The first action of Mustafa Varank after being assigned as Minister of Industry and Trade was to bring a media blackout on the news related to himself.
Rapper Ömer Sercan İpekçioğlu, publicly known as “Ezhel,” has been arrested in May with the allegation of ‘abetting the use of drugs’ and was acquitted in the first hearing of the case against him after staying in prison for 26 days.
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) debated the legality of the provision, “Any person who aids and abets an organisation knowingly and willingly, although he does not belong to the structure of that organisation, shall also be sentenced for the offence of being a member of that organisation” within Article 220/7 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) in the application of Democratic People’s Party (DEHAP) Batman Central District Chairman Abdulcelil İmret.
The proceeding of judge Tuncay Elarslan, who was banned from profession following the July 15 Coup Attempt, started at Gaziantep 9th Assize Court.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan was sentenced to 30 thousand TL moral compensation due to his expression “fascist dictator” to describe Erdoğan.
Four of the students, who were taken into custody due to ‘insulting the President’ with the banner they carried during the graduation ceremony at the Middle East Technical University (METU), were arrested by the Criminal Judicature of Peace they were transferred to.
Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak issued an access ban on the solidarity calls made by Turkish Journalists Association (TGS) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Twitter via court decree after filing a lawsuit against Cumhuriyet reporter Pelin Ünker due to reporting the names involved in the “Panama Papers.”
Kaos GL Association carried the indefinite LGBTI+ event ban issued in November 2017 within Ankara to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Ankara University (AU) student Mehmet Can Tan was sentenced to reprimand after reciting a ‘Cow Prayer’ during the traditional ‘Cow Celebration’ of the university’s Faculty of Political Sciences.
In the application of lawyer İshak Sağlam, who was convicted in the ‘Hizbullah Case’ in Diyarbakır, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) sentenced Turkey to pay a total of 6,500 Euros of compensation due to violation of the right to fair trial, indicating that the proceeding was not concluded in a reasonable period of time.