According to the statement released by Turkey's Ministry of National Defense, three soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. Falling from a high place in Syria’s Idlib, one soldier has passed away at hospital.

As part of an investigation over his social media messages, the police seized the 20-year archive of video activist and documentary filmmaker Oktay İnce in 2018. İnce got back his archive yesterday, on December 8, 2021.

The Urfa Bar Association and the Diyarbakır Regional Representative of the DİSK labor confederation visited the Şenyaşar Family on the 275th day of their justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse yesterday, on December 8.

Walking up to CHP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Özgür Özel, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu took the floor afterwards and said that he would file a lawsuit against Özel: “Don’t worry, what is coming is coming.”

HDP Urfa MP Nusrettin Maçin has been invited to leave the General Assembly hall and suspended from three sessions of the General Assembly of the Parliament for saying “Freedom to Kurdistan” in his speech during the budget talks.

Arrested at the age of 14 for “killing” four people during the Kobanî incidents in 2014, Mazlum İ. is given a life sentence though evidence suggests that he was at a wedding during the incident. Lawyer Karaman has released a statement about the issue.

Put on trial for disrupting the investigation, ignoring evidence and protecting senior military officers, the prosecutor investigating the “Operation Return to Life” in Bayrampaşa Prison has been acquitted by the Court of Cassation.

President Erdoğan: “We don’t recognize the decisions taken by the European Union about Kavala, Demirtaş, this or that… This is so simple. We assume that ‘they [decisions] do not exist’. In our eyes, these are null and void.”

During the budget talks at the General Assembly of the Parliament, main opposition CHP MP Aydın asked Minister Soylu “why he got on the plane of Sezgin Baran Korkmaz”, who is arrested in Austria. Soylu said Aydın was lying and a fight ensued.

Put on trial for reporting on the hacked emails of former minister Berat Albayrak, journalists Tunca Öğreten, Ömer Çelik, Metin Yoksu, E.S. and Derya Okatan face penalization for “giving or obtaining data unlawfully”.

Held in prison for 25 years despite being found not guilty by the prosecutor’s office as well, 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan and his son Ahmet Özkan, who stays in the same ward with him, have caught coronavirus.

Jailed politician Demirtaş’s lawyer Cin has announced that they have filed a criminal complaint against YouTuber Büşra Dede over her insulting remarks targeting Demirtaş.

HDP MP Dündar has recalled that the ban on meetings and demonstrations imposed once every 15 days in the province has been cited by the Mardin Governor’s Office as the reason for the ban on the “Tartuffe” theater play to be staged in Kurdish.

While the prosecutor has demanded the defendants’ penalization for “gross negligence” over the explosion at Coşkunlar Firework Factory in Sakarya, the relatives of the deceased have objected, saying that they should be penalized for “eventual intent”.

The investigation into the declaration of 103 retired admirals has been completed. The prosecutor’s office has said that “the seized digital materials of some suspects were examined and written correspondence under investigation is added to the indictment.”

In the Kobanî trial, the court held the hearing without waiting for the upper court to examine the defendants’ request for recusal. It has rejected the jailed politicians’ requests for being exempted from the hearings.

Launching a similar campaign itself, Siirt Municipality has requested damages from dismissed co-mayors Işık and Turhan and 23 municipal council members who were investigated for "writing off the default interest of outstanding water bills."

Briefly detained for dancing on the gate of the Surp Takavor Armenian Church in İstanbul’s Kadıköy in July 2021, three people now face up to 1 year in prison each for “publicly degrading the religious values of a segment of society.”

Ankara Bar Association Chair Erinç Sağkan has been elected the new Chair of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), defeating Metin Feyzioğlu by receiving the votes of 181 delegates out of 348. Feyzioğlu has received 156 votes.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has called on the authorities in Turkey to ensure that jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş is released from prison immediately in compliance with the ECtHR ruling.