Charged with "insulting the President" over their remarks during a TV program, actors Müjdat Gezen and Metin Akpınar have been acquitted.

HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay has addressed the recent debates on HDP’s “closure” and summaries of proceedings against its nine MPs: “We are witnessing a legal system operating with purely political and racist motives.”

In the prosecutor’s opinion, it was indicated that Ayten Öztürk, arrested pending trial for three years, “watched a lynching in the neighborhood from a corner”. She now faces aggravated life imprisonment.

Having prepared a report on Tahir Elçi murder, Forensic Architecture says, “The indictment charges the officers we identified, but also charges a PKK militant, despite our findings showing clearly that he could not be responsible for Elçi’s death.”

Former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has written for Medyascope from prison: “The debates on closing the HDP and lifting the legislative immunities will apparently make no contribution to peace. I hope that this mistake will not be made.”

HDP's Oluç links the recent move to lift legislative immunities of his party's lawmakers to the talk of a new constitution.

The indictment has indicated that there was no tip-off suggesting an imminent incident during the funeral or any preparation in that regard. There is also no evidence proving that the incident was preplanned, according to the indictment.

Human Rights Watch (HRW), International Commission of Jurists and Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project have submitted a recommendation to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe regarding the Osman Kavala case.

Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has answered a Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Çakırözer regarding the fines imposed by the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) on broadcasters.

Facing a summary of proceedings over the Kobane incidents of October 6-8, 2014, HDP MP Garo Paylan also faces charges for addressing arrested former Co-Chair of the HDP Demirtaş as “Dear Selahattin Demirtaş”.

Speaking about the coronavirus restrictions ahead of the “gradual normalization” as of March 1, President Erdoğan has said that the related decisions will be taken at the Presidential cabinet meeting.

Facing an investigation over a picture featuring Kaaba in an exhibition at the South Campus as part of Boğaziçi University protests, seven students have been indicted by the prosecutor’s office.

Left Party executives visited main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in Ankara. İlknur Başer from the Left Party addressed the reporters after the meeting: “The AKP has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of society.”

Files concerning three CHP deputies and 22 HDP deputies, including the nine lawmakers who face an aggravated life sentence, have been submitted by the Presidency to the parliament.

"Turkey's politics can't progress without the HDP. The HDP determines the direction of politics in Turkey. The elections in 2015, 2018 and 2019 have shown this," says MP Danış-Beştaş.

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of opposition-led İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has responded to the remarks of President and AKP Chair Erdoğan, who said, “We will build Canal İstanbul just to spite them.”

The chief public prosecutor’s office has given a decision of non-prosecution for journalist Oktay Candemir, who was investigated over a tweet critical of TV series about the Ottoman times.

Arrested lawyer Aytaç Ünsal previously appealed to the Constitutional Court on the grounds that his treatment following his 215-day death fast was interrupted. The top court has rejected his request for deferring the execution.

After the privatization of electricity distribution companies, the state-run electricity corporation has begun making losses because of not receiving required payments, MP Sertel has said.

Behind bars since November 2016, former HDP Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ had her hearing in the court case where she is arrested pending trial. The court board has ruled that she shall remain behind bars.