While a trustee has been appointed in place of HDP’s detained Ağrı Diyadin Co-Mayor Yaşar, 33 people, including HDP Antep Co-Chair, have been taken into custody as part of another “investigation against the PKK/KCK terrorist organization.”

With the bill foreseeing the establishment of more than one bar association in a city passed the Parliament, Kayseri and Muğla Bar Association Chairs Cavit Dursun and Cumhur Uzun have spoken to bianet about why they object to the bill.

What needed to be questioned was not whether the decision was good or bad, but Erdoğan's remarks a year ago against the conversion of the monument, İmamoğlu has said.

Speaking to bianet, lawyer Sevimli has said, “In the current situation, the risk of death is gradually getting higher” while main opposition CHP’s Bekaroğlu has noted that a public pressure is a must for the state to respond to death fasts.

The Council of State has given a ruling of stay of execution for the 1 to 100,000 Scale Environmental Plan of the Green Road project in eastern Black Sea on the ground of its adverse impacts on highlands.

As the bill allowing the establishment of more than one bar in a city passed the parliament, the chairs of İstanbul, Zonguldak and Kocaeli Bar Associations have spoken to bianet about the bill and what will happen from now on.

The Romanis were removed from Sulukule neighborhood during an "urban transformation" project that was initiated in 2006.

Shortly after the Council of State annulled the decree converting Hagia Sophia from a mosque into a museum, a Presidential Decree handing it over to the Presidency of Religious Affairs and opening it to worship has been published on the Official Gazette.

In the wake of two firework blasts in Sakarya province within a week, several municipalities across Turkey, including the municipalities of Edirne, İzmir and Kars, have banned the use of fireworks in their events.

CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “On the very day when this legislation is published in the Official Gazette, we will appeal to the Constitutional Court. The system of multiple bars needs to be abandoned to ensure the security of unitary structure.”

Foreseeing the establishment of more than one bar association in a city, the Bill on Amendments to the Attorneys' Act and Some Laws has been passed at the General Assembly of the Parliament. MPs have started debating the second part.

The chairs of bar associations are keeping watch against the bill of “multiple bar associations” in Kuğulu Park in Ankara. Police have surrounded the bar chairs, not allowing journalists to enter the area.

Meeting in İstanbul Courthouse, lawyers have applauded in protest of the bill foreseeing the establishment of more than one bar association in a city. İzmir Bar has announced that they will go to Ankara to support bar chairs with their watch in the city.

A group of lawyers have opened a banner of “Fair trial is a right, accept their demands” for lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on a death fast in prison for their right to a fair trial.

As the government considers converting the monument into a mosque, MP Hüda Kaya has said it was built as and should be reconverted into a church.

During the session, tensions rose between AKP deputies and independent MP Ahmet Şık.

Sending a message from Edirne Prison, former HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has stressed that “Turkey’s future cannot be built by solely opposing to the AKP,” adding that the next election will be “the greatest election in Turkey’s political history”

The ruling AKP-MHP’s bill on multiple bars has been protested in front of İstanbul Bar Association. Addressing the crowd, İstanbul Bar Vice Chair has noted that even if the bill passes the Parliament, it will be repealed by the Constitutional Court.

The bill foreseeing changes in the structure of bar associations has been put on the agenda of the Parliament's General Assembly today. Main opposition CHP, HDP and İYİ Party have reported minutes of dissent: “A natural ground for political divisions.”

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Minister of Treasury and Finance Albayrak, HDP MP Garo Paylan has noted that the exchange rate of US dollar has been fixed at 6.86 Turkish Lira in the last weeks.