Being organized from July 28 to August 5, 18th International Büyükçekmece Culture and Art Festival hosted 1,300 cultural and art envoys from 64 countries.

Court has ruled that the detention of HDP Kars MP Ayhan Bilgen who is facing up to 25.5 years in prison and has been waiting for his first hearing in detention on remand for seven months continue.

HDP province and district chairs as well as press members who do not possess a press card are not being allowed in the area where the Conscience and Justice Watch meeting is being held in Van.

Women coming together with the motto “Don’t Interfere in the Way I Dress” have announced that an İstanbul Women’s Council has been established. The women added “We will not allow any interference in what any woman wears”.

Government Spokesperson Bozdağ has said that “There is not a single soul who was arrested in Turkey for posting tweet”, however, there are probes against tens of thousands of people, and 1,656 people were arrested only during March-August 2016, according to the Ministry of Interior.

43 rights advocates who have been taken into custody during a demonstration in solidarity with arrested academic Gülmen and teacher Özakça, who are on hunger strike in prison, have been referred to Court to testify before Prosecutor’s Office.

Ankara University Faculty of Law lecturer Asst. Prof. Dr. Kerem Altıparmak has been reprimanded by the university administration over a lecture on the State of Emergency.

43 rights advocates including İHD İstanbul Branch executives, who attempted to stage a demonstration for educators Gülmen and Özakça, who have been on hunger strike, have been in custody for two days.

İstanbul leg of the Conscience and Justice Watch ended last night. Third leg of the watch will begin in Van on August 8, Tuesday.

Constitutional Court has rejected 70,771 applications regarding actions taken through statutory decrees under the State of Emergency due to “non-exhaustion of domestic remedies”.

Women will have a picnic with “whatever they want to wear” at Maçka Park in İstanbul. Women’s forum will be organized following the picnic, after then artists will sing.

The media has been debating on what sort of color the dry almond is rather than the fact that the uniform attire planned to be implemented for July 15 trial defendants is an antidemocratic practice and a right violation.

Police have seized and battered cellist Gülşah Erol at the Kadıköy Metro Station on the pretext of her carrying a bomb.

According to the Occupational Health and Safety Council, at least 205 workers, 163 of whom are laborers/public servants, 30 others are farmers/small-scale landowners and 42 are self-employed including 12 tradespeople, have lost their lives in occupational homicides in July.

Women from İzmir were on the streets to say “Don’t Mess With My Outfit” yesterday.

International Publishers Association has announced that 2017 Voltaire Prize will be given to journalist and publisher Turhan Günay and Evrensel Publishing House, which is the 30th publishing house closed through statutory decree, to draw attention to issues in freedom of expression in Turkey.

The HRW has said that “there are credible grounds to believe that the men are also victims of enforced disappearance by state agents” and asked about their whereabouts.

In July, at least three women were exposed to harassment/violence in July on the pretext of the way they dressed. With the start of school holiday, child abuse cases moved from schools to quran courses.

According to TÜİK’s stats, inflation rate hikes by 0.15% compared to last month; 9.79% in July 2017 compared to the same month of last year in consumer prices.

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the request of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça that “the Court order the Government to release the applicants” deciding that the “applicants’ detention at the Sincan Hospital did not pose a real and imminent risk of irreparable harm to the life or limb of the applicants”.