İstanbul Atatürk Airport will be transferred to the 3rd İstanbul Airport, whose official launch date has been announced as October 29. After the transfer, which is expected to last 45 hours, İstanbul Atatürk Airport will be closed to commercial passenger transportation.

President Erdoğan has stated that they should not let that a shadow is cast on the Alliance for the Public and defended his previous statements regarding the the bill of amnesty and national oath, over which the AKP and MHP have had disagreements.

In a speech that he held at the weekly group meeting of his party, MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli has stated that the MHP will participate in the local elections in March 2019 with its own candidates instead of forming an alliance.

After it has been reported that three young people from Urfa, who were doing their mandatory military service, have committed suicide in three days, HDP Ağrı MP Abdullah Koç has submitted a parliamentary inquiry regarding the suspicious deaths of soldiers.

President Erdoğan has spoken at the academic year opening of Dokuz Eylül University and said, “How come are the universities in Turkey not among the best 500 universities of the world? It means that we have lost something, there is a problem somewhere.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders have released a joint statement and made a call to Turkey to seek the inquiry of the UN regarding missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

We have compiled the judicial process of rights advocate and businessperson Osman Kavala on the occasion that it has been a year since his period of detention started.

A second examination has been conducted at the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in İstanbul as part of the investigation launched after journalist Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing. The residence of the Consul General has also been examined.

It has been alleged that three young people from the province of Urfa, who were doing their mandatory military service, have committed suicide since October 14.

In the indictment issued for Arda Turan, the football player has been facing charges of “sexual harassment”, “willful injury”, “shooting with a firearm in a way to cause fear, anxiety and panic” and “purchase or possession of an unregistered firearm or its bullets.”

While an examination could be done in the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in İstanbul as part of the Khashoggi investigation, no examination could be conducted in the Consul’s residence. The Consul General has returned to his country.

It has been stated that two people from Urfa, who were doing their mandatory military service, have committed suicide in two days. While one of the soldiers has lost his life in his hometown in leave of absence, the other one committed suicide while on duty.

The driver of the tractor, who disobeyed the stop warning of the police in front of the parliament in Ankara and was allegedly heading to Israel Embassy, has been captured on the Çankaya Street, along which he was driving by running over other vehicles.

The Ministry of Interior has announced that 229 social media accounts have been investigated and legal action has been taken against 176 people in one week.

An examination, including a search for DNA and blood traces, has been conducted at the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in the district of Levent in İstanbul, where the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing.

In the wake of President Erdoğan’s speech signaling an operation to be launched against village and neighborhood heads, the Ministry of Interior has discharged 259 mukhtars. HDP MP Danış-Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary inquiry regarding the issue.

Ill prisoner Vefa Kartal, who was referred to hospital after ending his hunger strike, has been taken back to prison. Prof. Dr. Korur-Fincancı has emphasized that though his illnesses could be treated in a short time, he might still be vulnerable to infection.

Journalists Abdurrahman Gök, Lezgin Akdeniz, Cihan Ölmez, Esra Solin Dal and Semiha Alankuş, who were taken into custody in Diyarbakır on October 9 and referred to courthouse, have been released.

While 12 of the 25 people, who were previously referred to court in Diyarbakır, have been released, 13 people, including journalist Kibriye Evren, have been arrested.

Lawyers of the Media and Law Studies Association and the Media Legal Defence Initiative have jointly applied to the European Court of Human Rights for journalist İdris Sayılğan, who has been behind bars for two years.