Many assembly points in the city are small spaces like open lots next to apartment buildings or schoolyards, and are only meant for temporary congregation, warns the head of the Chamber of Civil Engineers.

Kozağaçlı was released on Wednesday after years in prison.

The Journalists' Union of Turkey (TGS) previously denounced the investigation as a “setup,” claiming that the case file included photos taken from angles that deliberately obscured the journalists’ cameras and press cards, to create the impression that they were protesters rather than members of the press.

Akgül, a former board member of TGS and a former editor of bianet, has been detained for over six weeks.

One day after the plant was sealed, the ministry approved a new environmental impact assessment report for the facility.

Diren Yurtsever faces a prison sentence of one to three years.

Chair and executives of the bar association are facing up to 12 years in prison due to a statement they issued about the killing of two Kurdish journalists in an airstrike in Syria.

A biogas company executive was sentenced to prison, but the sentence was later converted into a monetary fine.

As a partner in the "Our Media" project, IPS Communication Foundation/bianet has collaborated with organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia to publish a report analyzing the future of media in the Western Balkans and Turkey.

"They don't even bother pressing charges before detaining or censoring journalists anymore," says Ruşen Takva, one of the journalists whose social media accounts have been censored recently.

Speaking at the commemoration, writer Takuhi Tovmasyan said: “In broad daylight, right in the heart of Istanbul, right before our eyes, they assassinated an Armenian journalist. What was his ‘crime’? It was obvious: a love of human beings, a passion for democracy and human rights, a firm belief in freedom of expression, and on top of all this, advocating for peace between two peoples”.

MLSA Co-Director Barış Altıntaş: “The license demanded from Cumhuriyet newspaper for its YouTube channel shows how hungry RTÜK is to expand its scope of inspection”.