The Ata Ice Museum in eastern Turkey is the country's only ice museum.

Men killed at least 284 women and 26 children in 2020. Men raped 96 women, forced 818 women to sex work, harassed 147 women and abused 265 children. In 2020, men inflicted violence on and wounded at least 792 women.

With the country-wide COVID-19 vaccination campaign underway, the Ministry of Health answered some of the most frequently asked questions about vaccination.

“Our Turkish has been subjected to the biggest word massacre in our history on the way to simplifying the language,” says President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, referring to Turkey’s adoption of the Latin script in 1928 and its aftermath.

Turkey’s Ministry of Health has announced that 159 people have died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 24,487. Health Minister Koca has announced that the people aged over 85 will start to be vaccinated today.

Human rights defenders and the Ocak family have denounced President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and Interior Minister Soylu over their remarks targeting Hasan Ocak, who was tortured and disappeared in custody in 1995.

After meeting senior Iraqi and KRG officials, Minister Akar has said they have agreed on many issues, including "removing the PKK from Shingal."

While the opposition parties expect President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan to condemn the recent attacks on journalists and politicians, he says, “We will not bother with the ones wasting the country’s time with polemics based on lies and slanders.”

Five journalists and a politician have been assaulted in Turkey since January 1.

Referring to the recent physical assaults and threats targeting opposition politicians and critical journalists, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has reiterated that he expects President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and MHP Chair Bahçeli to condemn violence.

Residents of the working-class neighborhood say that their neighborhood has been declared a "risky zone" because of its closeness to a commercial center.

Journalists İzzet Tınmaz, Kıymet Sarıyıldız, Murat Uçkaç, Afşin Hatipoğlu and Orhan Uğuroğlu were physically attacked in the first 15 days of 2021. Detained over the assault on Uğuroğlu, four suspects have been released on probation.

The Scientific Advisory Board of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM) has emphasized that at least 70 percent of society must be vaccinated with effective and safe vaccines for an effective immunization.

Releasing a report titled “Turkey Experiences Intense Drought”, NASA has said, “The lack of rainfall in the past six months has dramatically reduced grain harvests and triggered drought alerts for farmers, leaving uncertainty for future crop production.”

Access blocks affected at least 1,910 URLs, 870 of the blocked URLs contained news and 26 news websites were blocked from November 2019 to October 2020.

The US will look at whether more sanctions against Turkey are needed, Blinken said one day before Biden's inauguration.

The Ministry of Health of Turkey has lifted the restrictions previously imposed on health workers’ right to take leave of absence and retire as part of coronavirus measures.

The debate between the MHP and opposition parties and journalists continues following the attacks on three people last week.

While Boğaziçi Solidarity platform has called on everyone to protest the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the new president of Boğaziçi University in Kadıköy, the Democratic University Initiative of İstanbul University will also hold a statement for the press.

Turkey’s Ministry of Health has announced that 167 people have died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 24,328. After health workers, Turkey has started vaccinating residents and workers in care and nursing homes.