“The ones supporting marginal movements against our belief and culture are partners in the same perversion,” Erdoğan said and added: “I invite all members of my nation to come out against the ones displaying any type of perversion forbidden by our god.”

Total cases have neared 200,000 while the number of active cases are slightly more than 20,000, according to the Ministry of Health.

Sevil Rojbin Çetin was tortured for hours in her home in Diyarbakır by the special operations police during a raid, the HDP has stated.

Addressing a letter to the UN for jailed women’s rights activists, human rights defenders have requested that the Special Rapporteurs "urge the government to stop prosecuting the expression of critical opinions and right to assembly.”

In an operation against the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), 43 people were detained on June 26 and eight of them have so far been arrested.

A cycling group of transgenders rode from Kurtuluş district to Taksim yesterday.

According to a recent survey conducted in Diyarbakır amid pandemic, 61.2 percent of businesses operating in the province have credit debt to banks in short, medium or long term. 84 percent say relief packages fall short of covering their losses.

The ruling party's candidate was mandated in Diyarbakır's Bağlar district although the HDP candidate won the election by 71 percent of the votes.

The family of Koçak, a death-fasting prisoner who lost his life shortly after he was forced-fed and subjected to battery and sexual harassment while being tied to bed, has filed a criminal complaint against the officials responsible for his death.

After prisoners' access to hygiene supplies has been restricted, scabies and diarrhea outbreaks are being observed in prisons, the CİSST association has stated.

The Constitutional Court has ruled that a criminal complaint shall be filed against the party officials who accepted a donation from a person who was not a citizen of Turkey.

“As the due consideration is not given to protective and preventive health services, obesity increased by 38.9 percent in 11 years,” main opposition CHP MP Akkuş-İlgezdi has noted.

After having thousands of "troll" accounts suspended by Twitter and being forced to cancel the "ethics" campaign following sexual harassment tweets, a new social media move by Erdoğan's party has ignited a "No vote" campaign against him.

Having used only the word “son-in-law” without uttering any names or titles in his speech, lawyer and BJK Council Board member Ali Rıza Dizdar now faces an investigation on charge of insult.

Four members of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Administrative Board have called on Metin Feyzioğlu to resign from office as the TBB Chair.

We have spoken with MP Garo Paylan and Prof. Taner Akçam about the government's reported preparations to set up an "autonomous agency" to work against the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Detained as part of an investigation against the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), eight of 16 people have been arrested while the rest have been released on probation.

Answering the Parliamentary question of HDP MP Orhan, Vice President Oktay has announced that 53 newspapers, 20 magazines, 24 radio channels and six news agencies have been closed by statutory decrees since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

In response to a Parliamentary question by CHP MP Tanrıkulu regarding ill prisoners, Minister of Justice Gül has announced that 1,582 prisoners have been released due to their disabilities or illnesses since 2013.

The party has not disclosed the name of the MP but stated that his/her health condition is getting better.