The penalties against three People’s Communist Party of Turkey (HTKP) members, convicted of ‘insulting the President’ due to the poster they hung, were reversed by the 18th Penal Department of the Court of Appeals.
International Press Institute (IPI) started a campaign “I Subscribe” to support independent journalists in Turkey.
On the last day of the 2017-2018 academic year, high school students organized a protest in Kadıköy, Istanbul with the slogan, “Report cards are yours, the future is ours.”
Constitutional Court (AYM) issued a right violation on freedom of expression in the case of the citizen who faced both a lawsuit of compensation and a criminal lawsuit due to reacting against former Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek’s statements on abortion.
Çağdaş Ses news website editor journalist Ece Sevim Öztürk was taken into custody at 02:30 in the night.
Human Rights Association (IHD) and Independent Election Monitoring Platform launched their report compiling violations before the elections.
The European Union (EU) Turkey Delegation made a written statement and indicated that arrested human rights advocates in Turkey must be provided with the right to fair trial in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the precedents of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the basis of the principle of presumption of innocence.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was sentenced to a total of 197 thousand TL compensation after announcing unlawful money transactions by President Erdoğan and his relatives to the Isle of Man with documents of proof.
A lawsuit was filed against Cumhuriyet Newspaper reporter Canan Coşkun following her coverage of lawyers testifying at the Prosecutor’s Office on 20 September 2017 after being taken into custody within an investigation against DHKP-C, with the title, “14 lawyers of Nuriye and Semih arrested.”