Currently abroad, journalist Can Dündar has commented on the ruling handed down by the court: “A government which has confiscated and used up people’s accumulation of 100 years will naturally not refrain from having designs on our house.”

Forty-one lawyers were detained during police raids on September 11.

The İstanbul Directorate of Security has requested the finalized detailed rulings on Academics for Peace from the İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court. Attorney Kılıç has raised concerns that with this request, the directorate attempts to profile the academics.

Germany has rejected Turkey’s request for “mutual judicial assistance” to take testimony of Ferhat Tunç on the ground that it is against freedom of expression. Standing trial for “insulting the President”, Tunç now faces a warrant for his detention in Turkey.

HDP has released a statement about the armed attack on Kurdish workers in Afyon: “The antagonistic policies of the government against Kurdish people and its mindset breeding a lynch culture in society lead to this picture that we have today.”

Referring to the pandemic, the Governor’s Office has banned all types of meetings, marches, concerts and conferences in Dersim, except for the ones approved by the Governor’s Office and held “according to traditions and customs.”

Arriving in the scene of the incident, Turkish Red Crescent Chair Kerem Kınık has indicated that the assaulters will be caught in the shortest possible time.

In an armed attack targeting Kurdish workers from Turkey’s eastern province of Van, worker Özkan T. has lost his life and workers Fırat T. and Emrah Ö. have been wounded in Turkey’s Aegean province of Afyon.

According to the justice statistics of the Justice Ministry, 12 thousand 298 people stood trial and 3 thousand 831 people were penalized in 2019 on the grounds that they insulted President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Akman has been on a death fast, demanding conditions of execution be improved in such a way to adapt to humane conditions.

At least 143 people, including five children, were subjected to torture and 63 people were subjected to physical and psychological violence in prisons, according to the report.

İhlas News Agency (İHA) reporter Murat Başal and Demirören News Agency (DHA) reporter Emrah Kızıl have been subjected to a knife attack during news follow-up in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır.