Telling that they were battered in their cells for asking for their books, Grup Yorum’s imprisoned member Gökçek has filed a criminal complaint against the prison guards.

The Ayvalık Penal Court of Peace has ruled that the book “History of Kurdistan”, whose first edition was confiscated by the State Security Court in 2001, shall be pulled off the shelves.

Goldman Sachs has drawn attention to the expectation that increasing macro uncertainty, exchange rate volatility and high interest rates may generate pressure on the economic growth in Turkey.

The bag law draft, which has also foreseen the introduction of paid military service, has been approved by the General Assembly of the Parliament and become a law.

Police barriers around Human Rights Monument where educators Gülmen and Özakça staged protests have been lifted after 430 days.

US Secretary of State Pompeo has made a statement in the wake of Pastor Brunson’s detention was converted to house arrest. Stating that “We welcome long overdue news”, Pompeo said, “It’s not enough”.

403 social media accounts have been investigated and legal action has been taken against 267 social media users over the last week.

The bill rendering State of Emergency practices permanent for at least three years has been approved in the parliament.

The US Pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, who was behind bars on charge of “espionage” since December 2016, has been placed under house arrest.

Indefinite curfew has been declared in eight village and hamlets in Kulp, Diyarbakır. Operation will be launched in the region.

Targeted by social media trolls due to her tweet criticizing capital punishment, actress Berna Laçin faces up to 1 year in prison.

The US Senate and House of Representatives have reached an agreement on the law draft relating to the defense expenditures in 2019 despite the objections of the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Accordingly, the US Congress has temporarily stopped the delivery of F-35 jets to Turkey.

After the Central Bank has announced that it has kept the political interest rate fixed at 17.75 percent, the Turkish Lira has decreased in value against the US Dollar. The exchange rate of dollar has reached the level of 4.94 TRY.

Ergin Çağlar, the reporter of Mezopotamya Agency, was taken into custody during the road control of the gendarmerie in the district of Pazarbaşı in Maraş on the ground that “there is a search warrant issued for him.” Çağlar has been released after giving his deposition.

HDP Urfa MP Ömer Öcalan has submitted a proposal for parliamentary inquiry into the armed attack and conflict which erupted in the district of Suruç in Urfa before the elections on June 24. He has also submitted a parliamentary question to be responded by the Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül.

An investigation has been launched into the HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan’s statement, “We do not accept that an investigation has been launched against our four friends. Attending funerals is a part of our culture.”

HDP İstanbul MP Ahmet Şık could not complete his speech due to the attack of the AKP İzmir MP Alpay Özalan. Şık has been given a penalty of not attending two parliamentary sessions by the votes of the AKP MPs.

Stating that the 25-article bill introduced by AKP to parliament will make State of Emergency permanent, CHP’s Tezcan has said, “They are granting governors with authority to close down cities. It is not possible to attribute legitimacy to this order”.

The jailed CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu has announced that as a protest against the ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeals, he will “not attend the open-closed visits of his family, attorneys and MPs, will not use his right to defence at court and will stop communicating with the outside world.”

Leaflets titled “Homosexuality threat” have been dropped in mail boxes and streets in Osmaniye. In the previous days, leaflets including homophobic hate speech were distributed in Ankara and İzmir as well.