Police have “detained” the Human Rights Monument and encircled the area with barriers because Gülmen and Özakça were detained on the grounds that “it might trigger an event like Gezi Resistance or Tekel Resistance”.

Educators Gülmen and Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 76 days, were detained yesterday and that taken to Ankara Courthouse to give statement to the prosecutor’s office.

Film-maker and director Ken Loach, film producer Rebecca O’Brien and PEN International have delivered messages in support of Gülmen and Özakça who are in detention on the 76th day of their hunger strike.

Nine people who were detained during staging a protest in support of Gülmen and Özakça in Kadıköy have been released.

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça were detained in a police operation launched on their home on the 75th day of their hunger strike on the grounds that “the protest could evolve to a death fast and may trigger event like Gezi Resistance or Tekel Resistance”.

Curfew has been declared in Kurşunlu, Taşağıl, Kırkpınar and Kayıköy villages in Dicle district of Diyarbakır due to planned operations.

After five months of arrest, Human Rights Foundation Mersin Office Chair Tanrıverdi has been released in the first hearing of his trial.

ETHA correspondent Gayip has been detained during a police raid launched into her home. Gayıp’s phone has been seized

The Thought Platform has launched a petition on change.org about the Armenians not being able to elect a patriarch for over eight years.

Police have again intervened in the protest area on the 71st day of Gülmen and Özakça’s hunger strike. The flowers have been removed, banners burned, five people detained.

On the 70th day of their hunger strike, academic Gülmen and teacher Özakça could not make it to the Human Rights Monument on Yüksel Street of Ankara where they have been staging a protest during their hunger strike since they did not feel well today.

Tunceli Bar President Yıldırım has declared that they met with the governor and that the governorship told him that demands of Kemal Gün, who has been on hunger strike for 83 days to retrieve his son’s body, will be met.

President Erdoğan’s bodyguards have intervened in the scuffle erupted between protesters and Erdoğan supporters as Erdoğan went to the Turkish Embassy. Two people have been detained, nine others wounded.

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has closed down 1453 İstanbul Kültür ve Sanat magazine due to its cover photo with a cat and a graffiti reading “Erdo-gone” behind that, and that it filed a criminal complaint.

Of the Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch Çelikkan has been sentenced to 18 and Üstün to 15 months in prison. As Üstün’s sentence was deferred, Çelikkan’s sentence was not as he “didn’t show remorse”.

Police have attacked the people who were on watch to act in solidarity with Gülmen and Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 69 days.

Three women attorneys, who are from the ÇHD), attempting to protest the authorities’ unresponsiveness for the hunger strike of Gülmen and Özakça have been dragged on the floor and taken into custody.

The litterateurs have called on the authorities: “The authorities must step in to meet the demands of Gülmen and Özakça, who protest their unjust discharges and demand that they be reinstated to their job”.

What is the rationale behind sentencing Sibel in such a mad rush where there has been no investigation yet launched into the ones who shot her?

Police have cleared the Human Rights Monuments where Gülmen and Özakça have been resisting for 185 days on Yüksel Street, four people have been detained.