Directorate General of Press and Information has denied Can Dündar’s request of renewal of his permanent press card due to “national security policy”.

Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, East and Central Europe has been granted to bianet rapporteur and RSF Turkey representative Erol Önderoğlu.

PEN Germany has granted Hermann Kesten Prize to the journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, and the Hermann Kesten Support Award to the “Translate for Justice”! platform.

Columnist of the closed Özgür Gündem daily, Şaban Iba has been taken into custody in his apartment in Edremit District of Balıkesir in a house raid carried out by gendarmerie.

This year, PEN International on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, has drawn attention to five writers in prison around the World including Aslı Erdoğan from Turkey to whom Margaret Atwood has written a letter of solidarity.

Of the Özgür Gündem Editor on Watch campaign participants, 50 have been subjected to investigations, against 36 others charges have been pressed, verdict of non-prosecution has been announced for 11 participants and one case has been dropped.

Taken into custody in Antep on Friday evening, French journalist Oliver Bertrand has been deported.

Attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin taken into custody in a house raid is expected to be sent to Bursa.

Cumhuriyet Newspaper Executive Board President Akın Atalay has been detained at Atatürk Airport where Atalay returned from abroad.

First hearing of the trial in which Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin have been tried within the scope of the Özgür Gündem’s editor-in-chief on watch campaign was held yesterday.

I don't accept restrictions on people's right to information and limitations for citizens and journalists on making reports.

In her testimony before İstanbul 22nd Criminal Court, journalist Nadire Mater who had participated in the “Editor-in-Chief on Watch” campaign launched in support of the Özgür Gündem daily said “Solidarity with Özgür Gündem is also an objection to the current situation”. The next hearing will be on December 9, at 2.15 p.m.

A probe has been launched into journalist Barış Pehlivan over his report claiming that the prosecutor running the operation carried out into Cumhuriyet daily is being tried in FETÖ investigation.

Erdoğan has taken place in RSF’s list of “Predator of Press Freedom”. Turkey was lastly on the list in 2002 with former Chief of General Staff Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu.

Sealing the door of DİHA Ankara Office, the teams have locked the Parrot "Tolaz" in. DİHA workers are trying to get the parrot out.

Readers of Cumhuriyet daily, its journalists and many others have advocated the "right to information" in a demonstration.

Aslı Erdoğan and Necmiye Alpay both arrested in the investigation into Özgür Gündem daily, have sent Cumhuriyet daily a letter of support.

IPI Executive Board Member and Cumhuriyet daily's Editorial Consultant, journalist and columnist Kadri Gürsel has also been taken into custody in the operation on Cumhuriyet daily.

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member and columnist Güray Öz. Sabuncu and Öz have been taken into custody.

10 newspapers, two news agencies, three magazines have been closed including Evrensel Kültür, Tîroj, Özgürlük Dünyası, DİHA ve Azadiya Welat by the Statutory Decree No. 675