The trial over the death of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu as a result of the tear gas used by the police during a protest demonstration continued with its third hearing at the Trabzon 2nd High Criminal Court today, February 18, 2022.

By a majority of votes, the Parliamentary Joint Commission on Constitution and Justice has concluded that the legislative immunity of HDP MP Semra Güzel should be lifted. The last decision will be given in a vote at the General Assembly.

As no appointment was made to the Executive Board of the BİK, the BİK General Assembly had been unable to meet since February 17, 2021.

Several politicians from the main opposition CHP, İYİ Party and HDP have posted social media messages drawing attention to the lyrics of the song. Pro-government media outlets have argued that the song was composed “on order”.

After no money could be found under the mattress, it is time to look for gold. Why would a person hand over a tool to the system by their own hands despite resorting to that tool because they do not trust the system?

HDP Spokesperson Günay says, “We find the Democracy Alliance important not only for the elections. We want to represent the third way outside the statist blocs and to realize the dream of a democratic country in favor of peoples.”

The Diyarbakır 4th High Criminal Court sentenced Bülbül to 6 years, 3 months in prison on November 26, 2020 on the grounds that he had attended the meetings of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and made speeches there.

Gökhan Biçici, the Editor-in-Chief of dokuz8HABER news website, was on trial for reporting on Anonymous, which cited Berkin Elvan’s killing as an example in response to Erdoğan, who defined and criticized George Floyd’s killing as a “racist attack”.

The former Kurdish MP is kept in prison despite being diagnosed with dementia. Palestine's Leila Khaled aso released a message for solidarity with Tuğluk.

The HDP said it would "ignore those who ignore us," after the summit of the six opposition leaders.

Electricity tariffs of civil society organizations will be changed from "business" to "household" and energy assistance to low-income households will be increases, the president has said.

An unidentified person or persons carried out an armed attack against the Adana Yüreğir District Organization building of the Peoples’ Democratic Party. An explosive substance was also thrown at the building.

Last September, it was alleged that a baby was given a COVID-19 vaccine instead of an Hepatitis B vaccine in İzmir. The lawyer of the family has announced that they have lodged an appeal against the refusal to give permission for investigation.

The 6th Chamber of the Council of State has revoked the “No Environmental Impact Assessment needed” decision given for a stone quarry in Ulubey district in Ordu with no legal remedies available.

The Constitutional Court has rejected the request for journalist Sedef Kabaş’s “immediate release with a cautionary judgment.” In pre-trial detention since late January, Kabaş faces up to 12 years, 10 months in prison on “insult” charges.

The institution has concluded that the politician diagnosed with dementia "had full criminal liability" while not clearly responding to a court request for an assessment of her current condition.

"They don't have a presidential candidate, they don't have a strategic goal, they don't have the slightest preparation for the future. They have talked about how to sit around the table for days," the MHP leader has said.

The Forensic Medicine Institution has presented its report regarding ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk. Finding “mild cognitive impairment”, the report does not have any details about whether Tuğluk is in a medical state to stay in prison.

Germany-based Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Association has shared the findings of a recent survey: 48 percent of young people say that “they don’t trust the President at all”, nearly 73 percent would live abroad if they had the opportunity.

Journalists Hülya Kılınç, Murat Ağırel and Barış Pehlivan were sent to prison yesterday as the appeals court upheld their prison sentences over their news and articles about the funeral of an intelligence officer who died in Libya.