The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has decided to hold a rally where the demands of the working class and laborers are widely expressed. The rally will take place in İstanbul on December 12, 2021.

The administration of daily Cumhuriyet has announced that “the decision to cancel the labor contracts of eight employees has been halted.”

Journalist Mimar Kaya, who filmed the argument between the police and the driver of a service vehicle in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province, was taken into custody. He has been released after giving his statement.

Launching a similar campaign itself, Siirt Municipality has requested damages from dismissed co-mayors Işık and Turhan and 23 municipal council members who were investigated for "writing off the default interest of outstanding water bills."

According to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit Van’s Tuşba district; the Kandilli Observatory of Boğaziçi University has announced the magnitude as 5. No losses of life or property have been reported.

Briefly detained for dancing on the gate of the Surp Takavor Armenian Church in İstanbul’s Kadıköy in July 2021, three people now face up to 1 year in prison each for “publicly degrading the religious values of a segment of society.”

The İstanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the three people who were briefly arrested as part of the operations against the waste paper workers in Ümraniye district.

According to the data of the İstanbul Planning Agency, the cost of living has increased by 50.18 percent in İstanbul in a year. The housing rents in the city have also increased by 71.43 percent, the study has shown.

Ankara Bar Association Chair Erinç Sağkan has been elected the new Chair of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), defeating Metin Feyzioğlu by receiving the votes of 181 delegates out of 348. Feyzioğlu has received 156 votes.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the authorities in Turkey to ensure that jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş is released from prison immediately in compliance with the ECtHR ruling.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 350 thousand tests were conducted, 19,357 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 185 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

Police first raided the home and then called the lawyer by phone to summon her to testify, Keskin has said.

The SES union protests a new additional indicator law that excludes health workers other than doctors and nurses.

Details of the Committee of Ministers resolution concerning Turkey's failure to release Osman Kavala despite an ECtHR judgment and what is expected from Turkey until the January 19 deadline.

The court ruled that Musa O., a discharged specialized sergeant, should be sentenced to 12 years in prison on charge of “aggravated sexual assault”. The court board has reduced his prison sentence by two years due to “good conduct”.

Questioning the accuracy of the TurkStat figures, Kılıçdaroğlu wanted to visit officials of the statistical authority. He was not allowed to enter the building.

The Ministry of Interior’s Directorate General of Civil Society Relations has requested an administrative sanction against 11 associations which have "received donations" from the US-based Chrest Foundation.

Shortly before the state agency TurkStat announced the official consumer inflation rate in Turkey in November 2021 as 21.31 percent, the Inflation Research Group (ENAG) had announced its own figure: 58.65 percent.

The annual inflation rate stood at 21.32 percent and the monthly inflation rate was 3.51 percent, according to the TurkStat.

Aykut Küçükkaya has been removed from office as the Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper after he expressed support in a protest for eight employees, all members of a union, following their dismissal.