The new prosecutor of the trial related to the Spice Bazaar blast in Istanbul in the late 1990s reiterated the claim for an aggravated life sentence for Pınar Selek. Her father Alp Selek told bianet that the prosecutor repeated the final speech given seven years earlier.

In the end of February, RedHack started publishing notification e-mails, police officers' e-mails and passwords after hacking related databases of the police. The hackers group now announced to continue publishing the seized data in a system like "Wikileaks".

In the report on the Pozantı Prison, MP Kürkçü called for the urgent release of the victimized children prisoners. He emphasized the need for education and rehabilitation for the children who ought to be sent to their families as soon as possible.

AKP deputies voted against the initiative of CHP MPs to debate a proposal against the time-barring of the Sivas massacre in parliament. CHP deputy Tanrıkulu commented, "They will not be able to explain this to the public conscience".

CHP Deputy Gök announced that the report of the Military Electronics Industry corporation confirmed the commission's interpretation of the Uludere massacre. He questioned, "Since they determined pack animals, why did they not consider that these people might be villagers?"

The laureates of the 52nd Turkey Journalism Achievements annually bestowed by the Turkey Journalism Association were announced. bianet will be awarded in the field of internet journalism.

Journalists and politicians in Northern Cyprus criticized Minister Bağış's suggestion to "connect Northern Cyprus to Turkey".

On 3 March, the International Sex Worker Rights Day, sex workers in Ankara raised their voices against police violence and demanded, "Hands off my body".

On 3 March, the ANGA organization and activists for freedom of journalists demonstrated in Istanbul to mark the first anniversary of the arrest of journalists Şık and Şener. Their message: "You cannot silence us by imprisoning journalists and laying them off".

University students Alkan and Söylemez were detained for six months on the grounds of certain posters they carried before they were released pending trial. Due to a recent legal amendment the prosecutor was allowed additional time till the next hearing to present his final plea.

Access was banned to the kizilhack.org (RedHack) website on the grounds of alleged catalogue crimes as mentioned in Law No. 5651. Internet experts Akdeniz and Altıparmak criticized the access ban saying that the activities of Redhack were not included in the catalogue crimes.

Reporters Without Borders appreciated the French Constitutional Court's decision against the law proposal related the denial of genocide. The international organization now urged Turkish authorities to fulfil their responsibilities regarding free speech.