Speaking about the ECtHR’s judgement on Demirtaş, President Erdoğan has said, “Judgements of ECtHR are no concern of ours.” The court has ruled that if Turkey does not abide by its judgement, it will breach the Convention.

The European Court of Human Rights has pronounced its judgment regarding HDP’s former imprisoned Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş’s application. The court has ruled that all necessary measures shall be adopted to put an end to his pre-trial detention.

Cansu Şekerci from the CİSST has spoken about children staying in prison with their mothers: “It is forbidden to have toys in wards. Children are away from not only nature and social life but games as well.” Child inmates can also be held together with adults.

It has been alleged that M.Ç., who was doing his mandatory military service in Afyon, shot himself to death while standing guard.

In the 29th year of the adoption of Convention on the Rights of the Child, 15 thousand children die of preventable diseases a day, 155 million children are malnourished and one out of every five children cannot go to school across the world.

Court has ruled that police officer Kuş, who caused the death of Abdullah Cömert in Gezi resistance and was previously given a 13-year prison sentence before being reversed by the Supreme Court, shall be sentenced to 6 years, 10 months and 15 days in prison.

CHP İstanbul MP Ali Şeker has announced the answers given by the Ministry of Health to his questions regarding child motherhood. Şeker has stated, “More than 40 children have been forced to become mothers a day across Turkey.”

Ministry of Justice has published a circular letter regarding the offences committed against sexual inviolability of children and women, emphasizing that the procedural acts should be meticulously performed in the event of such offences.

Men killed at least 20 women, two children in October. 20 percent of the women were killed because they rejected proposals of reconciliation. 75 percent of murders were committed in houses. Two of the deceased women were from Uzbekistan and Syria.

Çiğdem Mater, Ayşegül Güzel and Yusuf Cıvır, who were detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights defenders on November 16, have been released. Civil society expert Yiğit Aksakoğlu has been arrested.

Prof. Dr. Betül Tanbay, who was previously detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights advocates, has been released after giving her deposition. Seven people have still been in custody.

Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı, Asena Günal and Bora Sarı, who were among the 13 academics and rights advocates taken into custody earlier today, have been released after their depositions. Meltem Aslan has also been released afterwards.

“Taking away academics and intellectuals, who have not even had a slightest engagement with violence and crime throughout their lives, intervening in the course of their lives, can by no means be normalized nor accepted.”

One soldier has lost his life in an explosion that occurred during a mortar fire in the district of Uludere in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak. Four soldiers have been wounded, one of whom in serious condition.

38 of the 74 people, who were taken into custody as part of an operation conducted in the provinces of Diyarbakır, Hakkari and Elazığ, have been arrested.

Human Rights Association has released a written statement, emphasizing that they condemn the operations launched against academics and civil society representatives.

İstanbul Security Directorate has released a written statement and announced the reason for the detention of academics and civil society representatives.

Academics Turgut Tarhanlı and Betül Tanbay and Çiğdem Mater, Meltem Aslan, Ali Hakan Altınay, Yiğit Ekmekçi, Bora Sarı, Ayşegül Güzel, Filiz Telek and Yiğit Aksakoğlu have been taken into custody as part of the operation.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu slammed the Saudi narrative of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that the journalist was killed due to brawling and overdose drugging. Çavuşoğlu insisted that the suspects should be tried in Turkey.

PEN Turkey Center has held a press conference on the occasion of November 15 International Day of the Imprisoned Writers to attract attention to the imprisonment and difficult conditions of writers arrested for writing in Turkey and across the world.