Max Zirngast, a journalist from Austria who has been behind bars in Ankara since September 21, has been released from prison. An international travel ban has been imposed on the journalist.

Submitting a parliamentary question to be responded by Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, HDP Muş MP Kılıç Koçyiğit has brought the allegations regarding the murder of one person in Sakarya because he was Kurdish into parliamentary agenda.

Releasing a joint statement regarding the prison sentence given to Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a signatory to the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, rights and law organizations have said, “Advocacy for human rights cannot be sentenced.”

Akpınar and Gezen, against whom the İstanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation due to their statements on a TV program, have been released on probation after their depositions at the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the wake of an investigation launched against them due to their statements on a television program, theater and film actors Metin Akpınar and Müjdat Gezen have been referred to court after deposing at the Prosecutor's Office.

The Governorship of Diyarbakır has announced that a curfew has been declared in two villages and five hamlets in the district of Lice in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır on the ground of an operation to be launched in the region.

While presenting his statement of defense, academic Alper Akyüz, who could not remember the subject in question, has been interrupted by Presiding Judge: “You are an academic, know and have researched everything. Don’t you remember it?”

Releasing a written statement about the prison sentences given to academics Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Gençay Gürsoy, Amnesty İnternational has stated that these sentences have openly revealed the malicious attitude towards rights defenders.

Prof. Korur-Fincancı has commented on the prison sentence she has been given: “The state, which did not let us into prisons as civil organizations who are striving for human rights, lets me in as 'an official monitoring investigator'”.

Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, who signed the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime” prepared by Academics for Peace, has been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. Her sentence has not been reduced or suspended.

At the 28th İstanbul Heavy Penal Court, academic Gülçin Karabağ has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”; the announcement of the verdict has been suspended.

Erdoğan has threatened Fatih Portakal, whom he accuses of calling people to streets, saying “If you do not know your place, this nation will hit you in the back of your neck”. He has also repeated the claims that Gezi protesters entered a mosque with beer bottles.