After Boeing 737 Max type aircraft which took off from Turkey have been diverted back in mid-air, Turkish Airlines (THY) has suspended the flight operations of 12 Boeing 737 Max planes in its fleet along with several other countries.

Releasing a joint statement, 19 rights groups and bar associations have said that civil society figures Kavala and Aksakoğlu's arrest over the Gezi Park protests "has become a punishment that is at stark odds with international human rights law and standards."

While Takanay, Bartu Candan and Korkmaz have been sentenced to 15 months in prison, Erden has been sentenced to 18 months. The sentence of Takanay has been deferred on 2-year probation. The announcement of other verdicts has been suspended.

Announcing its judgement on Gürbüz, the ECtHR has indicated, “The number of prosecutions and the length of proceedings could be regarded as a form of harassment such as to intimidate journalists and discourage them from publishing articles.”

The Amnesty International has launched an urgent action campaign for Osman Kavala, Yiğit Aksakoğlu and 14 other rights defenders: "The indictment attempts to rewrite the history of the Gezi Park protests and silence some of Turkey's most prominent civil society figures."

The 88th hearing of the case filed against the public officers accused of negligence in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink starts today. Meeting in front of the İstanbul Courthouse before the hearing, Hrant’s Friends have repeated their demand for justice.

HDP MP Ayşe Başaran has made a statement on the hunger strikes in prisons, saying that the inmates are having difficulties accessing vitamin B.

Speaking in an election rally in Hakkari, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has stated that there were CHP and HDP behind the women, whom he accused of whistling during the call to prayer in the 17th Feminist Night March in Taksim on March 8.

The Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey has declared mourning until Easter for 84th Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan, who lost his life on Friday.

Berkin Elvan, who was shot with a tear gas canister during Gezi Resistance and lost his life at the age of 15 on March 11, 2014, has been commemorated at his grave in the Feriköy Cemetery in İstanbul.

It was us who lived Gezi, and we know this well: Gezi is this land’s hope for equality, freedom and justice.

The Taksim Solidarity has held a press conference on the 657-page Gezi Park indictment that charges rights defenders with life imprisonment.

President and AKP Chair Erdoğan’s allegation that the women attending the March 8 feminist night march in Taksim “whistled the call to player” has also been criticized by columnists close to the AKP as well as its İstanbul MP Mustafa Yeneroğlu.

HDP Van MP Muazzez Orhan has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the digital materials which were confiscated from the detained and which have either not been returned to their owners or have been returned after a long period of time.

According to a report by the Greenpeace, coal-fired thermal power plants have caused 17 thousand premature deaths in 33 years, in Afşin, Maraş province. Activists reflected the message, "This chimney spreads toxins," on a power plant's chimney.

İlknur Üstün from the Women’s Coalition platform has stated that local administrations are shaped through the struggles of male governments.

After President and AKP Chair Erdoğan alleged that the women attending the 17th Feminist Night March in Taksim “behaved rudely towards the call to prayer by whistling”, his allegation has made the headlines of pro-government newspapers.

Cenk Yiğiter, an academic dismissed because of having signed the Peace Declaration, has won the lawsuit he filed against the Ankara University Rectorate, which prevented him from enrolling at the school.

After President Erdoğan claimed that “women whistled the call to prayer on March 8”, Grey Wolves gathered in Tepebaşı while another group attempted to march to HDP İstanbul Office, shouting, “May the hands reaching out for call to prayer be broken.”

ZDF's İstanbul chief Jörg Brase and Tagesspiegel's Turkey reporter Thomas Seibert have left Turkey. Germany has updated its travel warning to Turkey after Minister of Interior Soylu's statements.