1,273 people have expressed their support for arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal on a death fast for their right to a fair trial: “We declare that we will keep working for a fair re-trial of the appealed files of Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal.”

Six rights organizations under the roof of Human Rights Joint Platform have condemned the recent threats against Rakel Dink and Hrant Dink Foundation. “The background of these threats needs to be brought into light," the statement has noted.

After Grup Yorum music band announced that they received a permission to hold a concert in Yenikapı for the first time after years, the Governor’s Office of İstanbul has stated that no permission for concerts has been given to the group.

E.B. was detained in İstanbul after the foundation announced that it received a second threat message.

Killed by a police bullet during Gezi protests in the capital city of Ankara in 2013, Ethem Sarısülük has been commemorated at Güvenpark. The statement for the press could be held following police intervention.

Taken into custody as part of an investigation launched by the Ankara Western Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into the killing of 20-year-old Barış Çakan, three people have been arrested by the Penal Judgeship of Peace on Duty.

Fethiye Çetin, an attorney of Hrant Dink Foundation, says that the threatening messages sent to the foundation and Rakel Dink are similar to those sent before the assassination of Hrant Dink: “It is not an isolated incident, as indicated by authorities.”

Contrary to initial reports, the Governor's Office and Barış Çakan's father stated that he was killed after a dispute on the call to prayer.

Intellectuals, writers, artists, activists and politicians have condemned the threats targeting Hrant Dink Foundation. “We never accept a mentality that 'raises a murderer from a baby' or a system that is dominated by such a mentality,” the statement has read.

Attacked by three people in the capital city of Ankara, 20-year-old Barış Çakan has been stabbed to death in the chest. His family says that Çakan was attacked because he was listening to Kurdish music.

Nine NGOs have released a joint statement regarding the death threats targeting Hrant Dink Foundation: "We experienced similar situations in the past. The paths that led to the assassination of Hrant Dink were paved by the same language of hatred."

Rakel Dink, the wife of the late journalist, and attorneys of the foundation are threatened with death, the foundation has stated.