Do we have to buy so many weapons? What are we giving up to buy so many weapons? Is it possible to both fill the country with this many weapons and to combat poverty?

In house raids carried out in the early morning hours, some people including the executives of the People’s House, Socialist Refoundation Party (SYKP) and Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP) have been taken into custody.

Speaking after the Presidential cabinet meeting, AKP Chair and President Erdoğan has announced that the status of the Directorate General of Migration Management will be increased to the Presidency of Migration Management.

Convicted of leading a criminal organization, Alaattin Çakıcı has been sentenced to 1 year, 8 months in prison for threatening and insulting CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. He has expressed his belief that “the ruling will change at the appeals court.”

The Ministry of Interior was previously sentenced to pay 1 million 66 thousand lira in damages on the grounds of its “neglect of duty” in the killing of journalist Hrant Dink in 2007. The Council of State has upheld this verdict by a majority of votes.

Dismissed by appointed rector Naci İnci while he was still the acting rector, Can Candan went to the South Campus to give an open class. He is not let in “because there is an instruction from the Rectorate.” He has been waiting at the gate since 10 am.

Amid widespread student protests for affordable housing, the president met with young people.

Two special operations police officers have lost their lives and two police officers have been wounded in an attack in Azaz in Syria.

Standing trial on charge of “neglect of duty” over the bombing of the HDP’s Diyarbakır rally in 2015, 10 police officers have been acquitted and four police officers have been sentenced to 2 months, 15 days in prison, with their sentences deferred.

MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli has targeted the Peoples’ Democratic Party, which is currently facing a closure case before the Constitutional Court, and said that the party must be closed. Criticizing the US as well, he has asked, “Is it a friend of foe?”

Demirtaş's attorney has said that the Committee and the ECtHR Grand Chamber had already evaluated the arguments in Turkey's response.

"Prolonging my detention on flimsy grounds is extrajudicial execution. It is an effort to create misperception," Kavala said at today's hearing.

The family’s lawyer has announced that they will take the acquittal of defendants to the upper court: “Putting aside its own interim rulings, the court has overlooked very important evidence in the file just to hand down a ruling today.”

Attorneys said the merging of the two cases was against the law. After the court rejected the requests for the separation of the cases, attorneys left the courtroom.

With her two sons and spouse killed in an attack by the relatives of a ruling AKP MP and one son arrested, Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have been keeping a justice watch in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 214 days.

The Asrın Law Office has applied to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the convicts in İmralı Prison who are denied their right to have family visitation.

Having issued a declaration titled “Let us win together”, the HDP delegation paid a visit to the main opposition CHP and shared the declaration. CHP’s Salcı has said that they exchanged opinions on the democratic stance document.

Main opposition CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu has been indicted on the grounds that she “insulted” Presidency’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun. She faces 1 year, 2 months to 2 years, 4 months in prison.

We have spoken with three women students from different parts of the country about the housing crisis.

The lawyers of the Dink Family have appealed against the ruling of the İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court. They have objected to the acquittal of some defendants as well as how the investigation was conducted and demanded that the ruling be overturned.