Diyarbakır 4th High Criminal Court rejected the release of jailed Kurdish deputies Faysal Sarıyıldız, Selma Irmak and Kemal Aktaş despite the prosecutor’s opinion.

Bakırköy 9th Assize Court sentenced shooter policemen of Ferhat Gerçek case to 2.5 year of prison. On the other hand, Gerçek himself received 3.5 years of prison of prison for “damaging a police vehicle and insulting policemen”.

In 2013, the number of content removal requests Google received from Turkey increased by 966%, compared to 68 percent worldwide.

Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office officially requested RTÜK and TIB to take precautions on the graft probe.

Despite enjoying a fair bit of local support, local human rights organizations (LHROs) in the Global South are still largely dependent on foreign funds. To better tap into local resource pools, LHROs will have to rethink their funding strategies, and perhaps reconsider some of their activities.

Sabah newspaper laid off its prominent columnist Nazlı Ilıcak for “editorial disagreements”.

Peace and Democracy Party Youth Assembly informed that their Facebook page has recently been closed down.

While chief prosecutor Çolakkadı announced that the prosecutors on the corruption probe case were not dismissed, police authorities said they have dismissed the aforementioned police commissioners.

The government often accuses Turkey’s human rights groups of doing the work of “foreign powers,” which scares off local donors. But when rights groups seek foreign funding, they get attacked for taking “imperialist money.”

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish deputies spent the night at the parliament hall within a hunger strike to protest the recent rejection of release request for jailed deputies.

The European Court of Human Right found Switzerland guilty of violating the freedom of expression for convicting Doğu Perinçek when he denied “Armenian Genocide”.

Fiscal Crimes Police detained 22 suspects including construction mogul Ali Ağaoğlu, Fatih district mayor Demir and sons of three cabinet ministers.