All of the 13 defendants of Oda TV case were acquitted in the trial that began six years ago at İstanbul 18th Heavy Penal Court today.

Following the court ruling that all the suspects in the Oda TV trial be acquitted for lack of evidence , Ahmet Şık has called on to all who had been following the trial: “This rulership of mafia, this organized state of evil will get what it deserves. It will experience the inevitable”.

20th Metin Göktepe Journalism Awards have been delivered to its laureates on Göktepe’s birthday.

Sûjin correspondents Zeynep Turgut and Nişmiye Güler have been detained in a café in Tatvan where they were present for news coverage.

Journalist Can Dündar, also a suspect according to indictment in Cumhuriyet case has responded to the claims of the prosecutors in the trial that “the editorial policy changed” as “None of your business”.

Indictment of Cumhuriyet investigation has been covered in Sabah newspaper before handed to defense attorneys. The offenses “Aiding an [illegal] organization though not being a member” and “being a member of an [illegal] organization” took place in the indictment.

Judges who ordered release of 21 journalists including Murat Aksoy and Atilla Taş have been suspended from duty.

21 of the 29 journalists and writers standing trial as a part of the investigation launched following the July 15 coup attempt had been released. Yet another detention order has been issued for the journalists.

Evin Buldan, an editor of Rojeva Media Newspaper has lost her life of a heart attack in Diyarbakır.

dihaber correspondent Selman Keleş taken into custody in Van and Arif Aslan, an employee in İpekyolu Municipality in Van, have been arrested on claims of “suspected membership to an [illegal] organization”.

Journalist Hasan Cemal has been acquitted in the lawsuit in which 13 years in prison was demanded on charge of PKK propaganda.

Tried for serving as editors-in-chief on watch at Özgür Gündem, Kural has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined 6,000 TL, Bakır sentenced to 15 months in prison. The prison sentences have been deferred.

The March issue of Elle Magazine thematizing feminism waves in fashion has been found “obscene and harmful for minors’ psychology”.

SheMaleTurk.com, an LGBTI dating website with 400,000 members has been blocked for the fifth time. Officials of the website stated: “They block it and say each time ‘Sorry, there has been a mistake’”.

The court in the hearing of Özgür Gündem Editors in Chief on Watch Önderoğlu, Korur-Fincancı and Nesin ruled that Nesin be taken forcibly to give testimony and be released after his statement has been taken.

The threat in the arrest warrant is more than enough to demonstrate that Ahmet Şık is in prison for telling the truth: “Since his statements that accuse the state and state officials continue, proofs that show the presence of a strong criminal suspicion were found…”

Özgür Gündem Editors in Chief on Watch Erol Önderoğlu, Ahmet Nesin and Şebnem Korur-Fincancı standing trial on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” will have their third hearing tomorrow.

Progressive Journalists Association Achievement Awards 2016 have been granted to the awardees in a ceremony organized at Çankaya Municipality Contemporary Arts Center in Ankara.

Dicle Media News Agency Ankara correspondent Hayri Demir has been detained in a police raid launched into his home.

Kızılkaya who is one of the two arrested figures of Özgür Gündem trial held by İstanbul 23rd Heavy Penal Court has been brought to court, Kemal Sancılı attended via Audio and Visual System. The court has rejected all of the demands, the hearing will continue on July 22.