Shortly after TurkStat, the state agency producing official statistics on the country, announced the annual consumer inflation rate in Turkey as 14.6 percent, the Inflation Research Group (ENAG), founded by a group of academics, has shared its own estimate.

The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services has declared a children’s book featuring a “rainbow” story a “harmful publication”. The book will now be sold in an opaque envelope or package and only to those aged 18 and older.

Turkey’s Ministry of Trade has imposed a fine of over 20 thousand lira to Evrensel newspaper over its 25th anniversary video broadcast on TELE1 channel and featuring a girl who is holding a scarf in yellow, green and red.

Several MPs, artists, physicians and scientists have been campaigning on social media, demanding that the three quarters of Turkey’s 2020 grand New Year lottery prize transferred to the Wealth Fund be used for the treatment of children with SMA.

According to the “Consumer Price Index” announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), in December 2020, the only annual decrease was recorded in the prices of clothing and footwear with 0.32 percent.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an ex officio investigation against Fikri Sağlar on charge of “inciting the public to enmity and hatred.”

While flights from the United Kingdom (UK) to Turkey have been suspended amid a new coronavirus strain, flights from Turkey to the UK and from the UK to other countries reportedly continue.

Main opposition CHP MP Tekin has criticized the government over Minister of Environment and Urbanization Kurum's announcement that “2021 will be a year when the Canal İstanbul project will start and proceed quickly.”

Amid harsh criticisms of students and faculty members, Prof. Bulu, who has been appointed by Erdoğan to the Presidency of Boğaziçi University outside its community, has shared a message on his Twitter account, welcoming his appointment to the position.

Published in languages such as Circassian, Laz, Abkhazian and Gagauz, the calendar raises publicity about endangered languages in Turkey.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to 21,488. While 193 people have died of the virus in the last 24 hours, the number of new cases has been announced as 9,877 and the number of daily tests under 140 thousand.

Faculty members of Boğaziçi, one of the most prestigious universities in Turkey, have denounced the appointment of Prof. Bulu, an academic outside its community, to the Presidency of Boğaziçi University: “We don’t accept, we don’t give up!”

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The country's coronavirus outbreak turned out to be much worse than what the ministry reported, the government increased its grip on freedom of expression, rights violations and legal struggles continued.

The journalists claim to shed light on behind-the-scenes affairs concerning the government and the judiciary.

“2020 was an indication that the 18-year policies of the AKP government were misogynist and how not a single step had been taken for women’s good for 18 years,” says HDP Women Assembly’s Spokesperson Ayşe Acar Başaran.

A curfew will start tonight and end on Monday morning.

Holding a press statement in Diyarbakır, the MEBYA-DER, an association solidarizing with the families who lost their relatives, has called on the government to stop attacking dead bodies and give people’s dead bodies to their families.

The media regulatory body has imposed fines on broadcasters for several reasons, including remarks targeting refugees, students and the president.

“In doing their academic studies or sharing their opinions with their students in class, most of the academics in the field of Kurdish Studies try to foresee which opinions and notions will overstep the red lines of the state or might be penalized,” says the report.