Police attacked metal workers’ march from Kocaeli to the capital city. Demanding their right to unionize, workers staged a sit-in protest in front of the office of United Metal Workers’ Union. Police took the detained to the security office in municipality busses.

Shortly after Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Dindar Karataş was detained in a house raid in early morning hours today, the MA Bureau in Van has been raided by the police, computers and hard disks have been seized.

Ahead of November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, bianet male violence monitoring report shows that men killed at least 253 women and inflicted violence on at least 715 women from January 1 to November 21, 2020.

“There is no need for a reform in laws, there is a need for a reform not in the judiciary, but in the mindset. And this happens by ensuring that the judiciary is independent,” says Ankara Bar Association Chair Erinç Sağkan.

Gülistan Doku, a student of Munzur University in Dersim, has been missing since January 5, 2020. The search efforts for the missing woman were ongoing in the Uzunçayır Dam Lake, near which Doku was last seen.

“If the executive keeps its hands off the judiciary, it will be the first judicial reform,” says İstanbul Bar Association Chair Mehmet Durakoğlu.

“As long as no measures are taken against the judges and prosecutors who defy the ECtHR and Constitutional Court judgements, no progress can be made with changes that remain only on the legislation level,” says Diyarbakır Bar Chair Aydın.

The CHP's İstanbul chair is accused of having a party member take photographs of an allegedly illegal construction work by the communications director.

The shop owners who had to close down their businesses due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have protested in Kadıköy, İstanbul, chanting the slogan, “Budget for shop owners, not for the palace.”

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Dindar Karataş has been detained in a house raid in İpekyolu district in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van.

While the Ministry of Health has announced that 153 people lost their lives due to COVID-19 across Turkey on November 23, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s Cemeteries Department has indicated that 201 people died of infectious disease in İstanbul.

The Health Ministry has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 12,511 and the total number of patients to 453,535. 153 people have died of the virus and the number of new patients has been announced as 6,713 in the last 24 hours.