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Discharged from public service and fined over her press statements during her protests “to get her job back”, Bozkurt faces an attachment of 281 thousand lira on her bank account. She notes that courts have already cancelled these fines.

Application of İHD’s Öğrü, who was fined for 25 times on the pretext of “making a statement for the press 30 meters close to the courthouse” ban imposed by Adana Governorship, to the ECtHR has been concluded; Turkey has been found guilty of violation of right to protest.

Human rights activists spearheaded by the Nor Zartonk Initiative gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square to protest the release of Kıvanç Ağaoğlu pending trial, prior to the deliverance of the final verdict. Ağaoğlu had shot Sevag Balıkçı, a Turkish citizen of Armenian origin, to death while they were performing their mandatory military service.