The State of Emergency (OHAL) announced on July 21, 2016 following the military coup attempt and extended for seven times with three-month periods has ended on July 19, 2018. However, nothing has changed – for the latest omnibus bill No. 7145 replaced the State of Emergency (OHAL) with a Permanent State of Emergency (SOHAL) The State of Emergency, on the other hand, left two years full of custodies, arrests, preventions, dismissals, censorship, pressure, torture, shutdowns, impunity and rights violations behind.
Taking the floor on behalf of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) during the debates on the law draft involving new regulations on the fight against terrorism at GNAT General Assembly, Ahmet Şık could not complete his speech due to the attack of Justice and Development Party (AKP) Izmir MP Alpay Özalan.
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan due to her speech, criticizing the investigations against HDP MPs.
Ege University Rectorate charged the material damages caused during the operation against students, who were protesting the work disaster in Soma with 301 miners dead, to the students.
Hürriyet Daily’s reader representative Faruk Bildirici announced that the number of access bans brought by Criminal Judicatures of Peace against the newspaper’s content since 2014 has reached 2047.
Following the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, July 24th was being celebrated as the “Press Holiday” to honour the removal of censorship; whereas is now celebrated as the “Day on the Fight for Press Freedom” with the return of censorship following the 1971 military coup.
Constitutional Court (AYM) issued a right violation on three children who were convicted and were released with monitoring due to the press statement made by the Prime Minister upon his arrival in Adana.
Ministry of the Interior announced investigations started against 267 people due to their social media posts within the last week (July 16-23).
Leaflets were distributed in Izmir, Ankara and Osmaniye involving homophobic hate speech.
Nine different website URLs, including the ones of BirGün Daily and gazeteduvar.com.tr, were banned by Ankara 3rd Criminal Judicature of Peace after reporting the news of the train accident in Çorlu district of Tekirdağ with 24 people dead.