Arrested for protesting “to get their jobs back”, six people were sent to prisons in different cities though the lawsuit was filed in Ankara. The court has now ruled that they shall stand trial via the Audio and Visual Information System due to the pandemic.

The 59-year-old Rexx Cinema had to shut its doors in March, after the pandemic started.

Journalist Ayşegül Doğan has been sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison. Put on trial over her journalistic activities, Doğan was the Program Coordinator of the İMC TV, which was closed by a Statutory Decree after the coup attempt in 2016.

Main opposition CHP Dersim MP Polat Şaroğlu has announced that the temporary permission given to US businessperson Garrett van Hoose for hunting a mountain goat in Dersim province has been revoked.

A woman prisoner told bianet that she was tortured by gendarmerie officers after refusing to be searched for the third time when she was being taken to the court.

Eight Kurdish songs from Radio Yerevan, which has an archive of hundreds of Kurdish songs, have been interpreted anew in classical music and shared on digital platforms as part of a project entitled “Dîsa” (Anew).

The Directorate General of Security has announced that 27 people have been detained over their social media posts about an incident where a child was sexually abused in Batman, allegedly by men including police officers, sergeants and village guards.

Turkey started including asymptomatic cases in its daily count on November 25.

An international group of 12 women’s networks and platforms has issued a joint declaration to raise concerns and awareness about the discrimination, violence, hardship, and human rights violations faced by women worldwide.

The İstanbul Statistical Office has published its second “İstanbul Barometer.” The results of the survey show that a possible earthquake, economic problems and transportation are the major problems of the city according to citizens.

This year's rainfall was below the average of the past years, said Minister Pakdemirli.

Yet another access block was imposed on the website of JinNews news agency by a court decision on December 4. JinNews now publishes its news on its new address "http://www.jinnews15.xyz/”.

After it was reported in the press that 27 men including specialist sergeants, police officers and village guards sexually abused a child, one man from the same village has been arrested as part of the investigation launched into the incident.

Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has announced that 63 health workers, including 17 physicians, lost their lives due to COVID-19 in Turkey in November. According to Diyarbakır Medical Chamber, 16 health workers have so far died of the virus in the city.

“As they are face to face [with people], our colleagues must be vaccinated against COVID-19 right after healthcare workers so that they can work in an healthy environment,” says Yılmaz Karaca, the Chair of the Federation of Journalists of Turkey.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 14,900 and the total number of patients to 539,291. 195 people have died of the virus and the number of new cases has been announced as 30,402 in the last 24 hours.

In addition to China, the government is also considering buying vaccines from Russia, the president has said.

A Turkey-wide curfew will be effective between 9 p.m. today and 5 a.m. Monday.

Turkey has seen a record number of new cases again while the İstanbul municipality's death toll exceeded the ministry's count for the entire country.

The governor's office said the child was killed after soldiers "fired shots in the air."