Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against Diyarbakır Bar Association over its statement on President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş’s targeting remarks about the LGBTI+.

In its third report on the effects of the pandemic on its members, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has shared information about the rate of Covid-19 cases among workers and conditions in workplaces.

An employee at the Şok Market grocery chain has told bianet about their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.

In a recent report, the Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions (KESK) has noted that especially the personnel of Family Health Centers are at high risk and urged the authorities to halt work except for the fields that are absolutely necessary.

The Presidency of Religious Affairs has filed a criminal complaint against Ankara Bar Association, which previously filed a complaint against President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş over his targeting remarks about LGBTI+s and HIV positive people.

For the third day in a row, recoveries from the novel coronavirus topped new cases in the country.

The bar association filed a criminal complaint against Erbaş over his remarks targeting LGBTI+s.

Citizens aged 65 and over are not allowed to go out in Turkey since March 21. They have different opinions as to a possible three-hour permission. Some say they will walk kilometers long while others will not go out, fearing that they might catch the disease.

A bomb attack was carried out at an HDP rally in the southeastern city ahead of the 2015 parliamentary elections.

Discharged from hospital after their coronavirus treatment, art director İnci Batuk-Kürkçügil and historian-writer Masis Kürkçügil have spoken to bianet about their treatment process.

The Türk-İş union confederation has released its "Monthly Starvation and Poverty Line Survey."

Kavala will be behind bars for 30 months by the end of this month. Sending a message from prison, he said, “What brings me towards pessimism is that an attitude that disregards universal legal norms has gained traction and legitimacy in judicial circles.”

Rights organizations, politicians and bar associations have condemned President of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş’s remarks targeting the LGBTI+s and HIV positive people. Ankara Bar and Human Rights Association (İHD) have filed a criminal complaint.

The Health Ministry has confirmed 2,357 cases in a day while total cases have surpassed 110,000.

The country's death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 2,600 with a total of 104,912 cases.

Intensive care worker Mehtap tells bianet, “We work as a team. Physicians and nurses treat the patients, we care for them. We clean their bottoms and bodies, comb their hair and shave them. But, Health Minister doesn’t even see us as health workers.”

"Our boss, who has nine hotels, has a hotel in London, doesn't pay our salaries on the excuse of coronavirus," says a hotel worker in Taksim, a tourist district in İstanbul.

İstanbul Labor Union Branches’ Platform has announced that 2,902 workers suspected to have contracted coronavirus are in quarantine in İstanbul while 34 workers have so far died of the disease in the city.

The Turkish Medical Association previously stated that patients who died without a positive coronavirus test were not included in the Ministry of Health's official death toll.

We commemorate the writers and journalists who were taken from their homes and newspapers and forced to set out on April 24, 1915 and lost their lives.