İlhan Taşçı, a member of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) from the CHP, says that RTÜK Chair Şahin “sent an instruction to the executives of TV channels on private line, asking them to not use jam-packed images.”

The Governor’s Office of Turkey’s eastern province of Van has once again banned public protest meetings and marches for another 15 days.

Speaking to bianet, main opposition CHP MPs Bekaroğlu and Tanal have announced that they filed a criminal complaint about the opening of a stone quarry in Cevizlik village in Rize and the destruction of nature and drinking water.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 340 people died of coronavirus and nearly 26 thousand people tested positive with slightly over 240 thousand tests in a day. The country will now drop PCR test obligation for visitors from 16 countries.

Workers and students who wanted to reach İstanbul’s Taksim Square through Ömer Hayyam, Mecidiyeköy, Kazancı Slope and Osmanbey for the 1st of May have been detained by the police. Five people have also been taken into custody in Ankara.

The video of the "The Voices of Those Who Lost Their Loved Ones / 1 May 1977 and Impunity," e-book is online with voices of the loved ones of those who lost their lives and dubbing artist Senan Kara.

The president has said that he will talk about the vaccine issue with his counterparts in China and Russia.

"Emergency use of Sputnik V vaccine was approved following the assessments and evaluations by our Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency," Turkey’s Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has announced.

The Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) has revealed the circular of the Directorate General of Security, which bans capturing the images of police officers.

The government has imposed a controversial de facto ban on alcoholic beverage sales during a 17-day lockdown that started yesterday.

Published by bianet as an e-book as well, the series of "The Voices of Those Who Lost Their Loved Ones/ 1 May ‘77 and Impunity" is now preparing to meet its English-speaking audience, starting from the 1st of May.

The Presidential decision extending the lay-off ban till June 30, 2021 and the Presidential decision extending the period of financial support to shopkeepers and artisans for another month have been published in the Official Gazette.

In the face of the Presidential Decision pulling Turkey out of the İstanbul Convention as per the Article 3 of the Presidential Decree no. 9, women keep on saying, “İstanbul Convention is ours, we don’t give it up.”

"We have been able to agree that I will convene in the near future another meeting of the 5+1, again with the objective to move in the direction of reaching the common ground to allow for formal negotiations to start," says UN Secretary General Guterres.

The court of appeals has reversed the prison sentence of food engineer Asst. Prof. Bülent Şık for sharing the results of the Health Ministry’s cancer research with the public. His 15-month prison sentence has been overturned, Şık has been acquitted.

The Ankara Bar has appealed to the Council of State and requested the suspension of the execution of the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages imposed on shops during the ‘full lockdown’ despite not being included in the Interior Ministry’s circular.

Amid reports of human smuggling with service-stamped passports as part of municipal programs, an investigation has been launched against 30 people suspected to bring or attempt to bring at least 213 people to Germany in October-November.

According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 339 people died of coronavirus and over 37 thousand people tested positive with less than 280 thousand tests conducted in a day. 3,581 COVID-19 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

In the most crowded May Day celebrations in decades, three people were shot dead by police. We interviewed their families and loved ones and witnesses of the incidents.

Banned by governor’s offices in several provinces, May Day is celebrated today ahead of the ‘full lockdown’. Police intervened against the celebrations in Ankara and İzmir, taking several people into custody.