On a death fast for 223 days, Mustafa Koçak has sent a letter from prison. “I am a tree, too… What I want you to do is to finally see how that tree walks day by day and how hope pours wherever it touches”, Koçak says.

The Governorship of Van has announced that all events and demonstrations have been banned in the province for a period of 15 days until February 22.

The prosecutor has announced his opinion as to the accusations in the trial of the 2013 Gezi Park protests.

Yoleri was detained by the police over a speech she made at the meeting of the Saturday Mothers/People.

Having stood trial over a tweet criticizing the state-run agency over its reporting of the presidential elections in June 2018, O.P. has been acquitted in the first hearing.

Announcing its ruling in the application of former Antalya Metropolitan Mayor Mustafa Akaydın, the Constitutional Court has concluded that paying damages over his remarks about Erdoğan does not violate his freedom of expression.

Arrested in Kandıra Type F Prison, former HDP Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ says that she has started playing a musical instrument in prison: “I make no claim in arts, my days in prison are turning into a lively and smooth life.”

Prof. Köksal Bayraktar, the attorney of the only arrested defendant of Gezi trial Osman Kavala, has spoken to bianet about the Constitutional Court verdict of “Local courts cannot dispute the authority of Constitutional Court.”

Balıkçı was shot dead on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2011 during compulsory military service.

Edibe Özçelik fell ill during a police raid in her house. Later it was revealed she was having a heart attack. Her son said that the police did not let them bring her to the hospital for a long period of time.

Currently held in Diyarbakır Prison, 85-year-old ill inmate Özkan cannot meet his personal needs on his own. Speaking to bianet, his attorney calls on Erdoğan to remove his prison sentence so that Özkan can spend the last days of his life at his home.

Remzi Diril, the priest of the İstanbul Chaldean Church, has said that the search for his parents is continuing.

A lawsuit has been filed against a doctor who is accused of telling a patient, “Alevis have belly dancers dance in djemevis. They drink wine, these are houses of revelry. What kind of religion is that? They are all terrorists. Berkin Elvan is also a terrorist.”

Social Memory Platform has released a written statement about the pardon granted to the convict of Sivas Massacre by President Erdoğan. “No matter who forgives murderers, we will not forgive them”, the Platform has said.

Khidher Domle from the Women and Children Support Office speaks about the problems facing the Êzidî community, the plight of children born of sexual assault, mothers’ rights and the women’s solidarity movement.

Thirty students of Boğaziçi University stood trial for having opened a banner that read, "Invasion, massacre cannot be marked with delight" in protest of a group of students giving out Turkish delight at the campus with respect to Turkey's military operation in Syria's Afrin.

Arrested on November 15, 2019, journalist Melike Aydın has been released. A reporter for the JinNews website, Aydın was arrested with journalist Ruken Demir.

Leyla, 28, is staying at a women’s refuge in Sulaymaniyah. When she left her son in an orphanage, she did not know that he would be registered as a Muslim and given up for adoption within a week.

More than 50 countries have made recommendations and criticism about the pressure on journalists and rights defenders in Turkey.

The annual report issued by the Initiative for Freedom of Expression covers the violations of rights committed in Turkey throughout 2019.