President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has indicated that “alternative financial transactions are becoming more widespread in the world” and added, “We will take bold and determined steps in terms of alternative finance in the forthcoming period.”

Diyarbakır 11th Heavy Penal Court has ruled for the acquittal of three academics and İstanbul 28th Heavy Penal Court has ruled for the acquittal of five Academics for Peace signatory to the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”.

Writer and drawer Ahmet Bilge, who has been behind bars for 26 years, has shared 10 of his drawings with bianet.

The Ministry of Justice has answered the Parliamentary question of CHP MP Utku Çakırözer about the arrested journalists. “The data as detailed as requested require a separate or special study or research”, the Ministry has stated.

Of the killed workers, 14 were children, 12 were women and 11 were immigrants. The total number of occupational homicides this yeart was 1,174.

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against HDP Diyarbakır Provincial and District executives about the families staging a sit-in protest in front of HDP office for their missing children.

His family is surprised that 59-year prison sentence of arrested student Korkmaz has been upheld. His sister has said, “We thought that his prison sentence would not be upheld, we were hopeful” and asked, “Where is this judicial reform, then?”

Kaftancıoğlu, who has been on trial for her social media posts, was charged with several offenses including "insulting President Erdoğan" and "terrorist propaganda".

MPs from the CHP and the HDP have brought the claims that İlhami Ballı, a defendant in the trial of the Ankara Massacre in 2015, stayed in a hotel in Ankara while he was sought with red notice into the parliamentary agenda.

Justice Minister Gül has said that the amendments in the Judicial Reform Strategy Document are being prepared in different packages.

Two workers fell and lost their lives at a bulding under construction in İzmir. Speaking to bianet about the occupational homicide, construction worker Kalın said, "They began working that day. We didn't even know their names properly."

Academic Özlem Şendeniz has been acquitted after the Constitutional court ruled in July that the sentences violate the academics' freedom of expression.