President Erdoğan has said the arrested Die Welt correspondent Yücel is not a journalist but terrorist.

Turkey has reacted to Germany not granting permission to the meeting which Minister of Justice Bozdağ would attend. Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu has said, “This has become a systematical practice of the German deep state”.

The permission granted for the meeting in which Minister of Justice Bozdağ would give a speech this night in Gaggenau province of Germany has been cancelled.

The number of statutory decrees issued under the State of Emergency (OHAL) from July 21, 2016 to February 9, 2017 has reached 21. The Human Rights Joint Platform’s Feray Salman and Aysel Ergün added 6 new statutory decrees to their report. The report, which covers statutory decrees No. 667-681, analyzes the current extent of human rights violations under OHAL.

Ağrı co-Mayor Sırrı Sakık from Democratic Regions Party has been discharged from his position by the Ministry of Interior. Sakık’s position has been replaced by Ağrı Governor Musa Işın.

A lawsuit has been filed demanding up to 21 years in prison on three charges against HDP Ağrı MP Zana.

The HDP and DBP have declared that they would combine the Newroz celebrations that will begin on March 17 with “No” campaign.

PM Yıldırım has stated that there is no finalized decision about the operation planned to be launched into Raqqa.

About Hürriyet newspaper’s article called “Headquarters is Disturbed”, Vice PM Kurtulmuş has said “It looks as there are some who is disturbed by the Turkish Armed Forces working in harmony with civil will and government in Turkey”.

The HDP has filed a criminal complaint upon Minister of Interior Soylu’s statements against HDP co-Chair Demirtaş on charges of “defaming” and inciting people to animosity and hostility”.

President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government Barzani, Ahmet Türk and Sırrı Sakık had a meeting yesterday discussing about how to get back to the spirit of 2013 when the peace negotiations had started.

A bomb attack has been launched on a freight train bound for Batman from Diyarbakır. There are no casualties in the attack.

HDP Urfa MP İbrahim Ayhan has been detained at Urfa Airport. Ayhan has been released following the prosecution questioning.

PM Yıldırım has responded to “strongman regime” criticisms directed against the new constitution to be voted in constitutional amendment referendum: “So what?”

Two Turkish army soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in an attack in al-Bab, Syria. The soldiers were part of Operation Euphrates Shield, jointly run by the Turkish Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army.

M.A.A. who set Müjdat Gezen Art Center on fire has been released on probation by the court which he was referred to for arrest following the prosecution questioning.

TSK-backed FSA has announced that it has seized control in al-Bab center.

M.A.A who set Müjdat Gezen Art’s Center on fire has in his statement said; “I did this in reaction to him insulting the grandchild of Abdul Hamid Han. I did this under the influence of alcohol”.

Charges have been pressed against HDP Diyarbakır MP Altan Tan for five different crimes. Tan faces from 17.5 to 38.5 years in prison.

An investigation has been launched into CHP Lüleburgaz District President within the scope of Anti-Terror Law due to the brochures and magazines prepared by the party.