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The statement to be made in Diyarbakır on International Mother Language Day was prevented by the police due to the Governorate ban on events organized in public spaces.

The speeches given by MPs at the GNAT General Assembly for the International Mother Language Day could not pass the barriers.

A lawsuit was filed against Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Association (PSAKD) Diyarbakır Chairman Atty. Cafer Koluman due to ‘insulting the President’ by reacting against the October 10, Ankara Train Station Massacre on the social media.

The lawsuit filed against Aydınlık Daily’s former Editor-In-Chief Mustafa İlker Yücel and employee Orhan Ceyhun Bozkurt due to charges related to the coverage of Turkish National Intelligence (MIT) Trucks stopped on their way to Syria, was abated.

In the reasoned decision on the verdict on October 10, Ankara Train Station Massacre, which led to 103 people losing their lives, the court persisted the attitude that would cover up public responsibility in the prosecution process; ignoring the neglect and responsibility of the government on the massacre.

The criminal complaint made three years ago on the murderers of military school student Murat Tekin, who was lynched and killed on Boğaziçi Bridge on the next day after the July 15 coup attempt was concluded with non-prosecution.

An indictment was prepared against 16 people, including businessman and rights advocate Osman Kavala, who is arrested for 478 within the investigation on Gezi Park protests, as well as Yiğit Aksakoğlu, who was detained and arrested on November 16, 2018.

Artı Gerçek reporter Derya Okatan, who interviewed the young woman harassed by a police officer, was detained.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu defended the police officer after the harassment faced by a young woman who was detained during a protest in Kızılay, Ankara.

Rapper Sercan İpekçioğlu, known with his alias Ezhel, was previously acquitted in the lawsuit that he was arrested in remand due to encouraging drug use in their song lyrics.