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Turkish Ministry of Justice did not announce 2018 statistics, whereas according to the data shared by the Ministry until 2017 reveal an increase in the number of total defendants and convictions issued related to “insulting the President” by 13 times under the three-year duty period of Erdoğan.

According to 2018 Activity Report of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), many incidents were not broadcasted through “media blackouts” following the authority given to the council to monitor internet broadcasts as well.

The march organized by “Workers’ Families Seeking Justice” for the past seven years at Taksim with the demand to declare April 28th “The Day of Mourning and Commemoration for Those Having Lost Their Lives in Work Murders” was not permitted this year.

A confidentiality order was brought on the investigation file on the death of Rabia Naz Vatan, who suspiciously lost her life in Eynesil district of Giresun.

Justice expected from the Constitutional Court did not come for two years.

The Constitutional Court (AYM) decided that the access ban brought on the news article published on BiaNet eight years ago, was “a violation of press freedom and freedom of expression.”

Former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who is arrested at Edirne Prison since November 2016, will remain arrested.

Former writers and executives of Cumhuriyet Daily, who were sentenced to imprisonment for less than five years and their conviction was recently finalised by the appeal court, were imprisoned again.

A lawsuit was filed against Arif Kocabıyık, who interviews people on the street on YouTube as “İlave TV” channel.

Çorlu 2nd Criminal Judicature of Peace denied the objection made against the verdict of non-prosecution for the train disaster that led to the deaths of 25 people in Çorlu.