AKP Chair and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has addressed the main opposition party CHP in following words: “We have to give them the necessary lesson at the judiciary; in fact, we will do it. First, compensation; then, sentence...”

The bill that extends Supreme Election Council members' tenures and includes many changes regarding issues such as traffic fines and unlicensed waterfront buildings on the Bosphorus has been passed by the parliament.

The Minimum Wage Determining Commission has met for the last time to determine the minimum wages for 2019. The net minimum wage has been announced as 2,020 Turkish Liras (~380 USD).

Over 700 women from more than 30 cities in Turkey will come together in İstanbul on the occasion of Women’s Meeting of Turkey, which will be held on January 5-6, 2019.

Christmas ceremony has been held at the Saint Antoine Church in İstanbul. High Priest Julian Pista said that they welcome high attendance and people from every background.

Max Zirngast, a journalist from Austria who has been behind bars in Ankara since September 21, has been released from prison. An international travel ban has been imposed on the journalist.

Today is Christmas, the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. We wish a merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it.

Submitting a parliamentary question to be responded by Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, HDP Muş MP Kılıç Koçyiğit has brought the allegations regarding the murder of one person in Sakarya because he was Kurdish into parliamentary agenda.

Releasing a joint statement regarding the prison sentence given to Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a signatory to the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime”, rights and law organizations have said, “Advocacy for human rights cannot be sentenced.”

Commenting on the release of a man arrested for having sexually abused his 12-year-old cousin, attorney Harika Günay Karataş has stated, “Male justice has continued its proceedings in Yüksekova. The Heavy Penal Court in the district is the instigator now.”

Akpınar and Gezen, against whom the İstanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation due to their statements on a TV program, have been released on probation after their depositions at the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the wake of an investigation launched against them due to their statements on a television program, theater and film actors Metin Akpınar and Müjdat Gezen have been referred to court after deposing at the Prosecutor's Office.