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.
23-year-old Safiye İnci, who was taken into custody due to insulting Atatürk in the video she recorded to send to a friend, was arrested due to ‘violating the Law Concerning Crimes Committed Against Atatürk No. 5816.’
Seven of the participants in the protest organized in 2015 in Izmir against the murder of Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairman Tahir Elçi were convicted of ‘insulting the President’ due to the slogans they chanted.
GNAT Human Rights Monitoring Committee Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu prepared a report on the right violations in June.
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.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the amendment predicting the continuity of State of Emergency applications for at least three more years after the revocation of the State of Emergency is “ending the supremacy of law.”
The first hearing of the case filed against 11 politicians was held.