HDP Siirt MP Meral Danış Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary inquiry regarding the re-arrest of lawyers of the Progressive Lawyers Association. Danış Beştaş has asked, “Were the members of the judiciary given instructions?”

The amount of investments and purchases required to be made to acquire the citizenship of Turkey has been decreased.

Progressive Lawyers Association Chair Selçuk Kozağaçlı has been arrested again by the judgeship which ruled for his release three days ago. As his attorneys sat among the audience as a protest, Kozağaçlı was arrested in the absence of his attorneys.

The Ministry of Interior has announced that 376 social media accounts have been investigated and legal action has been taken against 261 people over the last week.

Of the 17 lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Association and People’s Law Bureau, who were released from prison on September 15, five of them have been arrested again.

Saying that “They ban our folk songs to us”, Grup Yorum’s imprisoned member Sultan Gökçek has written that the trial of 10 musicians will start on October 3.

A complaint has been submitted against prosecutors and judges who consider following HDP politicians on social media a crime.

Young people have participated in a survey on flirting violence conducted by the Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence. While 56 percent of participants state that they have experienced flirting violence, 71 percent say that they have witnessed it.

Arif Koşar and Vural Nasuhbeyoğlu from Evrensel newspaper have been each sentenced to pay a compensation of 7 thousand Turkish Lira on charge of “insulting the president.”

Tried for raping a cat, B.Ç. has been penalized on upper limit but he has been released given his period of detention. Rights defenders have said that the maximum penalty in the current system was imposed but the law must change.

The condition of working as professor for three years to become university president has been lifted for the second time.

“Being sensitive to sexual orientations and sexual identities” has been listed among the National Occupational Standards for Spiritual Counsellors issued by the Presidency of Religious Affairs.

HDP Mersin MP Fatma Kurtulan has submitted a motion foreseeing that the defendants who want to make their defence before the court rather than via Audio and Visual Information System be brought to the courtroom.

Six inmates, who publish a magazine in prison, have been given 10-day solitary confinement for “insulting the president and the commissioned officer” with the caricatures that they drew.

Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said, “No one forces parents to send their children to mixed-gender or single-gender schools, but we are offering alternatives.”

Yusuf Nazik, one of the suspects of Reyhanlı attack, which killed 155 people in Hatay, has been detained with an operation launched in Syria.

Doing his mandatory military service in Afyon, M.A. has allegedly committed suicide with his infantry rifle during guard-duty.

President Erdoğan has become the Chairperson of the Turkey Wealth Fund as per two Presidential Decrees issued today. Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak has also been appointed as the Deputy Chairperson of the fund.

Max Zirngast, a journalist from Austria, has been taken into custody by the anti-terror forces in Ankara. The re:volt magazine, where Zirngast has been working, has stated, “Turkey is trying to silence all oppositional voices.”

Detained at Ankara University Cebeci campus four years ago, five academics have been acquitted.