Locals have lashed out at the attempts to build a scrap melting facility and to expand the organized industrial zone in the region by expropriating fertile agricultural lands in Zonguldak’s Çaycuma.

The recent industrial natural gas cuts and the excessive increase in energy prices are caused by wrong energy policies, says the Chamber of Chemical Engineers.

Amid a days-long power cut in the city, Isparta Governor Ömer Seymenoğlu has been removed from office on the stated grounds that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Central governor Osman Kaymak has been appointed in his place.

According to the Health Ministry’s data on the number of COVID-19 cases per 100 thousand people by provinces on January 22-28, the number of cases dropped from 1,245.73 to 889.58 in İstanbul while the cases in Ankara and İstanbul increased.

The Council of State has halted the execution of the resolution reportedly laying the ground for the construction of the Presidential Complex in Ankara’s Beştepe.

More than 60 percent of the people don't want Syrians to work, own a business or live in Turkey, according to a new survey.

IPS Communication Foundation/bianet met rights organizations and journalists to share the outputs of its works as part of the Resilience project, which has set out to help “a media free of hate and disinformation” come true.

The CFWIJ has released a statement about journalist Nurcan Yalçın, who was detained in Diyarbakır on February 4, and called for her immediate release.

Academic Kaan Öztürk from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering has announced that appointed rector Naci İnci has terminated his course: “The turn to be laid off from Boğaziçi has apparently come to me.”

Thousands of people took to the streets in Mardin’s Kızıltepe and protested the price hikes. Police intervened against the protesters with pepper gas and pressurized water.

While Kocaeli University Hospital concluded that Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk is not in a state to stay in prison, the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution said that she is. Tuğluk was sent to the Institution again for a third medical report.

Arriving in Isparta, where the electricity has been off for 4 days, Energy Minister Dönmez says 20,000 subscribers cannot be provided with electricity. The Governor’s Office dismisses the allegations that the death of one person is related to the power cut.

Pınar Ö. has been placed under house arrest after being detained as part of the investigation launched into the social media posts about the health condition of President Erdoğan and his spouse Emine Erdoğan, who have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 412 thousand tests were conducted, 87,934 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 201 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that upon mild symptoms, he and his spouse Emine Erdoğan had themselves tested for COVID-19 today and they are having a mild Omicron case.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 468 thousand tests were conducted, 111,157 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 248 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Arrested after being removed from office, HDP’s Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı has been transferred to Edirne Prison at his own request.

RTÜK member İlhan Taşçı from the main opposition CHP argues that the fine imposed on a daytime show presented by Esra Erol and broadcast by pro-government ATV is “for the show.” RTÜK has also fined Halk TV and TELE 1 news channels.

Main opposition CHP MP Antmen notes that Turkey recognized the ECtHR’s jurisdiction in 1989: “Erdoğan is acting contrary to the Constitution. He wants Turkey to be kicked out of the CoE and wants to make the country a quagmire of Middle East."

On a “white watch” since January 26, physicians protested in front of the Parliament. Turkish Medical Association Chair Prof. Korur Fincancı asked why the legislative proposal foreseeing better employee personal rights for health workers was withdrawn.