The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for September 2020. According to the TurkStat, the unemployment rate was 12.7 percent in September, which marked a 1.1 percentage point decrease.

With the execution of his prison sentence deferred after his death fast for a fair trial, lawyer Aytaç Ünsal has been taken into custody in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne “because he was suspected to flee abroad.”

Turkey has lost 216 health workers to the virus so far, Minister Koca has said.

34 workers of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality have so far lost their lives due to coronavirus, according to Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has reiterated his call for a total lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.

We have spoken with MEP Sergey Lagodinsky and the European Council's Turkey Unit Head Bernard Brunet about Brussels-Ankara relations.

More than 80 workers have been dismissed from the Ekmekçioğulları Metal Factory in Çorum province on the day when the United Metal Workers’ Union was granted the right to represent workers by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.

“Our common aim and demand is for a dignified and serene life, in a just, free and peaceful country, where our daily bread and health will be safe and secure,” say 805 citizens from different professions and institutions on the occasion of Human Rights Day.

According to the Press in Arrest report, in the trials concerning these 40 journalists, the prosecutor’s offices demanded 2 aggravated life sentences and a total of 201 years, 4 months to 497 years 2 months in prison.

In an open letter to the President, Ministers of Interior and Justice and Turkey’s ambassadors to the UN and EU, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Gökalp.

HDP Group Deputy Chair Oluç has responded to Erdoğan, who has recently stated that “he does not think Turkey’s judiciary will allow for [the release of] a terrorist like Demirtaş.” Oluç has said, “He is openly commiting a Constitutional crime.”

“Though it is absolutely prohibited and considered a crime against humanity under the universal law, which Turkey is also a part of, torture has been the major human rights problem in the country in 2020 as well,” says a joint statement by the İHD and TİHV.

Minister Koca has announced the total number of cases for the first time and said the ministry has only been reporting the deaths with s positive PCR test.