The blog-publishing service blogspot.com was censored upon the complaint of the Digitürk Satellite Television Company related to football broadcasts. The access to the entire number of blogs is banned. Social networking sites started protest campaigns.

The police is currently searching the homes of journalists Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, Yalçın Küçük, OdaTV.com site writers İlkin Bayaktar and Mümtaz İdil, author Müyesser Yıldız in Ankara, former MIT member Kaşif Kozinoğlu and Sait Kılıç.

The appeals against the arrest of 162 detained defendants of the "Sledgehammer" trials were rejected by majority vote because the defendants might conceal evidence otherwise. Court President Akçay opposed the decision, saying the arrests were "not just".

At a meeting of the Association for Solidarity and Support of Relatives of Disappeared People, Tosun demanded to disclose classified state documents to learn who his buried where. Bektaş urged for reasonable accuracy and care during and after the excavations.

Former İliç Prosecutor Bozkurt filed a TL 100,000 compensation claim against Radikal newspaper reporter Saymaz and two executives of the daily on the grounds of two news articles that allegedly constituted an "attack on his personal rights".

Eylül magazine editor Süsem eventually received a life sentence after the related ruling had bounced between the local court and the Court of Appeals three times. Süsem was the detained defendant of a trial regarding the magazine that was published in 2010.

The Union of Kurdistan Communities announced the end of the ceasefire declared in August last year as a response to the government's failing to take concrete steps to the solution of the Kurdish question.

Journalist Topçu was sentenced to eleven months in jail on the grounds of his criticism on Rize Mayor Bakırcı who had suggested "co-wives for Kurds" in order to solve the Kurdish question. At the same time, Black Sea journalists associations condemned recent police violence against journalists.

The prosecution of Ogün Samast, one of the prime suspects in the murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, started on 28 February at a juvenile court in Istanbul. Samast's request for a closed session was rejected. Nine of Dink's relatives were accepted as co-plaintiffs.

1.1 million signatures were submitted to the Turkish Parliament as a result of the campaign for "Education in the Mother Language" initiated by the Democratic Society Congress two months ago. The petition will also be forwarded to the EU, the UN and the UNESCO.

The Commission on Global Peace and Justice organized the "International Meeting for a World without War" in Istanbul last weekend, focusing on the the Kurdish question. Academics, politicians and relatives of the disappeared contributed to the discussion.

Journalists Yalçın, Pehlivan and Terkoğlu from the Oda TV news site applied to court for their release pending trial. They were arrested last week. Journalist Balbay, detained in the scope of the Ergenekon trial for 31 months, applied to the ECHR.

Dicle News Agency reporter Yıldız and Güneydoğu Ekspress reporter Dayan were each sentenced to almost eight years in prison together with another 23 defendants who attended a demonstration in 2008. Both journalists said they followed the event for professional reasons.

Three activists of the Pink Life LGBT Association are sued for alleged resistance against the police. They had refused to be taken to the police station without a concrete reason. The complaining police officers failed to appear at any of the hearings.

The Court of Appeals found the one-year prison sentences for nine defendants who threw eggs to Prime Minister Erdoğan in 2006 too little. This sort of protest was to be seen as a "restriction of the use of freedom of thought and opinion", the court ruled.

The offices of the People's Daily newspaper, the Democratic Peoples Association and the home of members of the Democratic Peoples Federation in seven provinces and counties were raided by the police. 23 people were taken into custody, among them two journalists.

Students of the Mersin University were exposed to police violence even before they started a protest action they had planned prior to the campus visit of President Gül. 42 students were taken into police custody.

Former referee Dinçdağ opened a trial against the Turkish Football Federation because he was kicked out of the referee staff when it turned out that Dinçdağ is homosexual. The federation claimed that "persons exempt from military service cannot be appointed as referees".

A local court of Devrek followed the decision of the Court of Appeals and dropped procedures against journalist Tığ. The owner of the Local News daily had been sued by former Devrek District Governor Tapsız.

Despite legal changes in the Anti-Terror Law, 75 children were taken into custody during last week. 55 of them were arrested and imprisoned. Amnesty International launched a campaign for children who became victims of the Anti-Terror Law.