Turgut Kazan, the president of the İstanbul Bar Association, defined the new "Multiple Bars" law as a "Metin Feyzioğlu law" saying, "This is an attempt to eradicate the right of defense and fair trial."
Stating that the government aims to launch a new ideological structure through “Multiple Bars” law, HDP MP Abdullah Koç said, “It is a regulation they adopted to consolidate fascism."
The police have raided the town hall of Diyadin district of the mostly Kurdish populated province of Ağrı and the house of HDP's Diyadin Municipality Co-Mayor Betül Yaşar. The doors of the town hall were broken open and the building has been put under blockade.
The head of Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Ali Erbaş announced that 2 imams and 4 muezzins will be appointed to Hagia Sophia.
Main opposition CHP's İstanbul MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu has shared the findings of his monthly report on violations of human rights committed in Turkey for June 2020.
8 out of the 9 people detained within the scope of the Mardin-based operation were released as one of them was arrested.
AKP Spokesperson Ömer Çelik said, “There is no cultural or legal ground for the states that do not like this decision” for those who criticise over Hagia Sophia decision.
On the 16th day of the search-and-rescue mission rescue teams have recovered two more bodies increasing the official number killed to 21 after the boat carrying migrants across Lake Van is reported to have sunk on June 27.
Pope Francis said on Sunday that he is “deeply pained” over the decision by Turkey to change the status of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque.
After visiting imprisoned lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal who have been have been on a death fast for more than 5 months with a demand of a fair trial, their colleagues stated that the health condition of the both lawyers is on the critical stage, called out to the Supreme Court of Turkey: "Give your decision immediately".
Indicating that opening Hagia Sophia on the anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne means something rather than an arbitrary choice of date, historian and author Namik Kemal Dinc said, "Turkey declared that it evolves into an Islamic state."
It has been revealed that 4 prosecutors who conducted the investigation on the murder of the father and his sons, Esvet Şenyaşar, Celal Şenyaşar and Adil Şenyaşar, who were killed by the bodyguards and relatives AKP MP İbrahim Yıldız in the Suruç district Urfa investigated where the killed family members were buried in order to prove the “connection with an [illegal] organization” instead of shedding light on the Şenyaşar family's murder.
SOHR stated that the air defense systems of the Syrian government responded to the airstrike intended to be carried out on the Russian base.
The World Council of Churches has called on Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to turn the celebrated Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque.