It is the 20th day of Turkey’s Afrin operation, and Syria’s airspace has been closed to Turkey’s military forces for the past four days. The general staff’s fact sheets feature no information on TAF jets’ air bombardments of the past two days.

President of Russia Putin and President Erdoğan have held a meeting on phone about Syria. It was decided in the meeting that cooperation between Iran, Russia and Turkey should continue.

Two academics from Istanbul and Galatasaray Universities who had their first hearings on December 7, 2017 at 33rd Heavy Penal Court have presented their defenses at their second hearings.

RSF Turkey representative and bianet correspondent Erol Önderoğlu has won the Roosevelt Foundation 2018 Freedom of Speech and Expression Award. “This award belongs to all those committed to free and ethical journalism and to upholding solidarity,” Önderoğlu has said.

Men killed at least 13 women, two children and two men who were next to the women at the moment of the murder in the first month of 2018.

Taken off the stage and reprogrammed for interrupting Minister Arslan at the Secure Internet program, Robot Sanbot has been forced to apologize to Arslan.

Two soldiers have lost their lives, eight others have been wounded in the attack launched in the area between Darmık Mountain and Bülbül district in northern Afrin during Operation Olive Branch.

France’s FM Jean-Yves Le Drian has told BFM TV Channel that international law “is being violated by Turkey, by the Damascus regime, by Iran and those who are attacking eastern Ghouta and Idlib.”

Five people in Çanakkale and Aydın have been detained for “insulting the president” due to their social media posts about Afrin operation.

The Information and Communication Technologies Authority has blocked access to direnisteyiz.org, Mezopotamya Agency and Kizilbayrak.net.

Akçalı village residents whose cell phones do not get reception have been putting their them in a box, which they elevate with a drone, and communicating with loved ones through wireless earphones.

ETHA reporter Kayar, Ali Deniz Esen from the ESP, Sıtkı Güngör, Narin Duru, Boran Atıcı, Eren Bulut from the SGDF have been sent to prison.

Of the 122 imprisoned journalists 21 are convicted, 66 have been tried, 31 have been facing investigation, and four await the outcome of their objection to their convictions.

A large number of HDP members have been detained in home raids in İstanbul.

With HDP Şırnak MP Encü being relieved of MP duties, the number of HDP MPs who were relieved of MP duties increased to seven.

34th Heavy Penal Court has rejected acquittal, consolidation and citation requests in all four hearings. The court ruled for a written statement to be submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office on how the declaration by Academics for Peace was made public.

Detained as part of the investigation launched into social media posts about Afrin operation, Tekin, Erez, Erol, Kurt and Akbay have been released on probation.

Syrian regime has installed new air defense systems in Aleppo and Idlib. As attack on observation post of Turkey in al-Eis jeopardizes the de-conflict zone, Pentagon reiterated that they won’t withdraw from Manbij.

The Ministry of Interior had stated that 449 people were detained on charge of “propagandizing for terrorism” due to their social media posts about Afrin operation. 10 more people were detained this morning by the same reason.

Justice Watch participant Kemal Aytaç deposed at the prosecutor’s office after police searched his house for reading out the Turkish Medical Association’s declaration entitled “War is a Matter of Public Health”.