The AKP's former economy minister who found a new party last year has visited the Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakır.

According to a weekly report prepared by the Education and Science Laborers’ Union (Eğitim-Sen), 141 teachers, 269 students and 22 school personnel have tested positive for coronavirus, have been identified as close contacts or quarantined.

Emine Şenyaşar lost his family members in an attack by an AKP deputy's bodyguards and relatives in Urfa during the 2018 election campaign.

According to the list of the world’s most popular artists, Leonardo da Vinci is the world’s most popular artist, winning in a total of 82 countries. Frida Kahlo ranks second, winning in 29 countries, including Turkey.

Media ombudsperson Faruk Bildirici has reviewed Minister Koca's statements about Turkey's coronavirus vaccination program.

Amnesty International’s Europe Director Muižnieks says that the continued detention of Demirtaş and Kavala "makes a mockery of the attempts to whitewash systemic human rights abuses by unveiling a meaningless Human Rights Action Plan.”

Meeting upon the call of Bingöl Bar Association, the chairs of 14 bar associations in Turkey’s eastern provinces have raised concerns about the ongoing hunger strikes in Turkey’s prisons and male violence against women.

The Health Ministry will announce the new risk map on Wednesday.

Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense has announced that ballistic missiles targeted northern Jarablus and al-Bab districts in Syria.

AKP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özlem Zengin has argued that “the practice of strip search does not mean that it is a subject of human rights violation,” adding that “she does not say that there is no such search in Turkey at all.”

HDP MP Garo Paylan has raised concerns that concrete is still being poured on an Armenian and Catholic cemetery in Ankara as part of a construction undertaken by the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ).

Speaking on March 14 Medicine Day, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan said, “We are one of the leading countries in vaccination, which we have launched starting with the riskiest groups.”

Referring to the Human Rights Action Plan unveiled by Turkey, the HRW has called on the authorities to immediately put a stop to the criminal investigation opened into women’s rights activists for shouting slogans at the March 8 assembly in İstanbul.

Rapper Burry Soprano has been arrested on charge of “inciting drug use” and sent to Silivri Prison.

Turkey’s Health Ministry has reported 13,378 coronavirus cases with 132,425 tests in a day. While 68 people have lost their lives due to the virus, 1,392 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.

Unveiling the new “Economic Reform Package” in a publicity meeting in İstanbul, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has said that the new reform package “aims to boost investment, production, jobs, and exports.”

HDP MPs met agricultural workers in Mersin. “We go to work at 4 in the morning; there are times when we cannot go back home at 9 in the evening. We cannot rest even for half an hour to eat something,” says the Precarious Workers Association Chair.

The right to life of at least 176 people was violated and 434 people were subjected to torture and ill treatment in Turkey in February, according to a recent report released by main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu.

Journalist Can Dündar, columnists Yavuz Selim Demirağ, Sabahattin Önkibar, İdris Özyol, Ahmet Takan and grant holder of a local newspaper Şaban Önen speak to bianet about the impunity ensuing physical attacks on themselves.

The child’s attorney Elif Tuğba Şahin says that both her client and his family are really sad and afraid that the other suspect has been released on probation: “They are worried about their life safety.”