In the second hearing of the "Bayrampaşa trial" related to the "return to life" operation, the court decided to obtain the results of a previous probe into then Minister of Justice Türk, Minister of the Interior Tantan, Gendarmerie Commander Yalman and other officials.

Pro-Kurdish DTP member Alınak is tried together with another 93 people under "propaganda" charges on the grounds of a critical press release issued after the ban of the political party. Alınak will apply to the ECHR for the right to a defence in Kurdish as his mother tongue.

The Trabzon 2nd Criminal Court applied for a merger of the trial against Ali Öz, prosecuted for allegedly disregarding crucial information obtained prior to the Hrant Dink murder, and the trial against 7 gendarmerie officers heard at the Trabzon 1st High Criminal Court.

44 members of IFEX, among them the Initiative Against Thought Crimes and the IPS Communication Foundation, urged UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet to take measures regarding violence against women who struggle for freedom of expression and are exposed to violence and oppression due to their gender.

39 gendarmerie officers are tried in the case regarding the "return to life" operation which left 30 people dead in Turkish prisons in 2000. 27 out of the 28 defendants that appeared at court claimed that they did not remember anything.

Milliyet newspaper employees Durukan and Çakkalkurt were acquitted of charges of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization" on the grounds of one of their news items and so were Günlük daily officials Koçali and Pekgöz who were tried for the same reason.

By majority vote, RTÜK imposed a heavy monetary fine to the news channel CNN Türk on the grounds of a statement made by Kurdish politician Özçelik in the program "What's going on". He had described the militant PKK as a "political movement".

18 students were sentenced to 1 year and 3 month each behind bars because of criticizing PM Erdoğan at the opening ceremony of the Istanbul Technical University. They had voiced their protest in slogans and banners.

Atalay, mayor of the south-eastern province of Batman, was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for alleged spreading of propaganda for an illegal organization. Gençdal from the Group for a Peaceful and Democratic Solution received a 20-month sentence.

"Custody, detention and oppression do not intimidate us" was written on the banners of 300 protestors who criticized the detention of 13 left wing activities in a demonstration in Istanbul. The members of legal political groups were arrested two months ago and are still in prison.

Two Taraf newspaper writers are in the eye of the judiciary once again. The Ministry of Justice issued permission for an investigation about journalist Kütahyalı. Kurdish politician and journalist Miroğlu is tried for expressing his thoughts on the Kurdish question.

The Prosecution announced that no arrest warrant was issued in the name of Tuncay Güney, a mysterious key figure of the Eregenekon trial, because he benefited from the law of repentance.