Gaziantep-Kilis Medical Chamber Chair Ateş Tarla has announced that an internal medicine specialist was hit in the head with a heavy object at a public hospital in Antep.

In her legislative proposal, HDP İstanbul MP Oya Ersoy underlines that healthcare is a public right and implementing preventive health measures is of considerable importance to protect public health.

An article series will be published on cases of hate speech and disinformation in the media as part of the international Resilience Project, of which IPS Communication Foundation/ bianet from Turkey is also a partner.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 418 thousand tests were conducted, 68,413 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 156 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

The Ankara Medical Chamber has made a statement about the situation of children in Turkey’s prisons and underlined that the conditions that “push” children to crime must be improved first.

The Antalya City Monitoring Platform has documented violations of the right to the city in Antalya in 2021, finding that profit-based interventions in nature as well as racist and discriminatory policies were the leading factors behind the violations.

With his request for visiting Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk rejected by the Justice Ministry, HDP MP Gergerlioğlu made a press statement in front of the Kandıra Prison. He has faced an investigation shortly afterwards.

News camera operator Rojhat Doğru, put on trial for attending the 2014 Kobanî protests where he was covering news, has been given a life sentence and 12 years, 1 month in prison. An arrest warrant has also been issued against the journalist.

Arrested as part of the operation against the HDP on November 4, 2016 and sentenced to 8 years in prison, Abdullah Zeydan is given a ruling of release in the retrial held after the Court of Cassation overturned the previous local court ruling.

Ahead of their first hearing on January 7, four rights organizations have made a joint statement calling for the unconditional release of Berke Gök and Perit Özen, who have been arrested after protesting the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University.

In the trial of the man who attacked Syrian refugee and trans woman Asya with acid, the appeals court has overturned the local court verdict and increased his prison sentence to 12 years. Lawyer Tosun has welcomed the appeals court ruling.

HDP Kocaeli MP Gergerlioğlu, also a physician, speaks to bianet about the contradictory medical reports on jailed politician Aysel Tuğluk. According to the MP, the report of the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution does not contain medical statements.

Put on trial for reporting on torture in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van, journalists Bilen, Uğur, Abi, Sala and Durgut have been acquitted of “membership of a terrorist organization”. Sala is given a deferred prison sentence for “propaganda”.

According to main opposition CHP Vice Chair Biçer-Karaca’s report, women constituted one of the groups most severely affected by the increasing violations of rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis in Turkey in 2021.

Lawyer Efkan Bolaç wrote on Twitter on July 16, 2016: “Nothing so bad but it might have been worse, we have seen this, too. The diktat enthusiasts who staged a coup against the diktat have turned the country into a fireground.”

With a legislative proposal approved by the Parliament, the fines to be imposed for stockpiling have been increased and the management of privatized ports in Turkey may be extended to 49 years without tenders.

While Turkey has recently reported the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Koca has released a statement after the Coronavirus Science Board meeting and announced that the quarantine period for positive cases will be 7 days.

In compliance with the Constitutional Court ruling based on civil inspectors’ report, an administrative court has concluded that the administration was at fault at the level of negligence in the October 10 Ankara massacre and accepted the request for damages.

Mezopotamya Agency Managing Editor Ferhat Çelik was detained on the night of January 4. He gave his statement both at the prosecutor’s office and the judgeship. After he was released, he was detained again and gave another statement to the police.

The government has answered the Parliamentary question of Left Party (Die Linke) MP Sevim Dağdelen in Germany and said that there is an increase in Ankara’s “espionage” activities against dissidents from Turkey. Dağdelen herself is also targeted.