The Prosecutor’s Office has announced its opinion as to the accusations regarding academics Mungan, Camcı, Kaya and Ersoy in their eighth hearing held 30 months after they were arrested. The office has demanded that the academics be penalized.

In an attack that was launched on the district of Çukurca in Hakkari from Zap region, one soldier has lost his life. One civilian and three soldiers have also been injured.

According to a report by Diyarbakır Bar Center for Child Rights, the youngsters some of whom were children at that time are still having psychological issues.

Six academics from Boğaziçi University have had their second hearings. Two academics have not attended the hearings. The case files of three academics have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for opinion as to the accusations.

The Ministry of Interior has announced that 320 social media accounts have been investigated and legal action has been taken against 263 people over the last week.

49 people have been taken into custody in a simultaneous operation that was conducted in six cities. While the house of the family of Ethem Sarısülük, who was killed during Gezi resistance, has been raided, writer Temel Demirer has also been detained.

The 16th Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the prison sentence of 9 years, 4 months and 15 days given to journalist Mehmet Güleş, who was a reporter at Dicle News Agency, which was closed as per a Statutory Decree.

Curfew has been declared in 11 villages and neighborhoods in Turkey’s southeastern province of Siirt. An operation has been launched in the region after the curfew.

The court has presented opinion as to the accusations in the first hearing of Prof. Dr. Öktem-Tanör and issued an arrest warrant for Prof. Dr. Serdar Değirmencioğlu.

30 students of Boğaziçi University, who have been charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”, have had their second hearings. Their international travel bans have been lifted and requests for being exempted from hearings have been accepted.

According to a report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, curfew was declared for at least 332 times since August 16, 2015. Diyarbakır became the city with the greatest number of curfews declared with 190 curfews.

The Human Rights Association has released a statement about Vefa Kartal, who has been on a hunger strike in Tekirdağ Prison for 89 days. The association has stated that a simple decision of the prison administration can put an end to his hunger strike.

Kept in prison since November 1, 2017, business person and human rights activist Osman Kavala’s 61st birthday has been celebrated in Columbia, London and İstanbul.

The Saturday Mothers/People, who have been prevented from gathering at Galatasaray Square since the 700th week, have made their statement for the press under police blockade in their 705th week.

In the wake of the ban imposed on three books published by Avesta Publishing House, HDP Siirt MP Meral Danış-Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary inquiry and asked, “On what grounds do these books incite the public to enmity and hatred?”

Academic Zübeyde Gaye Çankaya Eksen and Dr. Lecturer N.Ö. from Galatasaray University have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison at their fifth hearing. The prison sentences of the academics have been suspended.

Lawyers and representatives of non-governmental organizations have staged a protest against the armed attack that was carried out against the office of attorney Heval Yıldız Karasu in Eskişehir.

Journalist Can Dündar, who lives in Germany, has said that he will attend the joint press conference that will be held by Chancellor of Germany Merkel and President Erdoğan during his state visit and added that he will ask a question to Erdoğan.

11 academics have had their hearings at five separate courts. Two academics from Boğaziçi University have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. Their sentences have been suspended.

“Considering this incentive, I can very well declare my intention - for my artistic sensitivity on the people’s pain is considered ‘terrorist organization propaganda’ in a rather ill-mannered way.”