Yeniçağ daily writers Servet Avcı, Adnan İslamoğulları and Yavuz Selim Demirağ have been taken into custody as part of the investigation launched into the Gülen Community in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt.

A new online platform is to enable people to exchange their ancestry seeds. The only request by the Seed Exchange Network is that a sum of seeds be reserved for exchange with other people.

Among the films to be shown in this year’s Filmekimi festival are recent works by master directors such as Ken Loach, Pedro Almodovar, Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Thomas Vinterberg and Ron Howard.

The European Federation of Journalists has made a call for the immediate release of two Evrensel reporters, Uğur and Polat, who have been in detention for 15 days without contact with the outside world.

In a report on the Sur district of Diyarbakır, the HDP has said that 90 civilians and 71 security staff have lost their lives and that historical buildings in the district have been destroyed in the curfews and operations.

Three soldiers have been killed and four injured in a rocket attack on a Turkish tank in southern Al-Rai.

The European Court of Human Rights has passed judgement on three cases of extrajudicial killing in two different police-military operations. Turkey has been sentenced to pay compensation for having violated “the right to life”.

TTB, TİHV, SES and the Education Union have said, “Coup investigations must be carried out delicately within the legal framework, and those who haven’t been determined to have solid links with the coup must be returned to their duties,” referring to sacked public sector staff.

While nine of 11 distributors who were detained in a raid launched on Azadiya Welat’s headquarters have been released, Arap Turan and Ferit Toprak been arrested.

Archaeologists are hoping to make 2,800 year-old seeds discovered in an excavation in Van grow again. The head of the project believes that the seeds would most probably grow again if they have become carbonized on their own.

“We saw the problems that Turkey was facing because of the events in Syria,” said Russian President Putin. “One does not need to be an analyst to understand what is going on.”

According to the August 2016 Corporate Murders report by the Occupational Health and Safety Council, at least 1,250 workers lost their lives in the first eight months of the year.

An objection raised against Özgür Gündem daily Publishing Consultant Board member, novelist and columnist Aslı Erdoğan’s arrest has been overruled today by İstanbul 5th Criminal Court of Justice.

In the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) main case, heard in Diyarbakır, the court has ruled that HDP deputies must be brought to the court by force.

50 volunteers including politicians and artists have begun an indefinite hunger strike without rotation, demanding a meeting with Öcalan within the framework of the legal rules.

Two soldiers have lost their lives in a clash which broke out between soldiers and members of the PKK in the operations carried out in the rural area of Çukurca district in Hakkari this morning.

Former İstanbul Security Director Hüseyin Çapkın has been arrested as a part of the investigation into the FETÖ/PYD’s alleged presence in public sector.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has said, “What is the harm in one of Öcalan’s attorneys having a brief meeting in İmralı?” in response to Minister Bozdağ saying “There is no problem with PKK Leader Öcalan’s security”.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said: “Baseless information is being circulated around Abdullah Öcalan’s health and security,” denying that there was any problem with either.

Three soldiers have been killed, 20 others been injured in the clash broke out between soldiers and PKK members.