State of Emergency Applications Monitoring Commission issued the first decrees on the institutions and organizations, which were shut down with emergency decrees.
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Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Sebahat Tuncel was sentenced to five months of imprisonment due to a demonstration march she participated in 2012.
The Constitutional Court decided that the administrative fine sentenced against five people due to stopping the traffic by participating in the protest demonstration organized in May 2014 in Eskişehir for the anniversary of the execution of Deniz Gezmiş and his friends was a violation and that such actions must not be penalized since they are “peaceful, within the tolerable limit.”
A second lawsuit of compensation was filed against journalist Çiğdem Toker for 1.5 million TLs.
After the arrest of rapper Ezhel due to ‘encouraging drug use,’ the hashtag #FreeEzhel became the top trend in Turkey on Twitter.
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Izmir MP Ertuğrul Kürkçü was acquitted in the first hearing of the case he was on trial due to his speeches as he was the Mersin MP.
The lawsuit against 11 people, including Labour Party (EMEP) Balıkesir Provincial Chairman Cemil Tosunoğlu, on the protest organized in Balıkesir to support hunger-striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, was concluded.
The 17th hearing of the case on the enforced disappearance of 11 civilians in 1993 in Kulp district of Diyarbakır was held at Ankara 7th Assize Court.
Community Centers Central Executive Board (MYK) member Kutay Meriç was acquitted in the first hearing of the lawsuit filed against him due to ‘terrorist organization propaganda.’
