Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against about 30 Kurdish politicians due to “performing activity on behalf of PKK.”
The indictment prepared against Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Eren Erdem with the allegation that he aids the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) was accepted by Istanbul 35th Assize Court.
Former Minister of Justice and Association to Support Contemporary Life Chairwoman Aysel Çelikel, Hrant Dink Foundation Chairwoman Rakel Dink, former Boğaziçi University rectors Üstün ergüder and Ayşe Soysal, former Istanbul Bar Association Chairmen Turgut Kazan and Yücel Sayman, as well as former diplomat Murat Özçelik called for the release of Anadolu Culture Executive Board Chairman, human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala, who is arrested since 1 November 2017.
Educator Acun Karadağ had been protesting in front of the Human Rights Monument on Yüksel Street since November 2016 to get his job back after being dismissed from profession with an emergency decree.
Preparing regular annual reports on rights violations, Human Rights Association (IHD) launched the data for the past 16 years.
Established to decide on the objections against dismissals from public service and shut down institutions within the State of Emergency declared after the coup attempt in 2016, the State of Emergency Applications Monitoring Commission has concluded 17 thousand applications so far.
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office prepared a summary against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP Garo Paylan due to his expressions on the Armenian Genocide.
Azadiya Welat Newspaper’s Managing Editor Aydın Atar was sentenced to 6 years and four months of imprisonment due to ‘illegal organization propaganda.’
Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was previously dismissed from Ankara University with an emergency decree, stood trial due to ‘insulting the President’ with his social media posts.
Journalist, writer and activist Nurcan Baysal received this year’s Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders Under Risk.