On the centenary of Children’s Day, children are celebrating the day for the first time at home. We asked them about their recommendations to other children and what they will do when the quarantine ends. They answered with poems, drawings, songs..

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 2,376 and the total number of cases to 98,674. 117 people have died of the virus and 3,083 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Danzikyan from weekly Agos newspaper, Vergili from monthly Sabro newspaper, Molinas from weekly Şalom newspaper and Canbek from monthly Jıneps newspaper have spoken to bianet about publishing a newspaper in the days of corona.

Central Bank has reduced the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) from 9.75 to 8.75 percent. Referring to the spread of the coronavirus, the bank has indicated that it continues to take expansionary measures in this context.

Despite the pandemic, thousands of workers continue to work at the shipyards in Tuzla, İstanbul.

According to a report by Turkish Medical Association (TTB), 3,474 health workers, 38 percent of whom are physicians, have tested positive for COVID-19. In İstanbul, 2,005 health workers, including 960 physicians, have been diagnosed with the virus.

Highway construction worker: “We are told that if we want to leave, we are free to do so. We can, of course, leave. We would rather starve to death than endure so many insults. But we have families, we are not responsible only for ourselves.”

Arrested for stabbing his wife and released in November 2019, Müslüm Aslan has battered and killed his 9-year-old daughter Ceylan.

Events that may attract large groups will not be allowed during the Ramadan.

After coronavirus was found in one prisoner, other who contacted were also tested.

Assoc. Prof. Özge Karadağ-Çaman has noted that the ones who have set a certain goal for themselves and work to reach that goal can get over Covid-19 quarantine more easily. “There is no room for hopelessness,” she has warned.

HDP MP Züleyha Gülüm has shared the condition of Turkey’s prisons amid Covid-19 pandemic in a press statement. Gülüm has underlined that the Parliament should immediately convene and take action to find a solution for this problem.

Right to Clean Air Platform Coordinator Buket Atlı has spoken to bianet about the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization’s data that air pollution has abated in 29 metropolitan cities of Turkey and the relation between coronavirus and air pollution.

The total number of cases has climbed to 95,591, according to the Health Ministry.

The finance minister, a presidential aide and a businessperson have filed lawsuits against Cumhuriyet reporter Hazal Ocak in the past year.

The Turkish Medical Association had said the Ministry of Health did not report Covid-19 deaths according to the codes suggested by WHO.

Yusuf and Emre have spoken to bianet: “They gave us a black mask. One of those that you can wash… As gloves, we wear our construction gloves. They put liquid soap at the washbasin, nothing else… If we catch the disease, we will die away from our families.”

Censorship of websites and social media in the country "has reached unprecedented levels," says the RSF.

With their advertising revenues and sales dropped due to coronavirus, local newspapers can hardly keep their heads above the water. Owners of local newspapers say that they oscillate between their employees and closing down the newspapers.

Issuing a joint press note to mark the European Immunization Week, the WHO and UNICEF have underlined that maintaining routine immunization services during the Covid-19 pandemic is of vital importance.