Minister Çavuşoğlu has spoken to journalists at a year-end meeting in Ankara.

More than 100 defendants have received prison sentences for "attempted violation of the constitutional order."

İstanbul Aydın University held a ceremony for academic Aylin Sözer, who was killed in a feminicide in İstanbul yesterday. “We have lost the apple of our eye,” said University President Prof. Yadigar İzmirli.

A group monitoring the violations of free expression in Turkey has released a report about the country's legal practices concerning ECtHR decisions.

The police officer who broke Danacı’s arm while intervening in a protest has been sentenced to 1 year, 8 months in prison; but, as the court has concluded that “he will not commit a crime again,” the announcement of the verdict has been deferred.

The İstanbul 3rd Administrative Court has cancelled the “Grand Mosque” project to be undertaken by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization upon the request of the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Kadıköy district in the Anatolian side of İstanbul.

Underlining that air pollution increases the severity of coronavirus, the Right to Clean Air Platform has shared expert opinions about the issue. The platform has also offered its own recommendations for clean air in 2021.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that the ruling of house arrest given “without concrete evidence and the fulfilment of conditions for imposing judicial control measures” violated the applicant’s right to personal liberty and security.

While Emine Erdoğan, the spouse of President Erdoğan, has said, “It opens a deep wound in our hearts”, Minister of Justice Gül and Minister of Family and Labor Zümrüt Selçuk have stressed that “the judiciary will do what is necessary.”

The troops will start their duty once the construction of the monitoring center is completed, the minister of defense has said.

A penal judgeship of peace has imposed an access block on social media platform Ekşi Sözlük’s a number of pages such as “Destruction of Dipsiz (Fathomless) Lake by governor’s permission” and “Restoration of Dipsiz Lake to its previous state.”

An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.0 in Turkey's largest city is expected imminently.

Put on trial over his social media posts and charged with “terror propaganda”, musician Ferhat Tunç’s trial continued at the 37th İstanbul Heavy Penal Court. The Darmstadt Prosecutor’s Office has rejected Turkey's request for taking his statement in Germany.

The layoff ban and short time work allowance have been in place since the early days of the pandemic.

The plane carrying 3 million doses of SinoVac vaccine from China landed at Esenboğa Airport in the capital city of Ankara at 05.44 a.m. local time today.

Amid ongoing debates on strip search in Turkey, Human Rights Association (İHD), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and Turkish Medical Association (TTB) have released a statement raising concerns about “the new and changing face of torture.”

Kavala has made a statement after Constitutional Court rejected his application: “The most common and severe problem in the judiciary is the detention practices taken under the influence of political messages and the political environment.”

The United Kingdom (UK) has signed its first “free trade agreement” for the post-Brexit period with Turkey. Trade Minister Pekcan has announced that the new deal covering all industrial, agricultural goods is set to take effect on January 1.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll has risen to 20,388. While 253 people have died of the virus in the last 24 hours, the number of new cases has been announced as 15,805.

Mehmet T. has been taken into custody after reportedly shooting his spouse dead.