Members of European Parliament from various parties and political groups have addressed an open letter to President Erdoğan: “We urge you to end repression against members of the HDP and CHP and accept the results of local elections”.

A Pentagon spokesperson refuted the New York Times report that said the US will send 150 troops for joint patrols with the Turkish Armed Forces.

The report by the Hrant Dink Foundation found 6,517 hate speech items against 98 groups in 2018.

Making a statement for the press about the request for his discharge from the ruling AKP, former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated, “The AK Party no longer has the opportunity to be a remedy for the problems of our country.”

Releasing a statement about the attack in Diyarbakır, HDP Co-Chairs have stated, “We demand that the authorities find the responsible. The detention of our district chair is the first indication that they are after a perception operation, not a serious investigation.”

HDP Kulp District Chair and Civil Works Director of Kulp Municipality have been taken into custody as part of the investigation launched into the explosion that claimed the lives of seven people and wounded 10 others in Kulp, Diyarbakır.

In the last three years, at least 19 people, including children, have been killed after being hit by armored vehicles in Kurdish-majority provinces in the east and southeast.

Seven people have lost their lives and at least 10 people have been wounded in an explosion in the district of Kulp in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

Commenting on the verdict of right violation given by the Constitutional Court for the police violence on May Day in 2009, attorney Eyüboğlu has criticized that the ruling has failed to address the use of chemical gas during the intervention.

The court has ruled that execution of the sentences of seven former Cumhuriyet columnists shall be suspended and they shall be released.

While the prosecutor requested academic Akyüz be sentenced to prison, the court has acquitted her. A total of 106 academics have been acquitted so far.

Arrested in Silivri Prison for the past 14 months, lawyer Can Tombul from the Law Bureau of the Oppressed (EHB) has been released with an international travel ban.

Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) Co-Director lawyer Veysel Ok and journalist Cihan Acar, a reporter for the closed Özgür Düşünce, have been each sentenced to 5 months in prison for “degrading the judicial bodies of the state”.

The Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee has reduced the policy rate from 19.75 percent to 16.50 percent.

Education Union (Eğitim-Sen) Chair Feray Aytekin - Aydoğan has indicated that the Ministry of National Education has made a last-minute change in its “Regulation on Social Activities” and omitted gender equality from its objectives.

Charged with insulting the President for making an “acrostic defense” in the hearing of the case filed on the same charge, journalist Barış İnce has been sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison. The announcement of the verdict has been deferred.

Concluding the application of the family of T.Y., who lost an eye because of a hand grenade explosion in the Operation Return to Life, the Constitutional Court has ruled that the right to life is violated and a retrial shall be held.

After her article criticizing the prison sentence given to CHP İstanbul Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu for her social media posts has been censored, columnist Özlem Albayrak has resigned from the pro-government daily Yeni Şafak.

Facing up to 22.5 years in prison on charge of “establishing and leading an armed terrorist organization”, journalists Ayşegül Doğan and Yusuf Karataş’s hearings have been adjourned to December 25 in five-minute hearings.

Turkey and the US are "not totally on the same page" despite an agreement to establish a safe zone in northern Syria, according to officials from Ankara.