Nazan Bozkurt, who has been staging a protest in the capital Ankara to be reinstated to her job, has said that a woman police officer bit her leg.

Facing up to 20 years in prison due to her journalistic activities and social media posts, JinNews reporter Kibriye Evren has been released in her eighth hearing. The court has imposed judicial control measures and international travel ban on Evren.

Health expenditures was 165 billion 234 million lira last year, increasing 17.5 percent from 2017.

Lawyer Mustafa Vefa, a member of the Urfa Bar Association Human Rights Commission, has stated that inmate Abdürrahim Durgun was battered by four prison wardens in a room without any surveillance cameras.

The Federation of Syriac Associations chairperson and two minority MPs have reacted to the recreational facility project in Dargeçit, Mardin.

Announcing its ruling on a libel suit filed by one journalist against another, the Constitutional Court has concluded that “freedom of expression should be interpreted so broadly to allow exaggeration and even provocation to a degree.”

In the wake of rising tension between Turkey and US over Turkey’s “Operation Peace Spring” and Trump’s letter, President Erdoğan has set out for Washington. Speaking ahead of his visit, he said, “We are making the visit in a troubled period.”

While 486 academics have been acquitted so far, some local courts do not abide by the top court ruling, the Academics for Peace has stated.

Four students have been detained after hanging a banner at Demirören Shopping Mall in İstanbul. The students are charged with “terror propaganda” for their banner which read, “The system of the AKP kills, the media of the boss hides the truths.”

Journalist Ruken Demir, a reporter for the Mezopotamya Agency, has been taken into custody in a raid conducted to her house in early morning hours today.

European Council has adopted a framework “for restrictive measures in response to Turkey’s unauthorized drilling activities in Eastern Mediterranean”, which is likely to impose sanctions on “individuals and entities responsible or involved".

Taken into custody on charges of “membership of a terrorist organization” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”, İpekyolu District Co-Mayors Azim Yacan and Şehzade Kurt have been arrested.

Contributed to Turkey's new constitution after the 1960 coup, Soysal was jailed after the 1971 coup.

Responding to President Erdoğan’s criticisms of “not sod-cutting ceremony” held for a biological purification facility, İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu has said, “Preventing a wrong investment of 1.6 million, we will make the right investments at rights points."

Speaking on the occasion of “National Forestation Day” in Ankara, President Erdoğan has said, “In the past, some people attempted to pillage our cities under the pretext of trees. And, here we are, doing afforestation.”

Giving an interview to Russia Today after a year, President of Syria Bashar al Assad has spoken about a series of issues such as the civil war in Syria, Turkey’s operation into northern part of the country and the death of ISIS leader Baghdadi.

"Turkey will extradite them no matter what," the spokesperson of the Interior Ministry has said, while Greece denied the entry of an extraidet ISIS member, who is left in the buffer zone between the two countries.

"This is a violation of the right to life. The person does not have the conditions to live in prison alone," his attorney has said.

Sending a letter from prison, dismissed and recently arrested Metropolitan Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı has said, “Justice does not go beyond being a word that adorns the walls of the courts in this country.”

Main opposition CHP MP Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi has announced that according to Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) figures, the number of unemployed has increased to 3 million 509 thousand 603, reaching an all time high.