Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, also known as 'Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca, had Taraf newspaper journalist Fırat Alkaç threatened after he had invited him for an interview. Reason for the threat was the journalist's article about the Ismailağa Congregation.

Today a further eighteen soldiers, one of them retired, were taken into police custody. They are being brought to Istanbul.

Yesterday evening, retired generals Fırtına, Örnek and Saygun were released after being questioned by the prosecution. Today Çetin Doğan and Engin Alan are making statements.

Istanbul prosecutors will follow up the file of Erzincan Chief Prosecutor Cihaner. HSYK appointed successors for the Erzurum prosecutors responsible for the search and arrest of Cihaner. Lawyer Serbest applied to the ECHR upon the HSYK decision. 25 bar associations objected Cihaner's arrest.

The Defence Commission does not keep records of its meetings. The Parliamentary Record Office says they were never requested to keep record of the commission. Deputy council Akyeşilmen emphasizes the importance of a public record for more transparency.

The 7th report of the Alevi Workshop was presented to the prime minister on 7 February. The report does not include the requests put forward by the Alevi associations in the first workshop.

The European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of a breach of freedom of religion. Sinan Işık had applied to change the religious indication on his ID from "Islam" to "Alevi". The court saw the root of the problem in the very existence of the field of indication.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with leaders of Northern and Southern Cyprus to support negotiations for a "united Cyprus". Ban: "A mutually beneficial solution requires courage, flexibility, a vision and the spirit of reconciliation".

The Peace and Democracy Party elected two new co-chairs at an extraordinary party congress. MP Demirtaş is the former president of the Human Rights Foundation Branch of Diyarbakır; journalist Kışanak is co-ordinator of social projects of the Bağlar Municipality.

Chief of General Staff Başbuğ announced that an investigation has been launched into the alleged "Balyoz" coup plan in order to "reveal the truth" and that leakage of information will be investigated too.

The Constitutional Court cancelled the law that orders the prosecution of soldiers for organized crime at special authority high criminal courts. This decision will affect pending trials and investigations. Retired judge Kardaş: "This is a step backwards that strengthens militarism".

It is only just to seek a way other than a recourse to our "mind and conscience" regarding the true nature of our General Staff's "Balyoz". Our minds and consciences are still so very busy with the deep wounds torn open by the executions of our colleagues in the "Flag" campaign on 12 September - we cannot take on the job of relieving the conscience of our Armed Forces.

MP Halis from Tunceli handed in a proposal for recognizing Alevi 'cem' houses as places of worship. He suggests the amendment of three laws. A similar proposal made by crossbench MP Genç from Tunceli in 2008 was not considered by the parliament.

According to Taraf newspaper, a plan to bring the country into disorder was worked out in 2003. Bombings of mosques during the Friday prayer, crashing a Turkish jet plane and warplanes flying over the parliament should lead to martial law and a coup.

Four people were arrested related to the spending of secret funds at the command of Şener Eruygur, who apparently received TL 13,000,000 from the fund. Ergenekon defendant Ersöz stated that all referring documents were destroyed before Eruygur's retirement.

Peace and Democracy Party member Halis suggested a draft bill for lifting religious indication on Turkish identity cards. According to legal amendments made in 2006, religious indication still exists. The according field can be left blank upon a written application only.

Researcher Kar sees the roots of the current controversy between Turkey and Israel in the deadlocked Palestine negotiations."Turkey tries to maintain public sympathies for Arab-Islam. This can be done by opposing Israel. However, military and economic agreements endure".

AKP member Kuzu made clear that the government is not going to touch the Constitution and the election threshold. BDP member Uras criticized the threshold conforms to AKP and CHP, constitutional lawyer Kaboğlu stated that the threshold percentage could be amended easily.

The decision of the closure of Democratic Society Party taken by the Constitutional Court in December has been published in the Official Gazette and thus been legally enforced. Hereupon, the political ban for 37 DTP members comes into effect and the MP status of the co-chairs officially ends.

Judge Kayan carried out the fifth search of the Special Forces. The court released all 8 soldiers that had been arrested after the first search last week despite the prosecutors' request of keeping three military officers in detention.