Board Chair of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation Prof. Dr Ş. K. Fincancı faces prison sentence for her statements about N. Bilgen, chair of the Institute for Forensic Medicine 3rd Specialization Chamber. Fincancı had criticised Bilgen and the Institute in an interview.

An established lawyer from the Diyarbakır Bar Association filed a complaint about journalist Özdil for "praising a crime and a criminal" and "inciting the public to hatred". Özdil had evaluated the attack on politician Türk as the expression of the feelings of many people.

Journalist Mustafa Arıgümüş received a prison sentence of eleven months and 20 days because of alleged insult of PM Erdoğan in a published anecdote. Sevda Turaçlar from Adana was convicted for the same offence. A similar case of journalist Kaşkar from Milas is still pending.

In yesterday's hearing of the case against journalist Şener based on his book about the murder of Turkish-Armenian jounalist Dink, former Head of Intelligence Uzun admitted negligence of the police prior to the assassination. He said the murder could have been prevented.

A 14-year-old had his cheek bone broken when he was dragged along by the police in Hakkari. His family filed a complaint about the police officers. The Peace and Democracy Party and the Human Rights Foundation call for the suspension of the Governor and the Chief of Police.

The 7th indictment of the Ergenekon case is ready to be presented to the court. It is concerned with the "Action Plan against Reactionary Forces" allegedly prepared by Colonel Çiçek. Main suspects are İSTEK Foundation President Dalan, Colonel Çiçek and Yılmaz from MİT.

Siirt Mücadele newspaper owner Kılıçoğlu criticized that the recently launched Arabic broadcast of TRT E1Turkey has nothing to do with the Arabic spoken in the region of Siirt in south-eastern Turkey. The broadcast in common Arabic is incomprehensible by speakers of local dialects.

Demirtaş, Co-Chair of the Peace and Democracy Party, criticized the ongoing detention of 1,483 Kurdish politicians, local executives and rights defenders in the context of "KCK operations". "In eight years, we saw nothing but cruelty from AKP", he said.

Due to a decision taken by the Istanbul Governorship Administrative Board, a new investigation can be launched related to the murder case of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink into five former officials of the Istanbul Police Directorate who were on duty at the time.

Ahmet Türk, former co-chair of closed Democratic Society Party, was attacked after a court hearing in Samsun. Türk was taken to hospital and underwent surgery because his nose was broken.

Convict Kılınç died in intensive care where he had been brought from the Izmir 2nd F-Type Prison. Lawyer Paşa Bayraktar claimed that a crack running from Kılınç's forehead to his neck and other injuries substantiate suspicion of torture.

Journalists highlighted the media's impact on hate crimes such as the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink or the killing of employees of a Christian publishing house. The results of the referring studies were discussed at the Conference on Hate Speech and Hate Crimes last weekend.

Newly assigned prosecutor Calık in the torture case of Engin Çeber, who died from torture in detention, requested a life sentence for only two of a total of 60 defendants and acquittal for ten police officers. Lawyer Tanay criticized that the demanded sentences resemble an exemption from punishment.

As part of the "Conference on Hate Speech and Hate Crimes", journalists and human rights defenders discussed the role of the media for the discrimination of minorities. Tolga Korkut from bianet emphasized that journalists should focus on rights and avoid discrimination by using a biased language.

Yaman Akdeniz from the Bilgi University School of Law appreciated Turkey's decision to sign the European Convention on Cyber Crimes. However, Akdeniz emphasized that this was not enough, saying that the protection of individual data should be implemented in domestic law.

The police intervened with tear gas and truncheons against demonstrators voicing their opinions on a democratic constitution in Kadıköy/Istanbul during the weekend. The meeting was attended by 5,000 people, among them members of political parties and non-governmental organizations.

An Istanbul Court dismissed the request to be accepted as joint plaintiffs made by Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper and the Armenian Church. Neither will the file be transferred to a military court as demanded by the defendants' lawyers. The case will continue on 15 April.

A gendarmerie laboratory confirmed that the mine that killed seven soldiers in South-East-Turkey in May 2009 belonged to the army. The prosecution file of the case launched by the victims' families was transferred to the Prosecutor's Office of the General Staff.

Bayandır from the Peace and Democracy Party brought the doubts about the suspicious death of Metin Alataş, employee of the Kurdish Azadiay Welat newspaper, to Interior Minister Atalay. Alataş was attacked a few months prior to his death and had previously claimed to be threatened.

Former MP of the closed Democracy Party Leyla Zana was sentenced to three years' imprisonment under charges of "propaganda for a terror organization" on the grounds of calling PKK leader Öcalan the "Leader of the Kurdish People". Lawyer Gümüş stated to file an appeal.