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Munzur Culture and Nature Festival, planned to be organized for the 18th time this year, was banned by Tunceli Governorate.

Diyarbakır Governorate did not permit investigations to be opened against 72 police officers on duty at the crime scene during the murder of Kemal Kurkut, who was shot dead by the police during the Newroz celebration in 2017.

Debates continue on the amendment that was hastily proposed at the Parliament for State of Emergency applications to be made continuous after the end of the two-year emergency period.

Taking the floor on behalf of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) during the debates on the law draft involving new regulations on the fight against terrorism at GNAT General Assembly, Ahmet Şık could not complete his speech due to the attack of Justice and Development Party (AKP) Izmir MP Alpay Özalan.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan due to her speech, criticizing the investigations against HDP MPs.

Ege University Rectorate charged the material damages caused during the operation against students, who were protesting the work disaster in Soma with 301 miners dead, to the students.

Hürriyet Daily’s reader representative Faruk Bildirici announced that the number of access bans brought by Criminal Judicatures of Peace against the newspaper’s content since 2014 has reached 2047.

Following the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era, July 24th was being celebrated as the “Press Holiday” to honour the removal of censorship; whereas is now celebrated as the “Day on the Fight for Press Freedom” with the return of censorship following the 1971 military coup.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the amendment predicting the continuity of State of Emergency applications for at least three more years after the revocation of the State of Emergency is “ending the supremacy of law.”

23-year-old Safiye İnci, who was taken into custody due to insulting Atatürk in the video she recorded to send to a friend, was arrested due to ‘violating the Law Concerning Crimes Committed Against Atatürk No. 5816.’