Semih Özkarakaş from the Bursa Free Colors LGBTI+ Association, has explained the LGBTI bans spreading from Ankara to Bursa: “We are learning to struggle and develop new practices despite all bans”.

The second hearing in the trial is being held regarding the gun attack in the entertainment venue, Reina, in Ortaköy, İstanbul during new year celebrations on January 1, 2017 killing 39 people and leaving 79 others injured.

The prosecutor has presented his opinion as to the accusations; he demanded that six defendants among whom are journalists be sentenced to aggravated lifetime imprisonment.

Cleaning worker on whose head an iron piece fell at Bakırköy Sports Foundation Social Facilities has lost his life on the scene.

Freemuse, an NGO advocating for and defending artistic freedom of expression has urged to release singer and artist Ferhat Tunç, who faces 10 years in prison. Tunç will stand trial on December 14, 2017.

Figures including Bono, Orhan Pamuk, Fatih Akın, Slavoj Žižek signed the petition calling for release of Deniz Yücel who has been in prison for 301 days.

The 400-day mail ban for the defendants of Cumhuriyet daily, who are behind bars, has ended. A campaign has been launched on social media with the hashtag #ÖzgürlüğeMektup (letter to freedom) urging the readers to write to the journalists in prison.

The Austrian League of Human Rights has granted its human rights award to İHD Secretary General İşçi. İşçi said that this award was given to the human rights movement. He couldn’t go to receive his award due to his international travel ban.

Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu has responded to Erdoğan: "I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran get around international sanctions”.

Socialist Woman’s Assembly Spokesperson Nurcan Vayiç and HDP Hopa District Chair Cemil Aksu who were arrested in October 2017, were released on Friday.

One soldier has lost his life in an explosion of the detonation of an improvised explosive device planted on the road in Akçay, Şırnak.

Music professor Osborne has brought a petition prepared by 10 world-renowned artists and rights defenders demanding Kavala be freed to Turkey.

Men killed at least 15 women, three girls and seven men in November. 20% of the women were killed for attempting to break up or divorce, or rejecting the proposal to recommence the relationship.

Sinop University academic member Assist. Prof. Dr. İrfan Mukul has been suspended from the university for visiting his student Semih Özakça, who has been on hunger strike.

The court has ordered Bekir Yokuş, Ecevit Emir, Emre Cingöz, Hacin Şerif Şimşek and Şeref Ateş to be released in Hrant Dink murder trial. The trial will resume on January 29-30 and February 1-2.

15 Columbia University faculty members have made urged the Turkish Government to release the arrested rights advocate and Anadolu Kültür association’s chairperson Kavala and to drop all charges against him.

The seventh hearing in the trial of then Halkbank Deputy General Director Mehmet Hakan Atilla charged with evading US sanctions on Iran, was held on December 7. Testifying as a witness Reza Zarrab confirmed that the piano and the wrist watch he gave to then Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan was a bribe to work with Halkbank.

The court has ruled continuation of arrest of HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş who has been tried on 31 summaries. The next hearing is on February 14.

Yusuf Gülsevgi from Antep Zeugmadi LGBTI has said, “The governorship has given green light to homophobic and transphobic people. Two LGBTI activists were subjected to violence in Antep in the wake of the ban”.

President Erdoğan has slammed Trump over his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The US President has disregarded the United Nations’ resolution in 1980”.