Artan COVID-19 vaka ve ölü sayıları sebebiyle Mart ayının sonundan bu yana sıkı kapanma tedbirleri altındaki Şanghay’da tedbirlerin hafiletileceği açıklanırken Çin’in başkenti Pekin’de vaka sayıları yükselmeye devam ediyor.

"They don't know international law. The domestic Soros will pay the price for attacking the state," the president has said.

"Remember the Dolmabahçe Mosque. The garbage heads who sit in the mosque with cans of beer came to our office," the president said.

CHP MPs including Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel visited the convicts of Gezi Trial, Osman Kavala, Can Atalay, Tayfun Kahraman and Hakan Altınay in Silivri Prison.

The "cross-border operation," the "Gezi Trial," and the "lynch attempt" against Garo Paylan are just the opening moves. It is almost certain that 2022 and 2023 will be full of similar attempts with increased numbers and violence. More than not being frightened by "muscle flexing" is needed for an effective opposition.

The co-chairs of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute have described the court verdict in the Gezi trial as a "blatant disregard" of the rule of law and called for the overturn of the verdict.

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.