In his response to Hakan’s article, Minister of Justice Gül has said, “It is not true that the people who wear Hero t-shirt have been victimized”.

Previously detained in Spain upon Turkey’s request, Doğan Akhanlı has been released. The court on duty in Madrid has allotted Turkey 40 days to provide justification for its demand of extradition.

Being detained during the Büyükada operation, İlknur Üstün from the Women’s Coalition has said, “These events are not normal. Considering them normal means to justify these”.

According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey’s statement, there has been at least 252 officially confirmed round-the-clock and open-ended curfews in 11 cities and rights of 1,809,000 people have been violated.

Nurettin Altun, Village Head of Kadıköy neighbourhood of Yüksekova district in Hakkari claimed to have been kidnapped by PKK has been found dead.

Responding to the statement by the Batman governor denying that dynamite was being used for the removal of rocks, HDP MP Aslan asked “Are these then images of children popping balloons?” and protested by chaining himself to a rock in Hasankeyf, the 12,000 year-old ancient town that is under direct threat of being submerged.

Stating that Special Communication Tax that started to be collected to dress the wounds of the August 17 earthquake has become permanent during the AKP, said that 60 billion TL has been collected so far.

Journalists have called for the release of Murat Çelikkan, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charge of “propaganda” for serving as Editor-in-Chief at Özgür Gündem for one day.

Murat Çelikkan enters prison today after being sentenced to 18 months in the trial he faced for joining the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign that was organized by the now-closed newspaper Özgür Gündem.

A suspect detained on charges of being an ISIS member has stabbed a police officer to death in the Security Directorate on Vatan Street.

One soldier was killed and two others were injured in the clashes between soldiers and members of PKK in Dersim. One soldier and a child were killed in another clash between gendarmerie and members of PKK in Trabzon on Saturday.

Women prisoners writing to bianet from Kandıra F-type Prison told about their living conditions which increasingly deteriorated noting that their hairclips and mirrors were being seized and they were not allowed to have any laundry line or a knitting needle, not even plastic ones.