After Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced that Turkey has started natural gas exploration activities in western Cyprus, the US Department of State has released a written statement: “We urge Turkish authorities to halt these operations.”

Lawyers from the Law Bureau of This Age (Asrın Hukuk Bürosu) have announced that they had a meeting with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on May 2. The lawyers will make a statement for the press today at 3 p.m. local time in Turkey.

Seven workers who were dismissed from İzmir TARİŞ factory for unionizing and labor union executives who protested the dismissals have been each sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison on charge of “deprivation of liberty.”

The 2018 updates of the "Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) Project" by bianet and Reporters Without Borders Germany have been completed. Findings show that transparency in ownership and political affiliations has deteriorated in the last three years.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has ruled that the local elections shall be cancelled and repeat elections shall be held in İstanbul, where CHP’s Ekrem İmamoğlu was elected the Metropolitan Mayor according to unofficial local election results.

The Diyarbakır-based Socio-Political Field Research Center has conducted face-to-face interviews with the members of 120 households who had to leave Suriçi. The displaced people are faced with unemployment, poverty and psychological problems.

State-run Anadolu Agency has alleged that 43 balloting committee chairs and members investigated in relation with İstanbul local elections have links with the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which is held responsible for July 15 coup attempt.

The Journalists Union of Turkey has released its "Press Freedom Report" on the occasion of the May 3 World Press Freedom Day.

Announcing its verdict on the individual applications of journalists Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Ali Bulaç, the Constitutional Court has ruled that there is no violation of rights in arrest of Ilıcak and Altan. The court has accepted the application of Bulaç.

The Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform has released its four-month report on the occasion of May 3 World Press Freedom Day. The report has shown that 14 women journalists are behind bars and 12 jailed journalists are on a hunger strike.

On the occasion of May 3 World Press Freedom Day, Amnesty International Turkey has launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #NeHaberGazeteci (How is it going, journalist?). Imprisoned journalists have also answered from prison.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the inflation rates. While the inflation rate in April increased by 1.69 percent compared to the previous month, the yearly inflation rate became 19.50 percent.

Journalists lose their jobs due to media organizations changing hands or editorial positions. 10 journalists/media representatives face life sentences aggravated for 10 times as per the Turkish Penal Code or the Anti-Terror Law.

While the Constitutional Court has ruled that the arrest of Akın Atalay, Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık, Önder Çelik and Bülent Utku is not violation of rights, it has ruled that the arrest of Kadri Gürsel and Murat Aksoy has violated their rights.

While one academic has been given a deferred prison sentence of 15 months for “terror propaganda”, another academic has been sentenced to 2 years, 1 month in prison for “aiding a terrorist organization” without deferment of the verdict.

Turkey's import of plastic waste has been put on the parliamentary agenda.

Police officer Ö.Y., who was driving the armored vehicle that caused the death of six- and seven-year-old Yıldırım brothers in Şırnak, and his superior M.M., who gave the order to Ö.Y., had their eight hearing at the Cizre 2nd Heavy Penal Court.

The court has rejected Ataman's appeal on the ground that there is not a violation of his rights.

The President has made remarks on the economy and birth control: "Some circus acrobats are in efforts to create a psychologically negative atmosphere by making ingenuine statements"

16 people have been detained in “a social media operation” in Bursa.