Cumhuriyet newspaper executives have filed a criminal complaint against Akit TV presenter Yusuf Ozan, who targeted Cumhuriyet and its employees.

Trial about 19-year-old Öner being crushed to death by an armored vehicle started yesterday, however the police defendant didn’t attend the hearing.

Journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu has been acquitted in the case filed against him for “insulting the president” by tweeting “Take your 400 MPs and give us our 30 children back, you lowly murderer,” after the Suruç massacre.

“Social media” operations have been conducted in various districts of seven cities within the past day. A total of 117 people have been detained in house raids.

PM Yıldırım has answered questions about journalist Deniz Yücel, imprisoned for a year and still pending indictment, Turkey-Germany relations, developments in Syria, and freedom of expression.

News of capsized boats and drowning refugees has started to come from the Meriç (Maritsa or Evros) River as well, after many such reports from the Aegean Sea. Görendağ from Amnesty International believes maritime transit increases in the spring, and that tensions in the political climate will only fuel its rise.

HDP’s Meral Danış Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary question on the detention of rights defenders and politicians following their declaration titled “No to the war in Afrin”, asking: “Why does the government target freedom of thought and expression?”

Women will be at Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district with the slogan “Down with Unequal Love” on February 14 (Valentine’s Day).

A new lawsuit has been brought against Ferhat Tunç. The crime is writing “We won’t remain silent” on Twitter.

Staging protest to be reinstated to her job, architect Alev Şahin has been detained after she was taken into custody yesterday.

Six people have been arrested in Hakkari due to their social media posts about Afrin operation. Operations were launched this morning in six cities on charge of “calling for demonstration”.

First hearings of 15 signatory academics from Koç, Arel, Marmara, Özyeğin, Bahçeşehir, Yüzüncü Yıl, Kadir Has, Yıldız Teknik universities have been held.