The weekend curfew will be extended to May 19, the President has announced.

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Interior Minister Soylu, HDP MP Paylan has asked the role of President Erdoğan’s hate speech such as “leftover of the sword” in the hate attacks targeting the minorities’ places of worship in Turkey.

11 international rights organizations have made a joint statement about the Friday sermon of the Presidency of Religious Affairs that targeted LGBTI+ community: “We call on Turkey to respect, guarantee, protect and fulfil fundamental rights of LGBTI+.”

The country's death toll has risen to 3,841 while total cases have reached 139,771 on the day the hair salons and shopping malls reopened.

Reports state that hygiene rules are not implemented in prisons and prisoners have difficulty accessing health care.

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minister of Greece and one of the pioneers of the newly launched Progressive International, has answered the questions of bianet about the International's founding purposes, goals and plans.

The cyanide dam will endanger drinking water, agriculture and animal husbandry in Eskişehir, says main opposition MP Utku Çakırözer.

Demet Dulkara has emigrated to the US for her daughter’s treatment. Designing clothes for children living with an abdominal feeding tube, she sells the clothes online and takes them to children at hospitals in US. Dulkara is waiting for support from the public.

Lawyer Doğan says, “Nadira Kadirova may have committed suicide. The public needs to know the causes leading to her suicide. It is the duty of the prosecutor’s office to unveil them.” Doğan also asks for support from the whole public.

The agency had restricted the banks from doing transactions with Turkish lira due to alleged "attacks" on the currency.

The unemployment decreased by 1.1 percent compared to the same month last year.

Statements of İ.İ. were used as evidence in several lawsuits against 43 people, including Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) and Grup Yorum. İ.İ. has confessed that he signed the statement under pressure and his remarks were distorted.

President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan shared a message on May 9 Europe Day. “We should seize the opportunity these difficult days offer us in a good way, in order to revitalize the relations between Turkey and the EU,” said Erdoğan.

Looking forward to inauguration in September, Progressive International has over 50 advisors from 31 countries, including Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Naomi Klein, Iceland's PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Ece Temelkuran from Turkey.

The Sub-Governor’s Office of Nusaybin has announced that the police officer who chased children playing in front of their homes with a gun and fired his gun into the air has been suspended from duty and investigated.

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation has indicated that when the speech made by imprisoned former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş is evaluated as a whole, it falls within freedom of thought and expression.

The country's death toll has risen to 3,786 with a total of 138,657 cases, according to the Health Ministry.

As the curfew has been eased for the elderly, they are allowed to go out for the first time after almost two months today. The sidewalks, avenues and streets of Şişli, İstanbul are full of people taking a walk, shopping at the bakery and having a chat.

We have spoken with activist, lesbian and mother Mine Yanat about Mother’s Day and the mothers falling outside of mainstream heteronormative definitions.

A suspect related to the attack has been detained, said the governor's office.