Covid cases near 40,000 as the UK variant has become the dominant type of the virus in the country.

The MHP leader lashed out at the top court after it returned an indictment seeking the closure of the HDP on procedural grounds.

The Constitutional Court rejected the application against Gergerlioğlu's expulsion from the parliament.

"Our country's resolve to promote and protect human rights remains firm," the ministry has said.

While cafes and restaurants have been allowed to work for certain periods during the pandemic, bars and taverns have been completely closed.

Put on unpaid leave and dismissed with “Code 29” for joining a labor union, workers of Migros, a chain of supermarkets, protested in front of the house of Tuncay Özilhan, the head of Anadolu Group. 16 workers have been detained.

Examining the indictment issued against the HDP by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation, the Constitutional Court has found procedural deficiencies. The Office will send the indictment back after rectifying them.

The Constitutional Court rapporteur yesterday requested the indictment to be returned for the rectification of procedural deficiencies.

The bolder President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gets, the quieter the EU, says HRW's Philippe Dam.

The Women’s Rights Center of the Diyarbakır Bar Association has shared the findings of its examination on 2,097 case files heard by family courts.

The Education and Science Laborers’ Union (Eğitim-Sen) has appealed to the Council of State and filed an annulment action against Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decision.

Killed by her ex-husband despite 23 criminal complaints and several protection orders, Ayşe Tuba Arslan’s parents filed a suit for damages. The Ministries of Justice, Interior and Family have presented their defense statements as part of this case.

The canal project would add more to the city's more than a million empty homes and destroy agricultural lands, İmamoğlu has said.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), Turkey’s foreign trade deficit was 3 billion 299 million dollars in February 2021, which marks a 8.7 percent increase when compared with February 2020.

HDP's Gergerlioğlu was stripped of his parliamentary seat on March 17.

US Department of State has released its 2020 country report on human rights practices in Turkey, listing a series of violations of rights including “torture”, “limited steps to investigate and penalize members of security forces” and “violence against minorities.”

In a letter to Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, HDP Co-Chairs Buldan and Sancar have denounced the Ministry's remarks calling on the party “to clearly distance itself from the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation also in the EU.”

Turkey’s Central Bank Governor Kavcıoğlu has said that the bank will continue to set the policy rate at a level above inflation, preserving the strong disinflationary effect, until there are strong indicators that point to a permanent fall in inflation.

Meral Akşener, the Chair of the opposition İYİ Party, has applied to the Council of State and filed an annulment action against the Presidential decision withdrawing Turkey from the İstanbul Convention.

George R.R. Martin, the author of the series of epic fantasy novels adapted into Game of Thrones, has sent a message to Turkey in the wake of the country’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention: “Stay strong.”