Cutting financial aids to Turkey is on the agenda of EU ministers of economy who will gather to discuss budget of 2018 today. The European Parliament earlier proposed an 80-million Euro cut.

Curfew has been declared in three hamlets of Kulp district of the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey ahead of planned operations.

Academics from France have made a statement of solidarity with the arrested rights advocate, businessperson Osman Kavala: “Like other intellectuals from Turkey, Osman Kavala has been left alone in a country which continues to oppress oppositional academics, imprison journalists”.

Rıza Sarraf for who Turkey sent a diplomatic note to the US on the ground that nothing had been heard from him, didn’t attend the hearing yesterday. Çavuşoğlu said that two notes, not one were sent to the US.

Trial of 24 activists, who were detained during 15th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Parade, has started. Next hearing is on February 27.

Two soldiers have lost their lives and another has been severely injured in a clash during an operation carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces against members of PKK in Avaçin Basyan region under the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Constitutional Court has declared the application of HDP Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım inadmissible.

Union of Turkish Bar Associations Chair Feyzioğlu has said, “Nobody should expect me to be sympathetic to Nuriye and Semih”.

The third hearing in the case of Berkin Elvan, who lost his life after being shot on the head with a gas cartridge during the Gezi protests in 2013, was held today. The police officer who is the suspect of the trial was not brought to court, and his testimony could not be taken due to a failure of the Audio and Visual Information System.

Vice PM Bozdağ has announced that the US responded to the diplomatic note sent by Turkey concerning Sarraf, who hadn’t been heard from for six days. “It was stated that Sarraf’s health condition is fine”, Bozdağ said.

After the act authorizing muftis to perform marriage entered into effect, the first marriage performed by a mufti took place in a mass marriage ceremony organized by Bismil municipality.

German LGBTI Film Days has been banned by Ankara Governorship following some tweets shared with #MayLGBTFilmDaysBeCancelled and #BlackMarkOnOurFreedom hashtags.

Upon not being able to receive any information of Sarraf, who has been kept in custody for one and a half years in the US, Turkey has demanded information via diplomatic note.

Announcing that military operations would be carried out in 12 neighbourhoods in Silvan, Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey, Diyarbakır Governorship has declared curfew that would be in effect as of this morning.

HDP Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım has been released of the suit in which she was charged with “Propagandizing for a terror organization and inciting people to insurgency”. Her arrest over “being a member of a terror organization” continues.

Ruling on the applications of Pınar and Bilge, who had been laid off for participating in trade union activities, the Constitutional Court has decided in favor of the applicants and recognized that their trade union rights were violated.

Ministry of National Defense has responded to parliamentary inquiry submitted by CHP’s Tanrıkulu about the mules killed by army staff in 2015 in Uludere: “We don’t have any document or information about this matter”.

Concerning his statement that “No academic, politician or journalists who signed this petition would be granted right to live by any country, leave alone sending them to prison” addressing the Peace Declaration signatory academics, AKP’s Kavcıoğlu has said his words were twisted.

Holding a statement regarding the claims of torture in Elazığ Prison, women’s organizations have informed, that four political prisoner women have been on a hunger strike since November 1 and have been kept in solitary confinement cells.

Demanding an official apology concerning the Dersim massacre, Tunceli Bar Association has requested the truth be shared with the public, whereabouts of the disappeared be searched and commemorations be held for those who lost their lives.