The next hearing of 13 journalists, who have been tried for participating in the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign launched for the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed as per a Statutory Decree, will be held on March 28, 2019.

The tenth hearing in the main trial of Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed as per a Statutory Decree, has been held. While the court board has lifted the international travel ban of Eren Keskin, it has ruled that the arrest of Kemal Sancılı shall continue.

Three years have passed since the Ankara Massacre on October 10, 2015, which claimed the lives of 103 people and injured more than 500 others. The police has not allowed the commemoration to be held in Ankara and battered one person. Upon the reaction of people, the police has permitted entrance to the site of commemoration.

UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani has made a call to “conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the circumstances of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and to make the findings public.”

Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak has stated that it is not mandatory for companies to participate in the 10-percent discount campaign and called the citizens to prefer the ones that will take part in the campaign.

After his demand for being treated in a hospital has been accepted, ill prisoner Vefa Kartal has ended his hunger strike on its 96th day.

The Prosecutor’s Office has announced its opinion as to the accusations regarding academics Mungan, Camcı, Kaya and Ersoy in their eighth hearing held 30 months after they were arrested. The office has demanded that the academics be penalized.

The next hearing of the case, which has been filed against Önderoğlu, Nesin and Korur-Fincancı on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” after they solidarized with the closed Özgür Günden newspaper, will be held in January 2019.

In an attack that was launched on the district of Çukurca in Hakkari from Zap region, one soldier has lost his life. One civilian and three soldiers have also been injured.

Over 100 people, among whom are also journalists Abdurrahman Gök, Esra Solin Dal, Kibriye Evren and Semiha Alankuş, have been taken into custody in house raids.

The Washington Post has published the last photograph of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi, which shows him while entering the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in İstanbul. President Erdoğan, US President Trump and US Department of State have also released statements about the journalist, who has allegedly been killed.

According to a report by Diyarbakır Bar Center for Child Rights, the youngsters some of whom were children at that time are still having psychological issues.

Six academics from Boğaziçi University have had their second hearings. Two academics have not attended the hearings. The case files of three academics have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office for opinion as to the accusations.

Men killed at least 23 women and two girls in September. 22 percent of the women were killed for seeking divorce. 22 percent of the murders occurred in public places.

The Ministry of Interior has announced that 320 social media accounts have been investigated and legal action has been taken against 263 people over the last week.

Brush & Bow, a UK-based creative journalism platform, published song of Suna Alan "Nadia", which is based on Yazidi women captured by ISIS,in the person of Nadia Murad, who won Nobel Peace Prize,

Politicians have denounced President Erdoğan, who has signaled that trustees will be appointed to municipalities after the local elections in March: “It has been announced six months before the elections that the right to a free election does not exist in Turkey.”

Former HDP MP and Honorary Chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü is going to be entitled Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe honorary membership.

49 people have been taken into custody in a simultaneous operation that was conducted in six cities. While the house of the family of Ethem Sarısülük, who was killed during Gezi resistance, has been raided, writer Temel Demirer has also been detained.

Taken into custody due to his articles and social media posts, Yeni Yaşam Editor-in-Chief Çağdaş Kaplan has been released.