The Radio and Television Supreme Council gave 72 hours to Voice of America, Euronews and Deutsche Welle to apply for a license for their Turkish services.

Yusuf A. from the November 20 Platform was a part of the Trans+ cortege joining the women’s demonstration in İstanbul on March 6. After the demonstration, police detained five Kurdish trans people, who were later fined as per the Public Health Law.

The ruling AKP, its ally MHP and BBP have requested that Halk TV presenter Ayşenur Arslan be penalized on charge of “degrading the nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey and the institutions and bodies of the state”.

Fifteen "plaintiffs" whose property was damaged during the Kobanî protests have withdrawn their complaints.

Amnesty International notes that “the Revolutionary Guards arrested Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani, known as Sareh, on October 27, 2021 near Iran-Turkey border while she was attempting to irregularly enter Turkey to seek international protection.”

The retrial of writer Aslı Erdoğan following an appeals court ruling has ended in her acquittal of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.

Some djemevis, where Alevi community worship, have announced that they will not pay their electricity bills in protest. As djemevis are not officially recognized as places of worship in Turkey, they are not exempted from this payment.

Greenpeace has carried out a study on illegal plastic waste dumping and burning in Turkey's Adana province. Chemicals released by burning plastic are now in people's food chain, says Nihan Temiz-Ataş of Greenpeace Mediterranean.

Causing an outrage for kicking a miner in Manisa’s Soma, Yusuf Yerkel, the then assistant secretary of the then PM Erdoğan, has been appointed as a commercial attache to Frankfurt. An online petition has been launched to stop this appointment.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 450 thousand tests were conducted, 98,602 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 264 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Media ombudsperson Faruk Bildirici has spoken to bianet about the inquiry launched by the Radio and Television Supreme Council against Halk TV and its order to three international news websites to apply for a license within 72 hours.

"Our union's efforts to reveal the real number of cases and deaths and its opposition against the failure to manage the pandemic have made our union a target of the government," the co-chair of SES has said.

İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has said, “The foundations of this economic wreck, this negative picture have been laid since the AK Party’s first years in power.”

A local environmental group in the Black Sea province in Turkey's north has said that it will file a criminal complaint against the municipality.

“Non-governmental LGBTI+ organization ÜniKuir fights for the fundamental right of all people to live their lives as equals and free from fear of discrimination or of persecution regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics.”

Opposition MP Veli Ağbaba and singer and activist Haluk Levent visited the workers who continue protesting in front of the Yemeksepeti headquarters in İstanbul.

The Ministry of Agriculture's draft regulation on animal experimentation was revealed to the public by animal rights groups.

Ayşenur Arslan, a program presenter at Halk TV, has been targeted on social media over her remarks about the killing of ‘betting and casino tycoon’ Halil Falyalı in Cyprus. RTÜK has launched an inquiry against the broadcaster.

Answering the Parliamentary question of an MP, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Pakdemirli has said that two amphibians and 27 firefighting helicopters were used in efforts to put out 3,399 forest fires that broke out in Turkey in 2020.

The share of informal employees was 27.8 percent whereas the youth unemployment rate was over 20 percent in December.