Emphasizing that one of the two arrest warrants issued for Selahattin Demirtaş has a maximum arrest period of 18 months, his attorney Karaman has submitted a request for release for Demirtaş on the ground that he has been in prison for the last 17 months.

The motion foreseeing the shortening of parliamentary speech time has been voted and approved with the intervention of Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman. Upon the approval of the motion, the MPs of the CHP and HDP have left the general assembly.

Chemistry professor Tunçay and Prof. Ondan each have been sentenced to 15 months in prison. The court has deferred announcement of the verdict.

Vice PM and Government Spokesperson Bozdağ has said, “The need for extending the State of Emergency is obvious”. The State of Emergency was extended for the sixth time on January 19.

Arrested on charge of “being a member of an illegal organization” in 1994, lifetime imprisonment imposed second time on Çomak following ECtHR’s decision dated 2007 has been upheld once again by the Supreme Court.

Nine of 16 detained Boğaziçi University students have been arrested on charge of allegedly “attempting to show the state as an illegitimate power engaging in illegitimate activities.”

While one of three courts have approved the demand that files be requested from 13th Heavy Penal Court, the other two rejected. Demands for immediate acquittal have been rejected.

Claiming that Turkey has “recently become more provocative and is exacerbating the situation on every front”, PM of Greece Tsipras has called on Turkey to “tone down aggression”.

One of seven people who were detained on charge of “promoting illegal organization” was detained in Erzincan today.

A teacher in Çanakkale, who put a hairpin on a male student’s hair in front of his friends because “his hair was long”, has defended himself by saying, “We were joking around.” School management has filed a criminal complaint against the father who showed harsh response.

Ministry of Interior has investigated 454 social media accounts and taken legal action against 242 people on charges of “insulting state officials” and “targeting the indivisible integrity of the state” in one week.

The court has ordered that legal action be taken for red notice to be issued for Can Dündar in the “MİT Trucks” trial that recommenced after Supreme Court had reversed the decision.

Paramedic from National Medical Rescue Team has lost his life in explosion of an improvised explosive device in Afrin.

Kites have been flown for Osman Kavala and all other inmates who are kept in Silivri Prison and other prisons in Turkey and have been unjustly deprived of their freedoms for political reasons.

Kızıldere commemoration to be held at Galatasaray Square in the district of Beyoğlu in İstanbul has been prevented by the police. Yunus Bircan, a member of the 78s Initiative, has been taken into custody.

Injured in explosion of an improvised explosive device during Afrin operation last week, Infantry Sergeant Major Yiğit lost his life in the military hospital in Ankara this morning.

Writer Eliaçık has been tried on charge of “propagandizing for the PKK” due to one of his articles released on Internet.

In a statement read out before the hearing of academics from Boğaziçi University, it has been stated, “Freedom of expression is a constitutional right, demanding peace is not and cannot be a crime. Right to education is guaranteed by the Constitution, it cannot be violated!”

The Ministry of Interior has announced that 783 social media accounts have been investigated on charges including “insulting state officials” and a legal action has been launched against 259 of them.

Diyarbakır Chamber of Medicine has demanded the release of its Co-Chair, Dr. Şerif Demir, who has been in custody for three days.