HDP MP Ersoy has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Justice Gül. “Is data on sexual abuse of children hidden from the public because the Judicial Reform plans to introduce reduced sentences for child abusers”, Ersoy has asked.

Speaking at a CoE Congress in Strasbourg, İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor İmamoğlu has said, “They talk about trustees over and over again, but I am very clear about this issue. I am against the practice of appointing trustees. Period. I am that clear.”

AKP İstanbul MP Mustafa Yeneroğlu has announced that he has resigned from the AKP.

President Erdoğan has called on EU countries: “When bombs start to explode on your streets, the weapons of terrorists start to spill out death, vandals start to devastate your surroundings, you will, of course, come to realize your mistake.”

The Parliamentary inquiry submitted by 26 CHP MPs into forest fires has been rejected by AKP and MHP MPs. In their inquiry, MPs reminded the Speaker’s Office that 50 thousand football fields’ worth of forestland has been razed in the last 5 years.

Sharing a message for the Republic Day, HDP has referred to appointment of trustees to its municipalities, underlining that “the usurpation of 19 municipalities by disregarding the will of 4 million people demonstrates the need for democratizing the republic."

Preparing a report on Ministry of Labor, which is now called the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, CHP Vice Chair Veli Ağbaba has underlined that the Ministry has not reached the targets that it previously set for itself.

A trustee has been appointed to the Municipality of Cizre in Şırnak. Since March 31 local elections, trustees have been appointed to 13 HDP municipalities, including the Metropolitan Municipalities of Van, Diyarbakır and Mardin.

HDP MP Paylan has said, "The Speaker's Office wants to decide which words we will use," on the rejection of the inquiry he submitted regarding the Pogrom of September 6-7 against minorities in İstanbul.

A professional private soldier has lost his life in the hospital where he was being treated.

Three dismissed co-mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have been sent from Diyarbakır to Kayseri without a reason being given.

The court has ruled for the release of Emre İper, the last arrested defendant of the Cumhuriyet case, after the Judicial Reform Package has entered into effect after being published on the Official Gazette.

HDP Spokesperson Kubilay has said, “In a country where economic crisis, unemployment, poverty and misery prevail and price increases rain down on people, what does the government say to people, other than ‘I will crush, sweep, smash, destroy’.”

The practice of "simple procedure" will completely "remove the act of judgment" in cases where most dissidents are being tried, according to lawyer Güçlü Sevimli.

Zülal Erdoğan, the lawyer of dismissed Metropolitan Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Mızraklı, has spoken to bianet about his arrest: “Each and every stage from his detention to his arrest was against the law. Because there is no concrete evidence.”

Turkish Medical Association (TTB) and İstanbul Medical Chamber (İTO) have denounced the arrest of dismissed Metropolitan Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Dr. Selçuk Mızraklı.

The top court has announced its verdict after combining four applications, including an application by bianet, on different orders of broadcast and publication bans.

Assoc. Prof. Didem Danış from Galatasaray University has asked, “How will the people, the majority of whom came from Aleppo and Damascus, be settled in Idlib or the regions controlled by Turkey? Moreover, how will their voluntary return be ensured?”

Ministry of National Defense has released a statement regarding the recent Turkey-Russia agreement on northern Syria. “At this stage, there is no further need to conduct a new operation outside the present operation area”, the statement has indicated.

Party group leaders at the European Parliament have requested economic sanctions against Turkey. “We need to consider economic measures”, says European People’s Party (EPP) Group Chair Manfred Weber.