Academics İnci Özkan Kerestecioğlu and Biriz Berksoy have been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison. The court board of the İstanbul 36th Heavy Penal Court has ruled that the announcement of all three verdicts shall be deferred.

The claims that Turkey processes olive taken from Syria's Afrin and sells it to the EU countries have been brought into the parliament of Switzerland.

Speaking to bianet about the judicial process of Atilla Taş, Prof. Dr. Akdeniz has stated that they submitted a request for his release, emphasizing that a verdict of release on probation can be given for Taş since he has less than a year to serve in prison.

HDP MP Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the courts' and high courts' use of judicial discretion in favor of men in cases related to male violence.

AKP’s Metropolitan Mayor candidate for İzmir, who defended his statement “İzmir is the most beautiful girl in neighborhood” by saying, “I didn’t call it a woman, but a girl”, has called himself “Farhad” and İzmir “Shirin”, referring to a love story from the 12th century.

Three freedom of expression organizations have penned a letter and launched a petition for Metin Türfent, who has been imprisoned for 1,000 days. “We tell you that you are not alone,” the letter said.

Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras will start his two-day official visit to Turkey today. Tsipras, who will also visit the Halki Seminary in Heybeliada, will be the first Prime Minister of the country who has paid a visit to the seminary.

HDP Ağrı MP Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir has submitted a parliamentary inquiry, requesting that a parliamentary investigation be launched into the allegations of battery and maltreatment as well as poor quality of water and epidemics in Patnos Prison.

HDP MP Danış Beştaş has submitted an application to Human Rights Commission of Parliament for 85-year-old ill prisoner Sise Bingöl. In a medical report previously issued for her, it was stated that “she doesn’t know her age, where she is or what year it is.”

The Platform for Libertarian Lawyers (ÖHP) has announced its report regarding the hunger strikes in prisons. The report stated that a hunger strike is not a way of suicide but protesting and that the inmates' rights to health and life are violated.

Diyarbakır MP Remziye Tosun, reminding the killed child workers Berivan Karakeçili and İbrahim Halil Oruç, has brought the topics of child labor and seasonal agricultural labor into the parliamentary agenda.

Amnesty International Turkey has launched a campaign and demanded that the street in front of the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in İstanbul, where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, be renamed after the deceased journalist.

At the hearing of Merve Önem, who is being tried for participating in the Gezi protests, the presiding judge has asked the anonymous witness "whether she/he has anything to say about Önem."

According to the 2018 Media Monitoring Report released by the Kaos GL Association, all of the news reports and articles published on Yeni Akit newspaper about the LGBTI+ individuals have violated their fundamental rights.

According to a report released by the Laborers’ Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly, at least 155 workers, including 10 children and 11 women, have lost their lives in occupational homicides across Turkey in the first month of 2019.

The Turkish Statistical Institution has announced the inflation figures for January 2019. While the consumer inflation has increased by 1.06 percent in comparison with previous month, it has increased by 20.35 percent in comparison with January 2018.

President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, "Even with your enemies, you should not break ties completely. You might need that tie one day."

And indeed, it is those deeds that need to be defended, those acts that were carried out in accordance with the existing policies of the government, not me saying “Do not do this, solve the problems without resorting to violence.”

Thomas Hammarberg, a parliamentarian from Sweden who previously received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Amnesty International, has nominated HDP’s former imprisoned Co-Chair Selahattin Dermirtaş for the prize in 2019.

"The ECtHR requested a defense from the Ministry of Justice. After the time expired on January 10, 2018, we learned that the Ministry of Justice got additional time from the ECtHR."