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.

First hearing of Cumhuriyet trial in which 19 Cumhuriyet newspaper employees 11 of whom are arrested is being held today.

Detention warrants have been allegedly issued for four rights advocates who were detained in Büyükada and released on probation. Their attorneys said that they haven’t been informed.

PM Yıldırım has said “I hereby call on German authorities: let us act calmer and deliberately” with respect to Germany FM Gabriel’s statements”.

A group of people from Alperen Movement said that ”If they obstruct our freedom of worship there, we obstruct their freedom of worship here” in the protest staged in front of Neve Şalom Synagogue.

CHP’s Bakan has submitted a parliamentary inquiry to Minister of Justice Gül concerning the criminal complaint regarding psychological and physical torture allegation in Şakran Prison.

Being detained in Tatvan district in Bitlis, HDP Bitlis MP Mizgin Irgat has been released.

The 23rd Summer Deaflympics, the olympics for athletes with impaired hearing founded by The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf began with an opening ceremony yesterday in Samsun province.

Being appointed as the Minister of Labor, Sarıeroğlu has said “Our ministry will meet with a woman minister again after 26 years. In this respect, I know that this is a heavy responsibility”.

Prisoners in Şakran Prison have filed a complaint on the ground that they were subjected to psychological and physical torture.

The Peace Bloc has expressed that arrest of the six rights advocates is a “practice towards damaging social peace”.

As seat of seven ministers have been changed in the new cabinet, figures such as Nabi Avcı, Faruk Çelik, Tuğrul Türkeş have been left out of the cabinet.

Rights organizations have said that works of rights defenders have been obstructed by the government in order to prevent the organizations from determining and reflecting the rights violations during the State of Emergency.