CHP MP Utku Çakırözer has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the SETA report on journalists. “Is it the SETA’s duty to lay the groundwork for prospective investigations against journalists that it is exempt from taxes?”, he has asked.

Professional journalism organizations held a joint press conference to denounce the SETA report on journalists. “If anything happens to a single colleague of ours, the SETA is to blame for”, the organizations have stated.

The girl who was detained with his family has been released with a ban on leaving the country.

Arrested due to the statement of an anonymous witness, journalist Ferhat Parlak has been released on probation after the anonymous witness changed his previous statement.

The Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) has filed a criminal complaint against the SETA report on journalists working in international media outlets on a series of charges including “inciting the public to enmity and hatred.”

Urfa Bar Association Chairperson has spoken to bianet after visiting the child: "When I visited her, she was anxious and scared. She took medicine from doctor to sleep."

"This document poses a serious threat to freedom of press and freedom of expression in Turkey," said the Journalists Union of Turkey.

Accompanying protesters in Taksim and marching side by side with them at demonstrations, street dog Eylem was hit by a car and has lost its life. It was the protesters who named the dog Eylem, which means demonstration in English.

On this day last year, 25 people, including seven children, lost their lives and 340 people injured in a train derailment in Çorlu, Tekirdağ.

Journalists' Union of Turkey and Media and Law Studies Association have announced that they will file a criminal complaint against the SETA report on journalists working in international media outlets. The Foundation has claimed, “It is a scientific study.”

Individual applications by Academics for Peace who were given prison terms have been sent to the General Assembly of The Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, the courts began to postpone ongoing trials to wait for the top court verdict.

The Patriarch Sub-governor who will lead the election process of a new Armenian Patriarch of Turkey has been elected. HDP MP Paylan has spoken to bianet about the election of Episcopos Maşlayan as Patriarch Sub-governor and their further demands.

Releasing a statement on human rights in Turkey, the Delegation of the EU to the Council of Europe (EUDEL) has criticized the state’s attitude in Gezi trial and made a call to implement the the Judicial Reform Strategy with determined and concrete steps.

In the final hearing of Aladağ dorm fire case, which claimed the lives of 11 children in 2016, all dorm executives have been sentenced to prison. Public officials have been acquitted for “causing death”, but penalized for “misconduct in office.”

The HDP Women’s Parliamentary Group has requested that a Parliamentary inquiry be launched against irregularities and impunity in the investigation and prosecution of suspicious deaths, especially that of Rabia Naz and other children.

The ones massacred in Madımak Hotel in Sivas 26 years ago today have been commemorated in a ceremony in Sivas. Şenal Sarıhan, one of the attorneys of Sivas case, has spoken to bianet regarding the commemoration.

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) has announced that at least 369 official curfews have been declared in at least 11 provinces and 51 districts since August 16, 2015. The highest number of curfews have been declared in Diyarbakır.

The International Refugee Rights Association has denounced the lynch attempt against Syrians living in the İkitelli Neighborhood in Küçükçekmece, İstanbul after a shop owner alleged that “his daughter was harassed by someone.”

The Association for Science, Art, Education, Research and Solidarity (BirAraDa) has organized a postcard workshop in solidarity with imprisoned Academics for Peace Füsun Üstel and Tuna Altınel, who have been behind bars for over 50 days.

We are publishing the full English version of Yiğit Aksakoğlu's statement of defense that he presented in his first hearing on June 24, 2019. Arrested for over 220 days, Aksakoğlu was released on probation with an international travel ban on June 25.