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An emergency medical technician, who fulfilled the necessary requirements to be assigned to a public institution but could not pass the security investigation that was put in practice during the State of Emergency period and later remained in practice.

The court complied with the decree issued by the Constitutional Court (AYM) on the access ban brought on the news article published on Bianet in 2006 and removed the access ban against it.

Journalist-writer Ayşe Düzkan was imprisoned following the sentence issued against her due to “illegal organization propaganda” after participating in the “Substitute Editing-In-Chief” campaign of previously shut-down Özgür Gündem Daily.

Murat K. was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment due to a social media post on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in which he used the expression, “The greatest demon the 20th century has ever seen.”

Amnesty International started a petition campaign, entitled, “The ban against LGBTI+ events in Ankara must end,” calling everyone to defend the freedom of LGBTI+s to peacefully organise and hold demonstrations.

The garbage worker fired by Kağıthane Municipality due to “homosexual relationship” won the reemployment lawsuit.

A lawsuit was filed against 41 lawyers five years after their protest of the court board during the “KCK Case” in Diyarbakır in 2014.

Imprisonment sentences were issued against lawyers Turan Hançerli, Gökmen Yeşil and Zülfikar Erden due to “violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations” and “resisting the police” after providing legal support in possible rights violations during the protests organized in Avcılar on the day Berkin Elvan lost his life.

Ankara 8th Criminal Judicature of Peace brought an access ban on 56 different URLs with the news on Gündem Daily’s Bitlis reporter Ferhat Tepe, who was kidnapped and killed in 1993.

The State of Emergency Monitoring Committee was established within the Prime Ministry to evaluate objections against legal actions taken with Statutory Decrees during the State of Emergency and was later bound to the Presidency with the new Presidential system.