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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.

Security General Directorate (EGM) made a criminal complaint against Van Bar Association after the association’s denouncement and complaint at the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on the torture faced by three children, who were proven to have tortured under custody with a medical report on February 15.

Ankara 2nd Administrative Court revoked the decision of the Turkish Union of Bar Associations for Yasin Bedir, who was dismissed from Dicle University with an emergency decree due to being a signatory of the “Peace Petition”, to work as a lawyer.

The prosecution of journalist Murat Güreş continued at Gaziantep 9th Criminal Court of First Instance.

IHA reporter Coşkun Sağlamdin reported the hotel construction next to the fairy chimneys in Cappadocia, one of the most important touristic locations in Turkey.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Turkey guilty of many charges, including “violation of the right to fair trial” and “period of arrest”, in the application of Ruşen Bayar, who is currently in Tekirdağ Prison.

Journalism was attempted to be prevented with detainments, attacks and threat in 2018 as well; media blackouts were brought and fines were issued.

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) sentenced Turkey to 10 thousand Euros of compensation in the application on ill convict Kemal Gömi due to “violating the torture and mistreatment ban.”

The imprisonment sentences issued against six newspaper executives and workers, who were convicted within the Cumhuriyet Daily Case, were finalised by a Court of Cassation decree.