A death threat against the Kurdish politician Miroğlu was posted on the website of the HPG, an armed wing of the outlawed PKK. The article signed by Toprak Cengiz read, "If he continues like this, we will put a red line into use! Miroğlu will be dead then!"

Turkish and foreign politicians discussed violence caused by homophobia in the "Meeting to Commemorate the Trans Individuals who Became Victims of Hate Crime". Turkish politicians criticized the lack of political support for the struggle of LGBTT individuals.

In a meeting on local media organized by the Turkish Journalists Association and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Deputy PM Arınç said, "We think that a media with bans and censorship can only exist in oppressive regimes and i a banana republic".

The Beyoğlu Public Chief Prosecution opened a case against five police officers for alleged torture of 2 young people taken into custody on1 May 2009. In an important decision, the Bakırköy Court decided to include former Deputy Chief of Police Özsavaş in the case.

DİHA reporter Açıkyer received 10-month prison term under charges of "spreading propaganda for the PKK" because he attended a symposium of the pro-Kurdish DTP. The court handed down various sentences to13 defendants.

In the second hearing of the "Bayrampaşa trial" related to the "return to life" operation, the court decided to obtain the results of a previous probe into then Minister of Justice Türk, Minister of the Interior Tantan, Gendarmerie Commander Yalman and other officials.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Psychiatric Association of Turkey drew attention to measures to prevent violence against women and improve their situation. Women in Istanbul and Ankara were in the streets to call for their rights.

Pro-Kurdish DTP member Alınak is tried together with another 93 people under "propaganda" charges on the grounds of a critical press release issued after the ban of the political party. Alınak will apply to the ECHR for the right to a defence in Kurdish as his mother tongue.

The Trabzon 2nd Criminal Court applied for a merger of the trial against Ali Öz, prosecuted for allegedly disregarding crucial information obtained prior to the Hrant Dink murder, and the trial against 7 gendarmerie officers heard at the Trabzon 1st High Criminal Court.

44 members of IFEX, among them the Initiative Against Thought Crimes and the IPS Communication Foundation, urged UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet to take measures regarding violence against women who struggle for freedom of expression and are exposed to violence and oppression due to their gender.

39 gendarmerie officers are tried in the case regarding the "return to life" operation which left 30 people dead in Turkish prisons in 2000. 27 out of the 28 defendants that appeared at court claimed that they did not remember anything.

The Prosecutor of Erzurum Şanal filed a compensation claim against journalist İlhan Taşçı on the grounds of his book "Justice in a gown". The prosecutor just recently opened a trial against journalist Saymaz based on his book "The postmodern Jihad".

Milliyet newspaper employees Durukan and Çakkalkurt were acquitted of charges of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization" on the grounds of one of their news items and so were Günlük daily officials Koçali and Pekgöz who were tried for the same reason.

By majority vote, RTÜK imposed a heavy monetary fine to the news channel CNN Türk on the grounds of a statement made by Kurdish politician Özçelik in the program "What's going on". He had described the militant PKK as a "political movement".

18 students were sentenced to 1 year and 3 month each behind bars because of criticizing PM Erdoğan at the opening ceremony of the Istanbul Technical University. They had voiced their protest in slogans and banners.

Atalay, mayor of the south-eastern province of Batman, was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for alleged spreading of propaganda for an illegal organization. Gençdal from the Group for a Peaceful and Democratic Solution received a 20-month sentence.

"Custody, detention and oppression do not intimidate us" was written on the banners of 300 protestors who criticized the detention of 13 left wing activities in a demonstration in Istanbul. The members of legal political groups were arrested two months ago and are still in prison.

Political Scientist Gerger said that Turkey's role within the NATO did not change after the NATO summit last weekend. The summit was marked by the agreement on a missile shield over Europe without defining Turkey's neighbour Iran as an explicit enemy.

Two Taraf newspaper writers are in the eye of the judiciary once again. The Ministry of Justice issued permission for an investigation about journalist Kütahyalı. Kurdish politician and journalist Miroğlu is tried for expressing his thoughts on the Kurdish question.

The Prosecution announced that no arrest warrant was issued in the name of Tuncay Güney, a mysterious key figure of the Eregenekon trial, because he benefited from the law of repentance.