Supreme Election Council has announced the rules and restrictions of propaganda for local elections. Accordingly, candidates will be permitted to propagandize in different languages, but cannot send messages to voters’ phones or computers.

PACE Monitoring Committee Turkey co-reporters have condemned the prison sentence given to PACE Honorary Member Kürkçü: “We urge the Turkish authorities to abide by their Council of Europe obligations and to reconsider this judgment.”

The İstanbul 4th Administrative Court has given its final judgment on an appeal by a parent, who requested her child to be exempted from compulsory religion class. The court has ruled that the class is against the principle of equality.

HDP Honorary Chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü has been sentenced to 2 years in prison due to the speech that he made during Newroz celebrations in Iğdır in 2016. The verdict will be considered by the Court of Appeal.

Having been threatened by President Erdoğan, who addressed him by saying, “You cannot even find the chance to escape”, CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has responded, “Who are you to decide whether I will live or not? Who are you?”

Former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak, who has been arrested for more than two years, has gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has also been on a hunger strike in prison for 40 days.

Representatives from journalism organizations have commented on the threatening statements of President Erdoğan, who addressed TV anchor Fatih Portakal by saying, “If you don’t know your place, this nation will hit you in the back of your head.”

Responding to the statements of President Erdoğan, who accused CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu of inciting the public to take to the streets and said, “You cannot find a chance to escape”, CHP Group Deputy Chairperson has stated, “Dictators are afraid of the street.”

Speaking at the Doha Conference in Qatar, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has stated that they can consider working with Syria President Bashar al Assad in the event that he wins a democratic election.

Minister of Transportation Turhan has said, “Those who say 'The collision happened because of the lack of signalization' are not evaluating the incident correctly”. He added that signalization is “a supplementary security measure, not indispensable.”

Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Aydın has stated that documents and information in the investigation of Elçi murder were analyzed at University of London’s Forensic Architecture Department and possible perpetrators of his murder have been identified.

Ministry of Interior has announced that 310 social media accounts have been investigated in a week. Minister Soylu said, “110 thousand accounts have been investigated and 7 thousand social media users have been sent to judicial authorities in 2018."