In his letter from prison, arrested Die Welt journalist Deniz Yücel has written that the conditions in prison were better than in detention and added that he still had to laugh about the reason for his arrest.

A person who drove by the building of Cumhuriyet daily in Şişli district of İstanbul in a taxi shot at the wall across the building.

Journalist Erdem Mühirci taken into custody on August 21 and later arrested, has been released.

A court has decided to release Sibel Çapraz who was taken into custody on March 2, 2016 while suffering injuries and later arrested. Çapraz who experienced difficulties regarding her treatment in prison will be put under house arrest.

Die Welt Turkey Correspondent Deniz Yücel, who was in custody for 13 days has been arrested for “propagandizing for an [illegal] organization and inciting people to hatred and hostility”.

The reasoned decision in the trial of Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Şanar Yurdatapan has been announced. Şanar was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison (deferred) and fined 1.590 euro.

Özgür Gelecek Newspaper editor-in-chief Aslı Ceren Aslan was taken into custody in Urfa where she wanted to follow up the latest developments in Syria and Rojava and was later arrested for “border violation” and “being a member of an [illegal] organization”.

The next hearing of the Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch Mavioğlu, Eren, Başlangıç, Ağın, Çaralan, Can, Işık and Akgül is on July 4.

Being in Munich for 53rd Munich Security Conference, PM Yıldırım has said “This matter concerns prosecutor’s office” in response to a question about the detained Die Welt reporter Yücel.

Şık, taken into custody on December 29, 2016 and arrested on the next day, pleaded in the final hearing of ODA TV trial.

In 2016, the number of imprisoned journalists rose from 31 to 131, a record high for the last five years. 56 journalists were attacked, and 118 others were threatened. 179 media outlets were shut down by statutory decrees, and 10,000 media workers were left jobless.

The hearing of Hasan Cemal, who is on trial in the "Editor in Chief on Watch" case concerning Özgür Gündem, has been postponed to March 7. Cemal was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison due to his article in T24, the sentence has been postponed.

The journalists haven’t been allowed to enter Oda TV hearing in which 13 suspects including journalists Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, Soner Yalçın and Yalçın Küçük and former Security Director Hanefi Avcı are tried.

Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk has confirmed the report Hürriyet newspaper censored his interview in which he declared that he would vote “no” in constitutional amendment referendum.

In Özgür Gündem trials, Canpolat, Baysoy and Küçükkeleş have been penalized by İstanbul 22nd Heavy Penal Court while their attorneys were absent and the court didn’t hear their defenses.

Trials of 21 journalists at 13th and 22nd Heavy Penal Courts continued on February 14, 2017. Three journalists were penalized. In other trials, the prosecutor submitted similar opinion as to the accusations.

Following the bomb attacks, 948 people have been taken into custody, 248 others have been arrested in operations launched in 81 provinces in two weeks.

It’s been 100 days since nine members of the Cumhuriyet Daily staff were taken into custody. They are still waiting for the bill of indictment.

Cumhuriyet newspaper correspondent Coşkun is charged with “Defaming Turkishness, Republic of Turkey, the state’s bodies and institutions” due to one of her articles.

Journalists’ Union of Turkey has announced that press insurances of some journalists working at news sites such as hurriyet.com.tr, posta.com.tr, fanatik.com.tr have been cancelled.