Amid heavy snowfall in İstanbul, İstanbul Airport has been closed until 1 pm and Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen Airports until 4 am today, January 25. Entries to İstanbul through the TEM highway from Anatolia and Thrace have also been stopped.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 401 thousand tests were conducted, 67,023 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 156 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Journalist Sedef Kabaş was arrested for "insulting the president" during a program on TELE1. The media regulatory body has fined TELE1 and Fox TV over remarks about the president.

The Chaldean couple went missing in Turkey's southeast two years ago. Şimuni Diril's body was found, but Hürmüz Diril is still missing. HDP deputy Danış-Beştaş has submitted a motion regarding the issue.

Trendyol raised the salaries of its workers by only 11 percent despite the 36 percent official inflation rate.

HDP Diyarbakır MP Tosun has applied to the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission: “Prisoners say that the prison administration commits psychological torture, they are subjected to wardens’ arbitrary practices and they do not have life safety.”

The İstanbul Branch of the İHD has released a statement about the threats against musician Sezen Aksu over a song and the arrest of journalist Sedef Kabaş: “It shows that we do not have much time left to say stop to this dangerous course of events.”

İstanbul and Ankara, the capital, are among the cities where the case density increased the most in a week.

In the trial over the killing of Deniz Poyraz in HDP İzmir office, arrested defendant Onur Gencer said, "I don’t regret the bloody raid that I carried out. If I had been there five minutes earlier, I would have launched an attack with lots of corpses.”

The Kurdish politician whose health is deteriorating should be released according to laws and the Constitution, the law associations said.

CHP MP Purçu has also referred to the data shared by the İzmir Bar Association, which has announced that the number of lawyers assigned to child abuse cases increased from 1,078 in 2020 to 1,470 in 2021.

Journalist Sedef Kabaş was detained during a midnight raid after her words about President Erdoğan.

In the Parliamentary elections held in Northern Cyprus a year ahead of the scheduled date, the National Unity Party has received 39.82 of votes while the Republican Turkish Party has received 31.46 percent.

Renowned for her roles in several cult movies, with the 60s and 70s as her most productive years, actress and former İstanbul Şişli Mayor Fatma Girik has lost her life.

In the face of targeting remarks and threats over a song, including from President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, 203 artists have expressed their solidarity with musician Sezen Aksu: “We will not lose even a single one of us.”

Amid heavy snowfall in Turkey, pregnant public workers and the ones with disabilities are given administrative leave in 28 cities. While today and tomorrow are snow days for universities in İstanbul, motorcycle couriers will not work until further notice.

HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Saruhan Oluç attended the HDP Adana Provincial Congress: “You will see that you will be unable to bring the HDP to its knees. Kurdish people have never bowed down to atrocity and injustice.”

As Iran has cut natural gas flow to Turkey due to a technical failure on the transmission line, the Electricity Transmission Corporation has decided to restrict electricity distribution to organized industrial zones for 3 days starting from today, January 24.

In the trial regarding the demand for including the HPV vaccine in Turkey’s national immunization program, the panel of experts has concluded that the vaccine is medically necessary in the face of cervical cancer.

People’s Liberation Party (HKP) Chair Efe made a press statement in front of the courthouse after giving his statement as to his alleged insult for Erdoğan. He is now investigated for “insulting the President” over this statement.