The Prosecutor's Office has considered the newspaper's article containing discriminatory expressions within freedom of expression.

The court has rejected the lawsuit against the Mersin Governorship's ban on 2019 Pride Week, reiterating the same grounds such as “public peace”, “prevention of crimes”, “public health” and “public morality”.

Hakkı Eren and Mert Soydan were released on probation after being detained over hanging a banner.

Speaking about the seizure of municipality’s bank accounts, Dersim Mayor Maçoğlu has said, “The article 15 of the municipal law openly stipulates that the taxes, fees and provincial bank shares of municipalities cannot be confiscated.”

Affiliated with the Metropolitan Municipality of İstanbul, the İstanbul Arts and Vocational Training Center (İSMEK) has started accepting applications for Kurdish lessons. In early December, the Municipality announced that it would hire two Kurdish instructors.

HRW has released its World Report 2020, where it reviews human rights issues in more than 100 countries.

Several publishing houses and bookstores have shared messages of support for “Leylan”, the first novel penned by HDP’s imprisoned former Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş.

Akile Salih, the Chair of Libya’s Haftar-allied House of Representatives in Tobruk, has announced that “the ceasefire is over, the war will continue.”

The ruling party had announced that around 100 mayors from the opposition parties would join them.

As the local court removed the access block to Wikipedia in compliance with the Constitutional Court verdict of right violation, Wikipedia has been reopened by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) after two years and eight months.

Arrested for allegedly "aiding and abetting a terrorist organization" on January 10, Aho (Sefer) Bileçen, the priest of Mor Yakup Church in Mardin, has been released as the court has ruled for his release upon the objection of his attorneys.

Kurkut was shot dead by the police during Newroz celebrations in 2017. While an earlier report said he was directly shot, the new report states the bullet "bounced from a hard ground."