According to a new omnibus law that came into force today, Turkey will charge the use of plastic bags as of January 1, 2018. Among the articles introduced by the law are also the ones making life difficult for wild animals.

CHP Sinop MP Karadeniz and Anti-Nuclear Platform member Karataş commented on the claims that Japan will withdraw from the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Project.

Rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala has sent a message from Silivri Prison and said, “I am waiting for the issuance of my indictment so that I can show that the allegations against me are groundless and baseless.”

Cansu Şekerci from the CİSST has spoken about children staying in prison with their mothers: “It is forbidden to have toys in wards. Children are away from not only nature and social life but games as well.” Child inmates can also be held together with adults.

In the 29th year of the adoption of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 thousand children die of preventable diseases a day, 155 million children are malnourished and one out of every five children cannot go to school across the world.

CHP İstanbul MP Ali Şeker has announced the answers given by the Ministry of Health to his questions regarding child motherhood. Şeker has stated, “More than 40 children have been forced to become mothers a day across Turkey.”

38 of the 74 people, who were taken into custody as part of an operation conducted in the provinces of Diyarbakır, Hakkari and Elazığ, have been arrested.

Academics Turgut Tarhanlı and Betül Tanbay and Çiğdem Mater, Meltem Aslan, Ali Hakan Altınay, Yiğit Ekmekçi, Bora Sarı, Ayşegül Güzel, Filiz Telek and Yiğit Aksakoğlu have been taken into custody as part of the operation.

Two physicians, who were taken into custody for staging a protest in front of the parliament in Ankara against the motion which foresees restrictions on employment of discharged medical doctors in private health institutions, have been released.

Germany-based International League for Human Rights has awarded this year’s Carl von Ossietzky Medal to the discharged Co-Mayor of Cizre Leyla İmret and human rights defender Ottmar Miles Paul for their contributions to human rights and peace.

85-year-old ill prisoner Sise Bingöl, who has been held in the Tarsus Type T Women’s Closed Prison in Adana, has been taken to hospital. Her attorney Gülşen Özbek has stated, "Sise Bingöl should be released immediately".

In the statement for the press made in front of the Silivri Prison, where rights advocate and businessperson Osman Kavala has been behind bars for more than a year, it has been indicated, “Depriving him of his freedom in this way is no different than torture!”

According to a joint research led by CAN Europe, coal based power plants causing excess air pollution lead to tens of thousands of premature deaths of respiratory and vascular diseases, mercury contamination in plants and animals, destruction of huge forest areas in the Muğla Province.

The detailed ruling of US Pastor Brunson, who has been sentenced to 3 years, 1 month and 15 days in prison, has been announced. In the ruling, it has been stated, “Adequate evidence as to the charges of political and military espionage has not been found.”

Journalist Adil Yiğit, who has been required to leave Germany until January 20, 2019, has spoken to bianet: “I will not come to Turkey, I will not stay in Germany. I will go to another country so that the shame of Germany will remain in Germany."

The new amendment to the Regulation on Associations has required that all associations operating in Turkey inform the Ministry of Interior about the personal identifying information of their members, including their occupations and educational backgrounds.

Turkey's labor leaders call for joint struggle against the government's "New Economic Program" which they says aims at "transferring the burden of the ongoing crisis on the shoulders of 81 Mn people".

The Ministry of Interior has sent a circular letter to the governorships around Turkey with the aim of preventing people from shooting in the air during wedding, engagement and similar other ceremonies.

HDP MP Kemalbay and CHP MP Şeker have submitted parliamentary inquiries into the death of a worker at the construction site of 3rd Airport in İstanbul. They have asked how many workers have lost their lives since the beginning of the construction.

A recent update on the website of Foreign Ministry of Germany warns citizens travelling to Turkey that after a "Like" for somebody else's posting on the social media, their holidays may end up in a detention center instead of stretching on an easy chair.