Humor Magazine Gırgır has been closed by its publisher due to a caricature of Prophet Moses in its latest issue. All employees of the magazine have been laid off.

Being released after three months of arrest, HDP Şırnak MP Ferhat Encü has been taken into custody in Şerafettin Elçi Airport in Şırnak.

Şık, taken into custody on December 29, 2016 and arrested on the next day, pleaded in the final hearing of ODA TV trial.

Warrant has been issued to take HDP MP Baluken forcibly for arrest. Baluken had been arrested in November 2016 and later released in January 2017.

23 people including Progressive Legists' Association Central Office Director and Peoples’ Law Office attorney Barkın Timtik have been released after 64 days of arrest.

In 2016, the number of imprisoned journalists rose from 31 to 131, a record high for the last five years. 56 journalists were attacked, and 118 others were threatened. 179 media outlets were shut down by statutory decrees, and 10,000 media workers were left jobless.

Directors of the short film “The Last Schnitzel” have announced that some scenes needed to be taken out of the film for a “Application Registration Form” though they would not do that and the film would therefore not take place in !f İstanbul Independent Film Festival.

President Erdoğan has performed Umrah in Saudi Arabia where he went for official talks.

Being arrested on November 4, 2016 and sent to Kandıra Type F Prison, HDP Şırnak MP Ferhat Encü has been released.

Supreme Council of Education president Saraç announced martyrs’ spouses and children who are already registered at a university have been granted the right to study at any university they wish.

The hearing of Hasan Cemal, who is on trial in the "Editor in Chief on Watch" case concerning Özgür Gündem, has been postponed to March 7. Cemal was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison due to his article in T24, the sentence has been postponed.

Saying “I can’t accept [the discharges of academics]”, publisher-writer Tanıl Bora has closed the lecture titled “Political Thoughts in Turkey” he gave for 15 years at Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences.

Providing information particular to LGBTI individuals on sexual health, lgbtisagligi.org has gone online.

A 10-day struggle to rescue a puppy that fell into a well in the Beykoz district of İstanbul has finally paid off. The puppy was rescued with committed team work.

The journalists haven’t been allowed to enter Oda TV hearing in which 13 suspects including journalists Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, Soner Yalçın and Yalçın Küçük and former Security Director Hanefi Avcı are tried.

A school principal detained on charge of sexually abusing children in a high school in Ankara’s Haymana has been released following prosecution questioning.

122 academics from Amsterdam University have made a call for solidarity with academics of Turkey via a statement they released.

Ankara, Haymana’da bir lisede çocuklara cinsel istismarda bulunduğu iddiasıyla gözaltına alınan okul müdürü savcılık sorgusunun ardından serbest bırakıldı.

We, the filmmakers of Turkey, who came together in the 67th Berlin Film Festival, are behind our very first call for peace. Therefore, we are calling for support from our colleagues all over the world to rise up the solidarity against censorship, oppression and war politics.

312 signees of the declaration "We will not be a party to this crime" by Academics for Peace have been discharged by statutory decrees.