While Tuna Kuyucu and İlker Birbil have been given deferred prison sentences of 15 months by the 27th Heavy Penal Court, Taylan Tarhan has been sentenced to 18 months and Nevin Zeynep Yelçe has been sentenced to 2 years, 6 months by the same court.

In the second hearing of the 3rd Airport workers case, the court has lifted the judicial control measures which were previously imposed on 30 workers who were released on probation in their first hearing on December 5, 2018.

The feast of Purim is a religious holiday that commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people from Persian King Achashverosh’s vizier Haman, who was planning to kill all the Jews. Purim begins tonight and continues through March 21.

The Governorship of Hakkari has announced that 31 places in the city center of Hakkari and its districts of Yüksekova, Çukurca, Şemdinli and Derecik have been declared as ‘special security zones’ from March 20 to April 4, 2019.

Imprisoned journalist and writer Ahmet Altan has been sentenced to pay a judicial fine of 7 thousand Turkish Lira on the ground that he insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with an article that he penned in 2016.

Former Managing Editor of Evrensel Newspaper Sarı, against whom Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of the time Berat Albayrak and his brother Serhat Albayrak filed a lawsuit of insult and libel for reporting on Paradise Papers, has been acquitted.

PhD student Nevim Borçin from Boğaziçi University and Dr. Lecturer Canay Şahin from Yıldız Technical University have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The pronouncement of both verdicts has been suspended.

In the hearing of the Boğaziçi University students who are charged with "terrorist propaganda" for having opened a banner about the Afrin operation that say, "Invasion, massacre cannot be marked with Turkish delight," the court has rejected the request of a witness to be heard.

The research of “How Much Do We Know About Children Under Risk?” has shown that though the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been heard by most people, its content has been largely unknown though it has been 30 years since it was signed.

Ill prisoner Gezen, who was on a hunger strike in Tekirdağ Prison, took his life. His deceased body has been hastily taken to Diyarbakır and laid to rest there in company of police. HDP İstanbul Organization has made a statement regarding the incident.

Armenian Patriarch of Turkey Mesrob II Mutafyan, who lost his life in Surp Pırgiç Hospital on March 8, has been laid to rest in Şişli Armenian Cemetery after a funeral ceremony held in the Holy Mother of God Patriarchal Church in Kumkapı, İstanbul.

Rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala, who is being charged with an aggravated life sentence for organizing the 2013 Gezi Park protests, has released a statement on the 500th day of his arrest.