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.

Journalist murders/trials, imprisoned journalists, attacks, threats, and restraints, inquiries, trials, decisions, publication bans, defamation, personal rights and compensation cases, RTUK and ECHR decisions.

Specialist Biçer doubts the statement that the human bones found in a mass grave in Diyarbakır were a hundred years old. He said that the report of the Forensic Medicine Institute was insufficient and announced to apply for an independent investigation.

The trial about the murder of journalist Cihan Hayırsevener was continued on 28 February. 18 defendants are in the dock due to the murder and also on the grounds of corruption in tenders. Just as in the two previous sessions, the secret witness did not appear at court again.

A bus of the riot forces was bombed in front of the AKP Provincial Presidency and the Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen in Istanbul this morning. Ten policemen were slightly injured in the attack.

"We Disapprove" is the name and theme of a signature campaign launched by the Artists Initiative. With their campaign the artists take a stance against the oppression of all opposition groups including artists. Renowned Turkish artists like Edip Akbayram or Levent Kırca support the campaign.

The French Constitutional Council found the draft bill on the criminalization of the denial of genocide contrary to the constitution. The members of the French parliament who applied to the council announced to lift the law.

Murat Polat died as the result of torture in a military prison during his military service in 2005. 30 soldiers were tried, among them also commanders. At the end of the trial, one private was sentenced to imprisonment.

The Greek Baklahorani Carnival was celebrated in big style for the first time since 71 years in Istanbul on 26/27 February. A costumed crowed took over Taksim Square on Sunday; a masked parade took a cheerful course from Feriköy to Tatavla (Kurtuluş) on Shrove Monday.

Skulls, bones and clothes belonging to eleven people have been found in a mass grave in Dargeçit (Mardin). Six people who disappeared in police custody in 1995 were supposedly buried in the mass grave.

RedHack hacked the POLNET police network and the Ankara Police Directorate and seized and published denunciations, complaints and other correspondence related to the worries of sensitive citizens.

Conscientious objector Savda was arrested and taken to prison upon the approval of a five-month prison sentence on charges of "alienating the public from military service". Amnesty International Turkey and the Human Rights Foundation condemned his arrest.

Advocators for freedom of expression from Turkey and abroad expressed their solidarity with detained writer Ragıp Zarakolu in Ankara on 25 February. PEN International Head Schoulgin and Nyegard from the Norwegian Publishers Association sent solidarity messages.

The Human Rights Foundation announced that the finding of human remains in the Mardin Dargeçit mass grave proved right the allegations that have been putting forward for 17 years. The organization demanded the opening of another 253 mass graves.

The investigation about the police officers who beat students in the course protests against the Prime Minister was stalled. Despite visual records the prosecution decided to drop procedures due to a "lack of concrete evidence".

None of the twelve detained defendants, among them several journalists, was released at the hearing of the MKLP trial on 23 February. The next hearing was scheduled for 29 May.

According to an analysis of the Committee to Protect Journalists, "A critical journalist in Turkey these days needs a lawyer on standby. The press is laboring under a creaking judicial system".

Three young people who protested PM Erdoğan while he was on his way home from his office in the Dolmabahçe Palace were taken into custody on 22 February. One day before, another protestor was beaten by Erdoğan's bodyguards and taken into custody.

Oda TV defendant Yurdakul was released from the Silivri Prison due to health reasons after eleven months of detention. Yurdakul had shared a cell with journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener.

On 21 February, the International Mother Language Day, bianet published articles in 20 different languages spoken in Turkey today. Some of these languages are about to disappear and were included to the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages in Danger.