Portakal is charged with violating the Banking Law after a complaint by Turkey's banking agency.

Held in İmralı Prison, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has talked to his brother Mehmet Öcalan for the first time after 21 years. The other three inmates imprisoned in İmralı have also talked to their families on the phone.

The 0.8 percentage point fall was driven by the downward revision in the projections of the output gap and food inflation, the Central Bank governor has said.

According to the Foreign Trade Statistics shared by the TurkStat, exports decreased by 17.8 percent in March 2020 in comparison with the same month last year, imports have increased by 3.1 percent when compared with March 2019.

"I lost my faith in justice. It is very clear that this was an attempted murder. Most likely, this case will end without the assailants receiving any sentence," says one journalist.

Working as a cardiac surgeon at Helios Gesundheit clinic in Karlsruhe, Germany, Metin Çakır has been suspended from duty over a tweet where he said, “As a physician, I would like to indicate that homosexuality and transsexuality is an illness.”

Facing a terror investigation due to the news regarding the house of Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, journalists Hazal Ocak, Vedat Arık, Olcay Büyüktaş and İpek Özbey from daily Cumhuriyet have been summoned to depose.

In a joint statement, World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF have noted that school meals are especially critical for girls as, in many poor countries, the promise of a meal can be enough to make struggling parents send their daughter to school.

Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) Association has prepared a report on the complaints of prisoners in Turkey amid Covid-19 pandemic. Covering the period from April 15 to 28, the report shows that access to rights in prisons has been restricted.

Human Rights Commission of Adana Bar, Human Rights Association (İHD), Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) and KESK Confederation have issued a report on the killing of 18-year-old Ali El Hemdan and noted that his right to life has been violated.

The total cases have climbed to 117,589 with 7,428 of them being health workers, Minister Koca has informed.

The committee was established in January as part of the efforts against the coronavirus pandemic.

The ones massacred in Taksim, İstanbul during May Day celebrations in 1977 have been commemorated. While fewer people have gathered on Kazancı Slope due to pandemic, their message is as strong as before: “We don’t forget our friends.”

"For two or three days, İstanbul has almost returned to its old rhythm. Traffic has intensified, contact has increased outside. I find this very dangerous," says Dr. Öztürk.

From Amnesty International 2019 Report on Turkey: “There were severe restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and people considered critical of the current government were detained or faced trumped-up criminal charges.”

Gülhan Benli from the Domestic Workers Solidarity Union and Münire İnal from the Collective Work Domestic Workers Union have spoken to bianet about the problems of domestic worker women who have to stay home due to coronavirus outbreak.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the authorities in Turkey to conduct an effective investigation into the allegations of people who say that they were held in custody and tortured by government agents for many months.

The attack in the northwestern Syrian city came while people were shopping for Ramadan fast breaking.

Having started to work at a tourism agency after being unemployed for over two years, Bülent Demirer has now lost his job due to coronavirus. According to Progressive Tourism Workers Union, there are over three million unemployed people in the sector.

A 19-year-old refugee was shot dead by the police during an ID check yesterday.