Commenting on attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin being taken into custody, İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week Committee has described the incident as an “ illegal practice of investigation and detention [which] is a deliberate violation of the right to defense and to fair trial” and noted that they would be following the trial.

Of the Özgür Gündem Editor on Watch campaign participants, 50 have been subjected to investigations, against 36 others charges have been pressed, verdict of non-prosecution has been announced for 11 participants and one case has been dropped.

Taken into custody in Antep on Friday evening, French journalist Oliver Bertrand has been deported.

Attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin taken into custody in a house raid is expected to be sent to Bursa.

The curfew declared on March 14 in Şırnak will not be in effect between 5 a.m and 10 p.m.

Ministry of Interior has announced that the activities of 370 associations have been stopped. Among the associations which were ordered to stop their activities there are associations operating on the fields of women rights, children, press, law and migration.

Curfew has been declared in three villages and one hamlet in Dicle district of Diyarbakır as of Saturday morning. It has been reported that operations will be held in the region.

YPS has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack killing Derik sub-Governor Muhammet Fatih Safitürk in Mardin.

The verdict has been rendered in the trial of 12 year-old Nihat Kazan’s murder by police in Cizre. The police was first sentenced to aggravated lifetime imprisonment and the sentence was then abated to 13 years and 4 months. The family and attorneys will challenge the decision.

Vice Co-Mayor of Hakkari Yıldız has been arrested over “[illegal] organization membership”. In total 34 DBP co-chairs are in prison.

Muş’s Varto sub-Governor Çetin has been appointed as trustee to Varto Municipality. Varto Co-Mayor Sabite Ekinci was arrested.

The MHP Leader Bahçeli has said the meeting he held with the PM on a new constitution and presidential system went fine. Pro-government columnist Abdulkadir Selvi wrote of presidential system proposal.

CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “It is the AKP that aids and abets terror organizations. Why don’t they put me on trial? You do this so I can put forward all evidence”.

Cumhuriyet Newspaper Executive Board President Akın Atalay has been detained at Atatürk Airport where Atalay returned from abroad.

Derik sub-Governor Muhammet Fatih Safitürk who was injured in the attack carried out by members of PKK in Mardin has lost his life.

Aggravated life and from 6.5 to 17.5 years imprisonment have been demanded for Özgür Gündem’s nine writers and executives, four of whom arrested.

The Minister of Justice has announced that “36,000 people have been arrested as part of the FETÖ investigation and 3,456 judges and prosecutors suspended from duty”.

Stolen on November 7, the statue of cat Tombili known for its posture of resting its arm on pavement, has been put back on its place.

Academic Nuriye Gülmen has been detained on the second day of her protest she staged alone with the motto “I want my job” on Ankara’s Yüksek street.

It has been alleged that intelligence engineer arrested as part of the FETÖ investigation has committed suicide in Kırıkkale Prison where he was held.