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.”

Five-year-old Onur Özalp, who was hit by an armored police vehicle while playing in front of his house in the district of İdil in Şırnak nine months ago, has lost his life. Özalp was living in his house, connected to a life support unit.

Max Zirngast, a journalist from Austria, and Mithatcan Türetken and Hatice Göz, who are members of the Social Freedom Party Constituent Assembly, have been arrested.

PEN Turkey Center has released a statement on the occasion of the International Day of Peace and said, “We have to live together in peace!”

The curfew, which was declared in five villages and neighborhoods in the district of Eruh in Turkey’s southeastern province of Siirt on the ground of an operation to be conducted in the region, has been lifted.

Hanifi Barış, an attorney and academic from the Academics for Peace, who was arrested due to his social media posts on July 4, has been released on probation.

Academics from the universities of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, MIT and Columbia have expressed their support for Osman Kavala by stating, “10 months in detention with no trial or even an indictment. Is this justice? We stand with Osman Kavala.”

Imprisoned journalist Metin Duran has been released from prison after the Forensic Medicine Institution has issued a report stating that “he cannot stay in prison.”