The management of Ferhat Tunç’s Fan Page has been taken over from him following the promotion of his album Kobani in three languages featured on the Fan Page.

Meral Danış Beştaş releasing the last contact with the wounded awaiting treatment in Cizre has declared that an operation has been launched on the house where they are taking shelter, and couldn’t have received any information for the past 48 hours.

The boat carrying refugees from Ayvacık to Lesbos has sunk. 33 persons have lost their lives, 75 others rescued. The search for survivors continues.

A team of nine doctors and four nurses from TTB and SES having departed to help the injured taking shelter in the basement in Cizre for nine days, have reportedly been stopped.

The municipality determining damage in 350 houses following curfew and operations in Silopi, has formed damage determination committee for reconstruction.

Support letter signed by as many as 500 academics from over 20 countries for Peace for Academics has been issued in The Times’ weekly supplement, the Times Higher Education.

Two soldiers have lost their lives in the clash between security forces and Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement in Diyarbakır’s Sur district where the curfew continues.

In an attack in Cudi neighbourhood of Cizre district of Şırnak province under curfew, one soldier and a police officer have lost their lives. In another armed conflict occurred in the evening hours, another police officer has lost his live.

İstanbul University has reasoned the investigation as “signing a declaration which accuses the state of massacring whereas Yıldız Technical University accused the signatories of acting in a way degrading the state.

Three HDP MPs entering third day of the hunger strike by demanding wounded and bodies stuck in a basement in Cizre to be transferred have called for to not hinder ambulances to set off to carry out the transfer.

15 academics from the US have called for putting an end to the clashes, pointed out to the importance of freedom of expression and declared their support for the Academics for Peace.

Search has been made in Bolu province of house and faculty rooms of six academics signing petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

According to the 2015 statistics of ECtHR, Turkey has been convicted 79 times of violation of human rights. Most complaints have been brought against Turkey regarding violation of freedom of expression.

Poster hanging on the building has photos of children killed, which reminds that the war knows no law.

HDP MPs continuing their hunger strike at Ministry of Interior for ambulances to arrive by wounded stuck in a basement in Cizre have stated that ambulances are blocked, and another injured lost his life.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrei Stavilă was an academic working at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. His contract was in effect between February 2015 and January 2016 and was about to be extended for another two years. But he had to resign on January 18.

Investigation has been launched into Cumhuriyet daily cartoonist Musa Kart over complaint by Presidency Secretary General on the basis of the article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Law.

Telecommunications Communication Presidency has blocked access to the news websites “Yüksekova News”, “Sendika.org” and “Demokrat Haber (Democrat News)”.

A police officer taken to hospital wounded has lost his life, which raised death toll to five.

The first reactions received from European Union regarding the indictment against Dündar and Gül. European Union Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations has noted that “Turkey must ensure full respect of human rights including freedom of expression”.