Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Chair and rights advocate Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı has been awarded the Hessian Peace Prize.

At the hearing of academic Saysel, Presiding Judge has stated that he has no knowledge of the resolution process and was on duty in Kars at the time. He has added, “You should collect money and send to people there, writing a declaration is not enough.”

Governorship of Diyarbakır has announced that the operation launched in the province has ended and the curfews previously declared in 77 villages and hamlets in Hazro, Lice and Kocaköy have been lifted. It has been the 191th curfew lifted in Diyarbakır.

13 academics have had their hearings at two courts. The Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that academic Esra Arsan be penalized as per the Article no. 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law. Arsan has not requested that the announcement of the verdict be suspended.

Public Prosecutor of Saudi Arabia Saud al-Mojeb, who has been in İstanbul as part of the investigation launched into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has visited the İstanbul Courthouse and the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey.

ECtHR has given its judgement in the case of Kaboğlu and Oran, who applied to the court after hate speech and threats they were subjected to due to their Minority Report were met with impunity. The court has sentenced Turkey to pay 7 thousand Euro in damages.

The Governorship of Diyarbakır has announced that a curfew has been declared in 77 villages and hamlets in the district of Hazro, Lice and Kocaköy in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır on the ground of an operation to be conducted in the region.

Hamburg Central Foreigners’ Registration Office has announced that journalist Adil Yiğit, whose residence permit has not been extended and who has been demanded to leave Germany on January 20, 2019 the latest, will not be deported from Germany.

Kurdish journalist-artist Zehra Doğan is presented her "IWMF 2018 Courage in Journalism Award" in a representational ceremony in New York where she reaches the audience by a voice recording taped during a phone call from prison.

More than two years since the first dismissals began, tens of thousands of public sector workers are still living in limbo and without access to an effective remedy.

Being prevented from gathering at Galatasaray Square since the 700th week, Saturday Mothers/People have asked the fate of Hüseyin Toraman, who disappeared in custody in 1991, in front of Human Rights Association’s building in Beyoğlu in the 709th week.

The Şırnak 1st Heavy Penal Court has ruled that the arrest of journalist Ziya Ataman, who has been behind bars in the Van Type M Prison for two years, shall continue.

The court board has announced its verdict in the case of journalists İnan Kızılkaya, İhsan Çaralan and Hüseyin Aykol, who have been tried on charge of “insulting the president”. While the journalists have been sentenced to a total of 4 years, 9 months and 12 days in prison, the prison sentence of Aykol has not been suspended.

The İstanbul 28th Heavy Penal Court has ruled that academic Fevziye Deniz Tarba Ceylan shall be sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison as per the Article no. 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law. The prison sentence of the academic has been suspended.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Co-Chair Eren Keskin has become one of the three finalists who have been nominated for the 2019 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, which is granted by 10 leading human rights organizations of the world.

Three academics have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison as per the Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law. Prison sentences of academics have been suspended.

The court board has ruled that the international travel bans of METU students, who were previously arrested on charge of "insulting the president" for having carried a banner during their graduation ceremony, shall be lifted.

Academic Naciye Gülengül Altıntaş, who has been dismissed from her post at Bahçeşehir University, has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The announcement of the verdict has been suspended.

The official news agency of Saudi Arabia has announced that journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died as a result of a row that broke out inside the Consulate General in İstanbul.

In response to a reporter asking him about the allegations of meat import without tender, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has said, “What you do here is not journalism, but foolery.”