Decline in the press freedom lead the internet to be an alternative, the Freedom House report said.

Main opposition MP Bakan has released a statement on the occasion of the World Environment Day, calling everyone to put up a struggle against the climate crisis.

Main opposition CHP Ankara MP Murat Emir has brought the cases of “insulting the President” into Parliamentary agenda: “We are going through a period when the rule of law has been trampled upon and the rule of power is prevailing.”

As Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has accepted their requests, families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and three other inmates Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysel Aktaş have gone to İmralı Prison for the Ramadan Feast visitation.

Speaking ahead of İstanbul repeat elections on June 23, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “The rival of Mr. İmamoğlu is not Mr. Yıldırım anymore, but the Supreme Election Council. The impaired balance of justice will be fixed by İstanbulites.”

Minister of Interior Soylu, who went to his hometown Trabzon for the Ramadan Feast, has been protested there by the citizens who chanted the election slogan of CHP’s İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu: “Everything will be fine.”

Organized in Russia’s capital city of Moscow for the last 25 years to commemorate the late poet, Nazım Hikmet events have started with the opening of Caricatures of Nazım Hikmet exhibition in the 56th year of poet's death.

The Municipality of Anamur has poured soil over the 13-kilometer coastline which is both the breeding and spawning area of caretta carettas and African softshell turtles and a natural protected area as per the international conventions and special laws.

Releasing a joint statement for the press on the occasion of June 5 World Environment Day, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Turkey and Greenpeace have raised concerns over the dimensions of air pollution in Turkey and the world.

An investigation has been launched against musician Alpay on the allegation that “he praised members of terrorist organizations and degraded the state” by commemorating Berkin Elvan, Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan in his concert.

As the half-matched marrow transplant from her mother Eylem Şen Yazıcı has failed, four-year-old leukemia patient Öykü Arin has been transplanted the marrow of her father Çağdaş Yazıcı, who is also a half-matched donor for the girl.

President Erdoğan has commented on Supreme Election Council’s ruling that the investigated district election council chairs and directors shall be on duty in İstanbul repeat elections: “I think there is a misunderstanding. We appealed to the YSK as a precaution.”

We wish a happy Ramadan Feast to all Muslim communities who celebrate it.

Releasing a report on the detained in Dergili Neighborhood in Halfeti, Urfa, the Urfa Bar Association has said, “Several of the detained were subjected to sexual torture.”

The AKP has appealed against the Supreme Election Council’s ruling that the district election council chairs and directors, who were investigated for forming balloting committees in İstanbul in an unlawful manner, shall also be on duty in repeat elections.

Taken into custody in Diyarbakır on charge of “membership of a terrorist organization” due to a meeting that she attended, journalist and rights defender Nurcan Baysal has been released after deposing to the judgeship of peace on duty.

According to the inflation figures announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), inflation rate has increased by 0.95 percent in May when compared to the previous month. The annual inflation has been measured as 18.71 percent.

The Supreme Election Council has ruled that the district election council chairs and electoral directors, who were investigated for forming balloting committees in İstanbul in an unlawful manner, shall also be on duty in repeat local elections on June 23.

According to unofficial results, while the district mayoral candidates of the AKP have won the repeat elections in Keskin, Kırıkkale and Yusufeli, Artvin, the candidate of the CHP has won in Honaz, Denizli and that of the DSP in Kesmetepe town in Adıyaman.

On the 85th traditional reunion day at Galatasaray High School in İstanbul, the Galatasaray Common Sense Platform has sent their greetings to arrested Academics for Peace Füsun Üstel and Tuna Altınel and said, “Our solidarity will always continue.”