“Imposing an unelected presidential-appointee rector on a university with no consultation demonstrates a lack of respect for academic freedom and the autonomy of universities in Turkey,” says HRW’s Williamson amid Boğaziçi University protests.

LGBTI+s have been targeted by government officials during the protests that have been going on at the university for one-and-a-half months.

Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has answered the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Bayır regarding the number of doctors who resigned during the pandemic. 2,412 doctors resigned, according to Koca’s answer.

Schools were partially reopened on Monday after staying closed for about two months.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has shared the results of its “Life Satisfaction Survey” for 2020. While 52.4 percent said that they were happy in 2019, this rate dropped to 48.2 percent last year.

Constitutional Court has given its ruling regarding the police violence against former bianet reporter Beyza Kural after 5.5 years. The Court has concluded that it was intended as humiliation to say, “Nothing is the same anymore, we will make you learn this.”

Turkey will gradually start easing restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus as of March, President Erdoğan has announced.

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has announced that various food products have been bought from women's cooperatives in Anatolian provinces and they will be handed out to people in need in İstanbul.

An Environmental Impact Assessment report has been prepared to extend the 14-hectare granite quarry to 110 hectares. The report covering an area in Bergama and Ayvalık in the north Aegean foresees the cutting of nearly 9 thousand stone pines.

The Health and Social Service Laborers’ Union (SES) conducted a survey with healthcare workers in 52 provinces across Turkey: 81 percent of women are subjected to psychological violence and 26 percent to sexual violence.

Amid ongoing protests of Boğaziçi University students and faculty against the appointed rector, 252 musicians have released a joint statement underlining that the political authority must keep its hands off universities, academics and students.

Turkey’s Health Ministry has announced that the country’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 27,738. The country has seen 7,325 new infections while the number of daily tests has been below 120 thousand.

Earlier, the president called the main opposition leader an "impudent man" for saying that he was responsible for the killings of the security personnel in Iraq's Gare.

"We are facing a government that doesn't take responsibility. The government, which announces the good news when it succeeds, has the governor make a statement when it fails," Danış-Beştaş has said.

With the enactment of the law on multiple bar associations and the establishment of a second bar in İstanbul, the İstanbul Bar Association has announced that public lawyers are pressured into changing their bar associations.

Ahead of the International Mother Language Day on February 21, Diyarbakır-based Socio-Political Field Research Center has conducted a study shedding light on how frequently people speak in their mother languages in public.

Environmental groups have been opposing to the planned new coal-fired plants in, Maraş one of the provinces with the highest air pollution in Turkey.

Pronouncing his opinion as to the accusations at the second hearing, the prosecutor has demanded up to 4 years, 8 months in prison for actors Müjdat Gezen and Metin Akpınar over their remarks during a TV program.

A doctor was sentenced to prison after calling Alevis "terrorists" during a medical examination.

Akşener has criticized President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan for talking to the mother of a deceased security officer during an AKP rally. “Your duty is to keep those mothers’ sons and daughters alive,” the İYİ Party Chair has said.