A Diyarbakır Court sentenced Kurdish Azadiya Welat newspaper owner Ozan Kılınç to 15months imprisonment each for twelve issues of the paper. Additionally, he received a six years three months sentences charged with "committing a crime on behalf of an illegal organization". An arrest warrant was issued for Kılınç.

Thousands of people in several cities organized demonstrations on the 11th anniversary of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's extradition to Turkey. BDP members voiced their protest against arrests of party members due to the "KCK operation". Clashes occurred in several cities.

Illustrator Halil İbrahim Özdabak from Yeni Asya newspaper is tried with a TL 20,000 compensation claim after he had already been on trial for the very same caricature showing "a court podium on top of a tank".

Mehmet Kurt, owner of Channel 6, and two other people have been released, three construction workers from Erzincan were arrested in the context of the Ergenekon investigation. The second Ergenekon case requested all documents related to Bülent Ecevit's treatment.

Co-patriarchate candidate Sebuy Çulçiyan visited Istanbul in the run-up to the elections. Çulciyan called for brotherhood and said that murdered journalist Hrant Dink's message of dialogue and communication is being conveyed beyond his death.

The Judicial Office decreed to account journalist Mustafa Balbay's pronouncement as part of freedom of expression, regarding his reference to Prof. Baskın Oran as an example of "bought-out intellectuals". The comment was assessed as "harsh criticism".

In operations carried out in eleven provinces last weekend the police arrested more than 100 people, most of them members of the Peace and Democracy Party. Of all people arrested in Hakkari, 15 persons were taken into detention.

Armenian Agos newspaper was threatened frequently before and after the murder of editor-in-chief Hrant Dink. Now the newspaper's website has been hacked. Lawyer Çetin criticized that the judiciary lacks efficiency for crimes committed via the internet.

A hacker forced access to the website of Armenian Agos newspaper and posted a photograph of Hrant Dink murderer suspect Ogün Samast on the main page. The hacker published threats and insults towards people who supported assassinated journalist Dink.

Kurdish artists Rojda was taken into custody by reason of having spread "propaganda for an illegal organization" by performing a Kurdish song at a festival in Diyarbakır. Rojda is one of 160 artists invited by the Prime Minister to discuss the "Kurdish initiative".

Relatives of victims of political murders visited the Parliament to talk to officials of five political parties, the parliamentary chairman and the Head of the Parliamentarian Commission for Human Rights. They sought answers to prevent further murders.

The Eskişehir Military Court imposed a one-month disciplinary fine on conscientious objector Enver Aydemir because of his refusal to wear prison clothes and disobedience of orders. Aydemir is not allowed for one month to see anybody else but his lawyer.