twitter.

An armed attack has been launched against Burdur Yeşilova District Mayor Mümtaz Şenel and his wife Fatma Şenel at their home in early morning hours. The two are reportedly in good health. Şenel is publicly known for his efforts to protect Lake Salda.

The ministry previously blocked donation accounts of the municipalities for illegally launching a donation campaign.

Defending the government's decision to not impose a full lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, Kalın has said, "Talking about the economy may seem irrelevant or inhuman to some. But the fact is that life must go on somehow."

"A curfew or full-isolation" is necessary to slow down the spread of coronavirus, according to the mayors of 11 larger cities, including İstanbul and Ankara.

The bill on economic measures against coronavirus outbreak has passed the General Assembly of the Parliament and has become a law. Accordingly, employers have been granted the right to give workers unpaid leave.

Retired military judge Kardaş and Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Secretary General Yılmaz have spoken to bianet about the plans to postpone induction and discharge in mandatory military service for a month over Covid-19 outbreak.

With the law on criminal enforcement that entered into force today, security forces can now interrogate prisoners for up to 15 days “to obtain information about terror crimes.” But, it is not known where, how and within the scope of which rights they will depose...

Having passed the General Assembly of the Parliament, the Law on Criminal Enforcement has been published on the Official Gazette and entered into force.

It is reported that a “terror” investigation has been launched against media outlets that used address and photo while reporting the İstanbul Municipality’s demolition of illegal construction carried out by Presidential Communications Director Altun.

Figen Çalıkuşu, the attorney of arrested journalist-writer Ahmet Altan, has requested his urgent release. Noting that her client is 70 years old, Çalıkuşu has underlined that coronavirus poses a life threat to Altan in prison.

Amnesty International has released a statement about the law on criminal enforcement approved by the Parliament: “Those convicted in unfair trials under Turkey's overly broad anti-terrorism laws are also now condemned to face the prospect of infection.”