Police haven’t let the people attend group meeting of the HDP at Ekin Ceren Park where the HDP has launched Conscience and Justice Watch. Only HDP executives and MPs have been let inside the park.

Rights advocate Nejat Taştan detained during a training workshop on July 5 in Büyükada along with other nine rights defenders, released later and taken forcibly with a warrant to give testimony before court though has been released again.

Making evaluations prior to the meeting, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Hahn has stated that Turkey is slipping away from European values and it has to take action.

Upon public reaction, the City Line has announced that the dogs will be let inside the ferry without a cage on the condition of being put a muzzle on.

The second hearing in the Cumhuriyet daily trial in which one Twitter user under arrest and 18 executives, journalists and employees from Cumhuriyet daily 11 of whom are also arrested are standing trial is being held today.

International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces has announced that Queer Insurgency and Liberation Army has been formed to combat ISIS in Syria.

Two lawyers representing educators Gülmen and Özakça who have been on hunger strike have been detained and taken to Ankara Security Anti-Terror Bureau, and that Gülmen’s sister was detained as well on Yüksel Street and released following her statement.

Illustrator Tarık Tolunay has sketched the proceedings in the courtroom during the first hearing of Cumhuriyet daily trial.

Press organizations have criticized that the Cumhuriyet daily trial which was being monitored closely by the media in Europe was not being covered in the mainstream media except certain newspapers and have condemned the situation as “shameful”.

Three people behind the correspondent put the banners reading “Down With Tyranny, Long Live Freedom” and “Cumhuriyet Doesn’t Remain Silent” as well as Ahmet Şık’s photo into the frame as the TRT team were covering the trial.

One soldier has lost his life while driving a private vehicle in an armed attack by members of PKK in Siirt.

A group of journalists and rights defenders have marched to İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan for the first hearing in the Cumhuriyet daily trial in which one Twitter user under arrest and 18 executives, journalists and employees from Cumhuriyet daily 11 of whom are also arrested are standing trial.