Prof. Dr. Korur-Fincancı has given her last lesson before her mandatory retirement. In her lesson “Human Rights and Responsibility of the Physician”, she has said, “Medicine is the epitome of politics because we get involved in life.”

The unemployment rate among young adults (age 15-24) has been gradually increasing in Turkey. In fact, there are only two countries in Europe, whose youth unemployment rates are constantly rising: Iceland and Turkey.

Following the Day of the Endangered Lawyer's dedication to the lawyers in Turkey, main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question, asking how many attorneys are arrested because of the defenses they raised.

Giving its judgement regarding two teachers, who were given a disciplinary punishment for attending a march demanding mother tongue based education, Constitutional Court has ruled that their right to assembly and demonstration has been violated.

A child worker, who was working in a cotton field in Urfa, has fallen into an agricultural machine and lost his life. The figures shared by the İSİG Assembly have shown that at least 67 child laborers lost their lives in occupational homicides in 2018.

Hearings of five academics have been held in three courts. The Presiding Judge of the 25th Heavy Penal Court asked an academic, “Who will make peace? Whom are you calling for peace?”

The Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), which monitored over 90 court sessions in 71 trials with the International Press Institute (IPI) in the second half of 2018, has released its “Justice Monitoring Report: Freedom of Expression Trials in Turkey”.

An investigation has been opened against lawyer Karavelioğlu because he said, “The son-in-law speaks, the dollar rises” in a tweet. Saying that he did not make a financial gain and hence the crime has not occurred, Karavelioğlu added, “There are no lies in what I said.”

Speaking to bianet about the hunger strike of imprisoned HDP MP Leyla Güven, Human Rights Association Diyarbakır Branch Chair Zeytun and Diyarbakır Medical Chamber Chair Demir have stated that her condition has reached a critical point.

Supreme Election Council Chair Güven, speaking on the claims regarding imaginary voters, has said that 56,496 voters' registrations were suspended because of not residing in dwellings where they were previously registered.

The TCK 103 Women’s Platform has released a statement regarding the motion foreseeing impunity for sexual abuse offences when the abuser and the child get married: “This motion aims to legitimize child abuse by absolving sexual abuse offences.”

In the Özgür Gündem case, where Hüseyin Aykol, Eren Keskin, Reyhan Çapan and Hasan Başak have been tried, the court board has ruled that the request for the combination of Özgür Gündem case files shall be evaluated in the next hearing.

A collective agreement has been signed between the İzmir Suburban Systems (İZBAN) management and the union. İZBAN workers’ strike was previously postponed by a presidential decree.

While the court of appeal has upheld the aggravated life imprisonment given to Nezir Türkoğlu, who killed his 10-year-old son, it has reduced the prison sentence of 35 years and 9 months given to him on four other charges to 10 years and 9 months.

Bringing the male violence towards women into parliamentary agenda, HDP Diyarbakır MP Semra Güzel has asked Minister of Labor, Social Services and Family Selçuk, “What is the justification for the confidentiality orders imposed on case files of femicides?”

Musicians Gökçek and Varan have been released by the court in the case of Grup Yorum. Eight members of the band are still arrested, six of them are in the wanted terrorists list.

The State of Emergency Report, which was prepared based on interviews with 3,376 participants, has emphasized that not the supremacy of law, but “the law of the supreme” has been prevailing in Turkey for the last two years.

The European law organizations have dedicated the January 24 Day of the Endangered Lawyer to the lawyers in Turkey.

The date of the transfer from İstanbul Atatürk Airport to the 3rd Airport has been updated. The transfer will begin on March 1 and take 45 hours.

HDP MP Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit has made an application to the Human Rights Inquiry Committee of the parliament, demanding that the İmralı Prison, where PKK leader Öcalan resides, be investigated by a delegation.