The situation of rule of law and human rights remains the main obstacle to a positive agenda between Brussels and Ankara, Nacho Sánchez Amor has said.

The Parliamentary Joint Commission on Constitution and Justice has submitted its report in favor of lifting the legislative immunity of HDP MP Güzel to the General Assembly of the Parliament. Güzel faces two separate summaries of proceedings.

Lawyers from the Prisons Commission of the Human Rights Association (İHD) Adana Branch visited the Kürkçüler Type F Closed Prison, met with nine prisoners and prepared a report based on their accounts and observations.

The Magna Charta Observatory calls on Erdoğan “to enable Boğaziçi University and all universities in Turkey to reach their full potential by respecting the spirit of UN agreements and enabling universities to operate in accordance with the Magna Charta.”

The journalist who owned a local newspaper in Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey, was shot dead in his office last week.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey has also released a statement and recommended that the citizens currently in Ukraine should stay home or in a safe place. It has been stated that the ones who want to leave the country will be offered support.

Offering a series of languages including Adyghe, Abkhazian, Kurmanji, Kırmancki, Laz language, Georgian, Bosnian and Albanian, the Living Languages and Dialects elective court was chosen by 23,028 students in 2021 and by 24,368 this year.

The academics and alumni of Boğaziçi University met Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Chair Erinç Sağkan and requested that a Higher Education Commission be established under the roof of the TBB.

In Turkey for some time to exchange opinions, European Parliament (EP) Standing Rapporteur on Turkey Nacho Sánchez Amor visited three opposition parties.

According to a report prepared by the Education and Science Laborers’ Union, students suffered significant losses in their cognitive, emotional, social and psychomotor development during the distance education period in 2020-2021.

The court has issued the detailed ruling in the case of journalist Rojhat Doğru. A judge dissented from the verdict, citing an expert witness report.

“This is such a weird mentality that they cannot even tolerate a song that says ‘These bad days will pass.’ There is no curse or insult, but hope in the song. But they are even allergic to hope,” says Akşener about Tarkan’s song ‘This shall pass’.

The Çanakkale 2nd Administrative Court has given a decision of stay of execution for the “Assos Rock Reclamation” project undertaken in the Assos Ancient City and Harbor.

Main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: “It is generally said, ‘But, sir, they will never go away.’ What do you mean by ‘they will never go away’? We will send them away with the will of the nation.”

Two opposition politicians' alleged private messages about the plot were not real but an "amateurish attempt to fabricate evidence," prosecutors have said.

Lawyer and Human Rights Association Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan had his first hearing in the trial where he faces charges over his rights advocacy activities. The court has ruled that his international travel ban shall remain in effect.

Lawyer Şahin says that though the former math teacher was not given a prison sentence at the lower limit, he should have been penalized at the upper limit given the indignation the incident caused and the way in which the crime was committed.

Nationalist Movement Party Chair Devlet Bahçeli spoke at the weekly group meeting of his party, addressing a series of issues on the agenda including the tension between Ukraine and Russia and Tarkan’s new song “Geççek” (This shall pass).

The case against the DİAYDER association was the basis for an Interior Ministry investigation into the opposition-led İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

Ahead of the first hearing of lawyer and Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan, the İHD and Human Rights Watch have released statements underlining that there is an attempt to put pressure on rights advocacy by judicial means.