The country's death toll has reached 4,340 with a total of 156,827 cases, the Health Ministry has announced.

The CHP's former deputy head in İzmir has been remanded in custody for "provoking people into hatred and animosity" after sharing videos that show mosques blaring the "Bella Ciao" song.

The Health Ministry has reported 32 deaths and 1,186 cases for the past 24 hours.

The number of new cases were under 1,000 for the third day in a row.

A program on Ülke TV has been suspended for three episodes after a guest said she had a list of people to kill in case of a coup attempt against the government.

With heavy penalties against critical media outlets, authorities are interfering with people's right to information and attempting to intimidate journalists, says the Turkish Journalists Association.

In a statement released by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, it has been announced that 72 prisoners are treated in an isolated area and 10 prisoners in medical institutions. A convict with chronic lung diseases has died of Covid-19.

The Press Advertisement Institution (BİK) has fined daily BirGün over two separate news reports on Turkish Red Crescent. The public ads of the daily have been cut for 7 days.

Aygül Doku, the elder sister of Gülistan Doku, who has been missing for 139 days, has spoken to bianet about her sister.

Restricted from going out since April 4 as part of COVID-19 measures, young people aged between 15 and 20 were allowed to go out for the second time today. They met with their friends and fed street animals. Here are some pictures from around Turkey...

The prosecutor’s office has issued an indictment into the killing of Ali El Hemdan by a security officer in Adana: There was no chase between the two, the officer did not stagger and put the cartridge in the barrel after Hemdan turned his face towards him.

HDP Central Executive Committee member Özlem Gündüz, DBP former Co-Chair Mehmet Arslan, Rosa Women’s Association founding members and Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activists have been detained in the operation.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the kingdom's consulate in İstanbul and his body has never been found.

The municipality has drawn circles to help people maintain social distance on the city's coastline.

The Press Advertisement Institution (BİK) has cut the public ads of daily Cumhuriyet for 35 days over its new report “There is illegal construction in Bosphorus” about Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun.

Two people were shortly detained for "publicly degrading religious values," the prosecutor's office has announced.

Raising concerns over the detrimental effects of unfiltered coal-fired thermal plants on human health, Greenpeace has applied to the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and requested the halt of their operation without waiting for the end of 2020.

In a written statement, the Ecology Union has warned that Diyarbakır’s Hevsel Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, face a threat of devastation and ecological destruction due to construction works for a nation’s garden project.

Central Bank has reduced the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) from 8.75 to 8.25 percent. “While uncertainties on global economic recovery remain high, normalization steps taken by several countries are being watched,” the Bank has said.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, it has been announced that 10,111 social media accounts have been probed due to “provocative” and “baseless” coronavirus posts in the last 65 days.