The Meyra Mining Company has been expanding its copper-lead-zinc mine in Bursa despite all objections of villagers. The women of Kirazlıyayla say that water sources of the village are destroyed and cattle do not graze in the pasture any longer.

Ahead of the first hearing of the trial over violence against a child worker in Afyon, Ezgi Koman has called on everyone to stand up against the economic exploitation of children and impunity for violations of children’s rights.

The Health Ministry has released the weekly provincial COVID-19 rates. The new numbers have shown that the number of cases per 100,000 people was over 804 in Istanbul and 419 in the capital city of Ankara on April 3-9.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s daily COVID-19 case number is 59,187. While 273 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours, 2,951 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Over the past week, the number of daily new cases in Turkey was over 50,000.

The opposition accuses the government of draining the Central Bank's foreign exchange reserves in a bid to prevent the US dollar's hike.

The number of unemployed people was over 10 million in February, according to the DİSK-AR.

Protesting Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention in front of the Presidency’s Communications Office in Konak, four women from the Free Young Woman (ÖGK) and Socialist Women’s Assemblies (SKM) have been detained.

The Artvin Bar Association was established in 1970. After 51 years, Ayla Varan has been the first woman elected as the chair of the bar association. The bar’s executive committee consists of 16 people, 11 of whom are women.

Turkey's TB2 Bayraktar armed drones are equipped with imaging and targeting systems provided by a Canada-based company.

The constituents of Boğaziçi University have been protesting the appointed rector for 100 days. Marking this day, students have said, “We have been resisting as a generation who has been a witness to how the ambition for power ruins the country.”

Investigating the lawyer over a social media post, prosecutors ordered the confiscation of his phone to look for other "indications of crime."

A lawsuit has been filed against journalist Cihan Ölmez over his statements to the press regarding curfews. The prosecutor has defined daily Evrensel and bianet as “so-called media outlets backing the organization.”

Lawyer Yeşim Aydın says that defendant Yaşar E. has been arrested and sent to prison for sexually abusing a 2-year-old child. Aydın underlines that the man has 17 offenses in his criminal record, eight of them are sexual abuse.

The European Court of Human Rights has handed down its judgement on jailed journalist-writer Ahmet Altan and journalist Murat Aksoy. The court has concluded that their freedom of expression has been violated.

The Turkish Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Association has released a statement about the recent situation in Turkey amid the pandemic, underlining that the outbreak needs to be managed based on scientific data.

Both the doctor and the prosecutor filed a lawsuit against each other after the incident.

Sirvart Melikyan, the wife of Aram Tigran, who was a prominent musician singing in Kurdish, has signed a copyright agreement with the German-Kurdish Cultural Institute. All works of the late musician will be now released again.

A petition has been launched for priest Bileçen, who has been sentenced to prison: “We demand that the government drop all charges against the monk, who only acted according to his values and gave bread and water to those who asked for it.”

The judgeship has ruled that 13 retired admirals shall be released “on the condition that they do not leave their residential areas.” Facing a request for his arrest, retired admiral Mengi has been released with an intercity and international travel ban.