Former Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar submitted his testimony to the parliamentary commission in charge of investigating the corruption probe. “I didn’t do anything illegal and unlawful,” he said.

It turned out that the request of media on the investigation of four former deputies for corruption allegation was not made by the Parliament Chairman Cemil Çiçek but the parliamentary commission chairman Hakkı Köylü.

Republican People’s Party Vice Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu took the media ban on the investigation regarding the four former ministers in the parliamentary investigation commission to the court. P24 Independent Journalism Platform also said they will submit a motion.

BirGün newspaper responsible editor and owner were fined for blasphemy due to two articles written by an anonymous columnist with the nickname “Tanrı (cc)” - god in Turkish.

Justice Ministry responded positively to People’s Democratic Party’s request to visit PKK leader Öcalan on Imralı Island. The extended delegation of 5 members will head to Imralı on November 30.

Initially opened in Adana province, Reyhanlı case has been transferred again from Hatay to Ankara for “security reasons”. Attorneys and victim families ask why deserted courtrooms posed a security threat.

As various Alevi associations released a statement saying that authorities disregarded them, police assaulted with tear gas several groups who assembled to protest the visit of PM Ahmet Davutoğlu to the eastern province of Dersim.

Şıvan Bayar, a history teacher major in Mersin University, died in action against ISIS in the Kurdish-Syrian town Kobane.

Religious Affairs (Diyanet) leader annouced that they have been building mosques around 80 universities across Turkey. “We care about campus mosques in the city,” he said.

HDP Group Interim Co-Chair Buldan announced that the resolution process would continue with a 5-member delegation to Imralı Prison, an observation council and a new secretariat - a participation of 25 to 30 officials in total.

Ahmet Özmen from Diyarbakır Bar Association told bianet that the reservations that Turkey put Convention on the Rights of the Child were related to Kurdish children’s rights. “The removal of these reservations will also alleviate the government,” he said.

No progress has been made in today’s hearing of Hasan Ferit Gedik case where 35 suspects are charged with “attempted murder of Hasan Ferit Gedik” as well as “founding a crime organization”, “property damage” during the riots in Gülsuyu neighborhood in 2013.