An investigation was opened against Fox TV primetime news anchor Fatih Portakal with the allegation of “FETÖ membership.”
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Gaziosmanpaşa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office created an indictment against theologist-writer Cemil Kılıç.
The investigation opened against model Didem Soydan was concluded with non-prosecution.
19 rights and professional organizations, including Ankara, Izmir and Diyarbakır Bar Associations, made a common declaration on the Gezi Park Case, calling for the immediate release of Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu.
The Constitutional Court (AYM) decided that the slogan, “Murderer police will give account” chanted by young people is not an element of crime.
Ankara Governorate did not allow the rally to be organized by Turkish Warfare Labour Union in Ankara on March 16th against the privatisation of Tank Tread Factory in Sakarya.
In the application of Özgür Gündem Daily owner Ali Gürbüz, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decşded that systematic lawsuits filed against journalists are tools for pressure despite their results, that they direct journalists towards self-censorship and violate freedom of expression.
Amnesty International started an urgent action campaign for the abatement of all charges imposed against 16 NGO representatives and for Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu to be released. Kavala and Aksakoğlu are arrested in remand within the Gezi Park Case.
Istanbul 3rd Criminal Judicature of Peace arrested 61-year-old Hamza Gökmen and 57-year-old Selahattin Gündüz, who were detained with a house rain on March 9th in Sancaktepe district of Istanbul.
Five people were sentenced to 7.5 years of imprisonment each and two were sentenced to 3 years and 9 months of imprisonment each within the lawsuit filed against the owner and employees of Gün Printing.