Journalists’ Union of Turkey, Reporters Without Borders and DİSK Press Union have made statements about Sedat Peker’s allegations implying former Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar’s role in the unidentified murders of journalists Mumcu and Adalı.

In house raids carried out in Adana, Şırnak and Dersim provinces, 20 people, including the executives of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and the Democratic Regions Party, have been taken into custody.

The Information Technologies and Communications Authority has blocked access to JinNews, the only women’s news agency in Turkey.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Labor Party (EMEP) have released statements about the Circassian Genocide, urging the authorities to grant Circassian people their rights and to fulfill their demands.

Soldiers opened fire on two young people at the Hakkari border. Speaking to bianet, HDP MP Sait Dede and Bar Chair Ergün Canan have said that the main reason for the incidents is the policy of impunity and lack of solution to the Kurdish question.

“Turkey must immediately end the prosecution of Alphan and compensate her for the damage done to her during this baseless prosecution,” says International Press Institute’s Turkey Programme Coordinator Renan Akyavaş.

As the Şenyaşar family were detained during their sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse, HDP Co-Chair Buldan has taken over the sit-in protest, saying, “The Şenyaşar family will ultimately find the justice they seek.”

The Human Rights Ambassador of France and the Human Rights Commissioner of Germany have released a joint statement about the continued arrested of rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala.

Today marks the 102nd year since 353 thousand people were massacred, thousands of others were exiled and the Greek culture was destroyed.

The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the rights of football player Deniz Naki, who was fined due to his social media posts in 2016, and the rights of Amedspor football club, which was fined due to ‘ideological cheers’, have been violated.

The institutions have urged the Ministry of Justice to make a statement about the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in prisons.

Turkey deported journalist Ans Boersma in early 2019 after receiving intelligence from the Netherlands that she might have "terrorist connections."

“Police officers understand it as a ‘legal duty’ to use guns without hesitation as ‘the first resort’ rather than being ‘the last resort’ in using disproportionate and lethal force,” says a recent report by the Baran Tursun Foundation.

CHP’s Taşcıer has asked Interior Minister Soylu if any investigations have been launched against the neighborhood guards for using disproportionate violence, inflicting torture and maltreatment or using weapons except for specified conditions.

Commenting on the violations of freedom of expression in April, TİHV Secretary General Üsterci says, “Security interventions were mostly against the protests of workers who were dismissed from work due to being members of professional unions.”

While the Governor’s Office stated that the incident was “caused by a traffic accident”, the eye witness said that the attack targeting the Kurdish family was ‘racist’.

Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel has been indicted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on charge of “degrading the State of the Republic of Turkey, its government, judicial bodies and the security organization of the state.”

Sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment, 65-year-old prisoner Ali Osman Köse, a cancer patient, has made an application to the Constitutional Court and requested his release for his treatment.

Raiding the room of Editor-in-Chief of İstiklal Newspaper Arif Çakmak, the assaulter demanded 2 million lira in an attempted armed attack in İstanbul.

An investigation has been launched into the suspicious death of Bayram Mammedov, an Azerbaijani dissident, in İstanbul.