A helibus carrying two pilots and five passengers has crashed in İstanbul. Five people have lost their lives, according to initial findings.

Gülmen, Özakça and Karadağ, who declared to start a hunger strike after 120 days passed over their protest in Ankara, have been detained following making a statement to the press.

Being imprisoned in Silivri Prison, journalist Ahmet Şık in his message he delivered at the meeting he had with his wife has said he knows he is a “referendum hostage” like many other prisoners.

After being relieved of her MP duties on February 21, 2017 Figen Yüksekdağ was also removed from her HDP membership by the Supreme Court of Appeal as of today.

Answering a question about an event to be held in the Netherlands, FM Çavuşoğlu has said he may make the visit after the elections in the Netherlands in case Dutch FM Koenders “asks properly”.

The journalists have launched a social media campaign for their imprisoned colleagues. #FreePress has entered Turkey’s agenda on Twitter. A letter will be sent to the journalists imprisoned in Silivri Prison No.9 on Saturday.

Prime Minister Yıldırım has announced that the State of Emergency could be extended via a resolution by the National Security Council. If the State of Emergency declared on July 20, 2016 for the first time was to be extended for three more months for the third time, it will have been in effect for a whole year.

Of the Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch, Balıkçı has been fined 6,000 TL, Anter and Okatan each have been fined 7,000 TL, and Başer and Batumlu each sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Yesterday evening, the İstiklal street in İstanbul witnessed one of the broadest participations in a demonstration in the recent years. The street was filled with women and their slogans.

Boğaziçi University academic member Assist. Prof. Dr. Noémi Levy-Aksu whose contract has been cancelled by the Council of Higher Education says the decision was rendered due to her being a signatory academic.

Women students, who organized a March 8 Festival in Santral Campus of Bilgi University, faced an attack by a group of men. The students said the attackers shouted Allah-u Akbar, and that at least one of them was carrying a knife.

Despite the current Election Law and the Supreme Election Board provisions prohibiting all sorts of election propaganda abroad, Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has propagandized for the referendum calling on the people from the balcony of the Consulate General of Turkey in Germany.