Prosecution demanded journalist Tuğrul Eryılmaz, one of the Editors-in-Chief on Watch from the now-closed Özgür Gündem daily standing trial, be convicted for “publishing and spreading crimes of terrorist organizations”. The trial has been adjourned.

10 attorneys from People’s Law Office have been taken into custody. The Office representing academics Gülmen and Özakça on hunger strike said regarding the detention: “They want to leave Semih and Nuriye without legal representation”.

At end of the second hearing in the Cumhuriyet trial yesterday, the court ruled that Murat Sabuncu, Akın Atalay, Kadri Gürsel, Ahmet Şık, Emre İper Ahmet Kemal Aydoğdu remain in detention on remand. The next hearing will be on September 25.

2nd hearing in Cumhuriyet trial was held today in Silivri Court. The court heard former editor-in-chief Yıldız, news coordinator Küçükkaya, Cumhuriyet Foundation’s former executives Tüfekçioğlu, İnal and Kıraç, correspondent İlknur, columnist Soner and former public accountant Pamukoğlu as witnesses in today’s hearing.

100 construction vehicles and 400 trucks of the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality has entered the campus of Middle East Technical University on Saturday evening for the construction of a road planned to pass through the campus area.

Minister of Justice has announced that 69,301 students were currently behind bars in Turkey. CHP İstanbul MP and member of Commission on Human Rights Watch İlgezdi pointed out to arising problems such as expulsion due to absence, lack of learning space and the inability to cover the costs of education.

Former presidents of Diyabakır Chamber of Medicine Op. Dr. Selçuk Mızraklı and Op. Dr. Şemsettin Koç who were taken into custody in Diyarbakır and later arrested, were released on Friday evening.

US court has approved warrant of arrest for Former Minister of Economy Çağlayan who was added as a new suspect in Reza Zarrab’s trial in the US.

Responding to Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affair’s travel alert for citizens of Turkey planning to visit Germany, German Chancellor Merkel said: “No journalists are arrested here”

The second hearing in the Cumhuriyet trial will be held today in Silivri Court. In today’s hearing, defendants will be heard.

An investigation has been launched upon CHP İstanbul MP Tanrıkulu’s statement that civilians were being shot by armed drones.

At least 217 workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in August. 198 of these workers were men and 19 were women. The most homicides occurred in İstanbul and Sakarya.

Abdullah Çakır, an aggressor who kicked Ayşegül Terzi on a bus for wearing shorts on the first day of Eid was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison. Çakıroğlu said in his defence that “Turkey is an Islamic country”.

The court has ruled that HDP MP Ayhan Bilgen, who is facing trial on the charge of “being a member of a terrorist organization” regarding the Kobanê protests from October 6-8, 2014, be released pending trial. Ayhan had been behind bars for over seven months.

Constitutional Court has rejected the appeal against the decision that the HDP MPs Faysal Sarıyıldız and Tuğba Hezer-Öztürk be relieved of their MP duties, and ruled that the decision was in accordance with the Constitution, the applicable laws, and the by-laws.

HDP İzmir MP Kürkçü, after being taken forcibly before the Court, reminded that his parliamentary immunity continues and asked “How will you try a PACE member for whose trial a permission of PACE is needed?”

Academic and politician Prof. Dr. Türkan Akyol, who was the first woman member of the Parliament and the first woman to be elected president of a university in Turkey, has lost her life at the age of 89.

Former Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan has been added as a new suspect in Reza Zarrab’s trial in the US. Çağlayan is being charged with “receiving millions of dollars in bribe payments” among other crimes.

Harun Turgan and Bülent Uyguner, who were arrested due to their participation in a commemoration event for İbrahim Kaypakkaya, a leader of the Communist movement in Turkey who was killed in 1973 in prison, were released yesterday.

An attack has been carried out on workers at a power transmission line in the rural area of Çobanpınar village in Yüksekova district of Hakkari. Two workers have lost their lives, three others have been injured.