According to a joint research led by CAN Europe, coal based power plants causing excess air pollution lead to tens of thousands of premature deaths of respiratory and vascular diseases, mercury contamination in plants and animals, destruction of huge forest areas in the Muğla Province.

The detailed ruling of US Pastor Brunson, who has been sentenced to 3 years, 1 month and 15 days in prison, has been announced. In the ruling, it has been stated, “Adequate evidence as to the charges of political and military espionage has not been found.”

Governorship of Diyarbakır has announced that the operation launched in the province has ended and the curfews previously declared in 77 villages and hamlets in Hazro, Lice and Kocaköy have been lifted. It has been the 191th curfew lifted in Diyarbakır.

13 academics have had their hearings at two courts. The Prosecutor’s Office has demanded that academic Esra Arsan be penalized as per the Article no. 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law. Arsan has not requested that the announcement of the verdict be suspended.

After inconclusive talks with Saudi counterparts in Istanbul, Turkish prosecutors "deeming it compulsory regarding the gravity of the incident to share their version of the Khashoggi murder case based on available evidence" unilaterally release their narrative of the Khashoggi's murder today,

Reflecting the reverse trend in the aftermath of the devaluation of the Turkish Lira before foreign currencies, Turkey's foreing trade deficit decreases by 77.1 percent as the countries' imports fall.

Teachers Nursel Tanrıverdi and Selvi Polat, who were discharged by a Statutory Decree and were previously arrested for two weeks on the ground that they staged sit-in protests with the demand to be reinstated to their jobs, have been arrested again.

Five people, including reporter Ali Sönmez Kayar from the Etkin News Agency, who have been arrested on charge of “being members of a terrorist organization”, have been released at their second hearing.

A press conference has been held in İstanbul on the occasion that it has been more than a year since rights advocate and businessperson Osman Kavala was arrested. One of his attorneys, Bayraktar has said, “If law exists in Turkey, Kavala should be released”.

According to the report entitled “An Unfair Start: Inequality in Children’s Education in Rich Countries” released by UNICEF Office of Research, Turkey has ranked the last among 41 countries in terms of preschool education.

While concerns are raised for the massive delay in the completion of Berlin Airport's construction, specialists are quoted to criticize the working conditions in Turkey: "Berlin and Istanbul are incomparable. There, the construction proceeds under whips."

Central Bank Chair Murat Çetinkaya has announced their inflation forecast for the fourth quarter of 2018. Accordingly, the year-end inflation forecast of the Central Bank has been increased from its previous level of 13.4 percent to 23.5 percent.

Public Prosecutor of Saudi Arabia Saud al-Mojeb, who has been in İstanbul as part of the investigation launched into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has visited the İstanbul Courthouse and the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey.

Albeit charging critics harshly, Minister Soylu commenting on the incident today admitted that "teams of 12 were part of an airborne operation and were dropped to a landlocked timberless region" many days ago but insisted that "the same weather conditions do not lead to same effects for every person."

ECtHR has given its judgement in the case of Kaboğlu and Oran, who applied to the court after hate speech and threats they were subjected to due to their Minority Report were met with impunity. The court has sentenced Turkey to pay 7 thousand Euro in damages.

President Erdoğan has announced the name of the 3rd airport in İstanbul by stating, “May the İstanbul Airport be beneficial to the whole world, our region and our country”.

The Governorship of Diyarbakır has announced that a curfew has been declared in 77 villages and hamlets in the district of Hazro, Lice and Kocaköy in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır on the ground of an operation to be conducted in the region.

Hamburg Central Foreigners’ Registration Office has announced that journalist Adil Yiğit, whose residence permit has not been extended and who has been demanded to leave Germany on January 20, 2019 the latest, will not be deported from Germany.

With particular focus on lifting the isolation on jailed Öcalan, the two day conference in Diyarbakır upholds his Democratic Nation paradigm and calls for establishing a democratic front against fascism in Turkey and urges for Kurdish national unity against colonialism.

"The government advertises Istanbul's new airport as the biggest in the world, but the prestige project has been marred by reports of accidents and arrests of protesting workers," says, Emma Sinclair-Webb, director of international human rights NGO HRW.