The motion foreseeing the shortening of parliamentary speech time has been voted and approved with the intervention of Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman. Upon the approval of the motion, the MPs of the CHP and HDP have left the general assembly.

Chemistry professor Tunçay and Prof. Ondan each have been sentenced to 15 months in prison. The court has deferred announcement of the verdict.

Osman Evcan, who has gone on hunger strike for four times before and has managed to add vegan-vegetarian food article to Food Regulation for Convicted and Imprisoned, has announced that he has been on hunger strike again since March 26.

Cumali Öz, Mehmet Kadir Özkara, Özgür Bozkurt, Kemal Daşdeğen, Süleyman Güneş, Uğur Selman Kelekçiler, Muhammet Özkan and Mürsel Demir, who were among those detained in raid on Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and Gün Printing House, have been arrested.

Considered an important pilgrimage spot for Armenians, St. Stephanos Church has been looted in Van.

Vice PM and Government Spokesperson Bozdağ has said, “The need for extending the State of Emergency is obvious”. The State of Emergency was extended for the sixth time on January 19.

Five academics have had their first hearings at two different courts. The 24th Heavy Penal Court Board has granted the academics additional time so that they can prepare their statements of defence regarding the allegation of “aiding a terrorist organization as non-members.”

New York Prosecutor’s Office has demanded at least 15 years and 8 month of imprisonment for Mehmet Hakan Atilla in a petition it submitted to the court ahead of the hearing to be held on April 11.

The Defence Minister of Greece Kammenos has made a statement where he has referred to Turkey as an “enemy.” Kammenos has said, “We are not frightened or brought to our knees by their provocations, their threats, and their insults.”

The President of Iraq Fuad Masum has stated that “his country is fearful of an Afrin operation being repeated in Shingal.” Masum has added, “After the withdrawal of PKK, foreign forces cannot come and invade a part of Iraq.”

Arrested on charge of “being a member of an illegal organization” in 1994, lifetime imprisonment imposed second time on Çomak following ECtHR’s decision dated 2007 has been upheld once again by the Supreme Court.

Prof. Dr. Esen from Boğaziçi University has made her defence at her first hearing at 14th Heavy Penal Court. As for the professors Üstel and Polat, the 32nd Heavy Penal Court has sentenced them to 1 year 3 months in prison. The penalty of Üstel has not been postponed.

Ahmet Güneş, the father of Mezopotamya Agency reporter Berzan Güneş, for whom a detention warrant was issued, has been detained.

Nine of 16 detained Boğaziçi University students have been arrested on charge of allegedly “attempting to show the state as an illegitimate power engaging in illegitimate activities.”

Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper staff Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Pınar Tarlak, Hicran Ürün and its former staff Mehmet Beyazıt have been detained.

Inflation has increased by 0.99 percent in March, becoming 10.23 percent on annual basis. The figures have shown that the annual inflation rate has exceeded the expectations.

While one of three courts have approved the demand that files be requested from 13th Heavy Penal Court, the other two rejected. Demands for immediate acquittal have been rejected.

Claiming that Turkey has “recently become more provocative and is exacerbating the situation on every front”, PM of Greece Tsipras has called on Turkey to “tone down aggression”.

After İstanbul, Antalya and İzmir, the 16th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival will be in Trabzon on April 6-7-8.

One of seven people who were detained on charge of “promoting illegal organization” was detained in Erzincan today.