The proceeding of 13 defendants, 11 of them on pre-trial detention, started at Istanbul 23rd Assize Court.
The lawsuit of ‘insult’ filed by Van Governor Murat Zorluoğlu against journalist Oktay Candemir due to the expression, “almond-shaped mustache,” was concluded.
The application of Cembeli Erdem, who was shot in the back by the police in Diyarbakır in 2010, was concluded at the Constitutional Court.
Petrol-Labour Union decided for a strike following the lack of consensus in the mass contract negotiations at Soda Industry Inc. in Mersin.
The indictment against the 21 arrested Gün Printing employees was completed. A police operation was conducted on Özgürlükçü Demokrasi Newspaper and the printing house of the newspaper, Gün Printing, on March 29.
An investigation was filed against Asst. Prof. Dr. Bülent Şık, who was previously dismissed from Akdeniz University with an emergency decree.
Turkey has invited the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Turkey on June 24.
Journalist İrem Afşin announced that she was harassed by police officers at a subway exit in Istanbul after being asked for her identity card.
BirGün newspaper was given late to arrested People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş on the day his interview with the newspaper was published.
Ministry of Health dismissed medical doctor Ali Sarıtepe from public service due to a social media post he made in 2016 after 23 years of experience as a family general practitioner in Istanbul.