The president commented for the first time on the outcome of the case concerning the countrywide protests against his government in 2013.

A former AKP deputy and the spouse of the governor has sharply criticized the court verdict in the Gezi trial on Twitter.

İbrahim Haskoloğlu was arrested for "illegally obtaining personal data" after sharing images of ID cards that he said belonged to President Erodğan and intelligence chief Fidan.

"They expect us to accept that Onur Gencer committed this political murder alone," the lawyer of the Poyraz family has said.

The İYİ Party leader has praised the 2013 Gezi Park protests and slammed Monday's court ruling.

Mater was living in Germany and returned to Turkey in February to attend the hearings of the Gezi trial.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul a month ago. Since then, President Erdoğan has been calling for a meeting between the presidents of the two countries.

Having sentenced Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi to 18 years in prison along with six others in Gezi retrial, the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against him.

The lawyers of HDP MP Meral Danış Beştaş requested that the charges faced by the lawmaker be dropped in line with the ruling of rights violation handed down by the ECtHR. The high criminal court in Diyarbakır has rejected this request.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the top court, Constitutional Court President Zühtü Arslan said that the main duty of courts is to protect justice.

"I count on the Turkish judiciary to act in full compliance with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights," Kox has said. Meanwhile, PACE has postponed a meeting in Ankara.

Following the meeting of the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board of the Health Ministry, the obligation to wear face masks indoors has been lifted except for public transportation and health institutions.

The US State Department has expressed "deep trouble and disappointment" because of Osman Kavala's aggravated life sentence.

"This decision reconfirms the authoritarian character of the current system," Nacho Sanchez Amor and Sergey Lagodinsky said in a joint statement.

"Today, we have witnessed a travesty of justice of spectacular proportions. The court's decision defies all logic," said Amnesty International's Europe director.

International academic community, including Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler and David Harvey, has condemned "the intensifying attacks" on Boğaziçi, where the protests against the appointed rectors have been ongoing since January 2021.

The Child Commission of the Peoples’ Democratic Party has released a statement about the problems and violations of rights faced by children in Turkey shortly after April 23, which is marked as the Children’s Day in the country.

The court of appeals has ruled that the case file of jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş shall be sent back to the high criminal court, concluding that “dividing a part of the act and penalizing it partially is against the law as it is.”

"107 years ago, on April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals were detained in İstanbul, exiled to Çankırı, Ayaş and Ankara, and forcibly disappeared. Without confronting this date, which is the milestone of evil, true justice cannot be achieved," wrote MP Tanrıkulu.

The top court has ruled that changing the child's name from "Ciwan" to "Civan" could not be considered discrimination.