After Ahmet Hakan’s column about Barış Atay calling for “teaching him his lesson”, the artist was detained this morning.

Ahead of the meeting between Erdoğan and PM of England May, RSF members and PEN England representatives who rallied on Downing Street have carried banners reading “Free Turkey Media”.

Papers reading T A M A M have been hanged on symbolic places on streets of London where Erdoğan went for his two-day visit.

Singer and politician Pınar Aydınlar has been detained at Atatürk Airport and arrested on the ground that her sentence of 10 months in prison has been upheld.

A construction worker was arrested in the district of Bodrum in Muğla on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” due to his social media posts.

İYİ Party Chair and Presidential candidate Meral Akşener has responded to a question regarding the imprisonment of Selahattin Demirtaş by saying, “We think that the pre-trial detention of politicians, intellectuals and journalists is not right.”

The ECtHR has ruled that Turkey pay material and immaterial compensation of 12 thousand euros to Vatandaş, who applied to the ECtHR with the complaint that he was tortured and ill-treated in custody.

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The unemployment figures announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute have shown that the unemployment rate in February 2018 has fallen by two points in comparison with the same month last year and has become 10.6 percent.

“The Turkish government’s crackdown is targeting academics and damaging its universities”, said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

Academics Gülşah Kurt and S.U., who have left Kadir Has University, have had their first hearings. While Kurt could not attend the hearing on the ground that she was abroad on duty, both hearings have been adjourned to October 2018.

Anna-Klara Bratt from feministperspectiv.se from Sweden and Prof. Dr. Alankuş have attended the final conference of “Gender Based Journalism” project as speaker. The session has been moderated by Yıldız Tar from Kaos GL.

Osman Kavala, who has been in prison since November 2017, has sent a letter. Still pending his indictment, Kavala has written, “Unless the presumption of innocence is embraced as the key element of the judicial process from the beginning, this imbalance will persist.”

Hrant’s Friends have been in front of Çağlayan Courthouse again demanding justice ahead of the 21st hearing of trial of Dink murder.

President Erdoğan, who has been on a three-day visit to the UK, has been greeted by protesters on his way to the Chatham House in London, where he would deliver a speech. Protesters have welcomed Erdoğan with banners, which read, “Terrorist.”

Election manifesto of HDP’s imprisoned presidential candidate Demirtaş has been shared with the public in a meeting held in Ankara. İYİ Party candidate Akşener has declared her course of action.

Necmiye Alpay, Nadire Mater, Pakrat Estukyan, Hakkı Boltan. Ahmet Şık, Tunca Öğreten, Gökçer Tahincioğlu, Timur Soykan and Sarah Clarke have attended “Panel of Journalism in Turkey” organized by the Amnesty.

Reyhan Çapan, the former editor-in-chief of Özgür Gündem daily newspaper, which was closed by a statutory decree, has been arrested in Artvin. She was previously sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison.

One woman has been arrested in Eskişehir by criminal judgeship of peace on charge of insulting the president.

Hundreds of students have come together at the 8th METU LGBTI+ Pride Parade with the slogan, “Ban all the bans.”