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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Turkey Representative and Bianet’s Media Monitoring Report preparator Erol Önderoğlu received the 2018 Freedom of Speech and Expression Award of the Roosevelt Foundation with a ceremony organized in the Netherlands.

Stage actor Barış Atay was taken into custody after reacting against the “apology” of Senior Counsellor of the Prime Ministry Yusuf Yerkel, who kicked a miner during a protest organized after the Soma mine disaster.

Days before the election holiday of the Parliament, 28 new summaries arrived at the Parliament for the legislative immunity of Parliament members to be taken off.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Rectorate did not allow the activities to be organized by three different student clubs.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office claimed Artı TV Ankara Representative Sibel Hürtaş and Mezopotamya Agency reporter Hayri Demir to be penalized with imprisonment sentences up to 10 years and six months due to their social media posts and publications on the Afrin operation.

Ministry of Justice Directorate General of Criminal Records and Statistics announced the criminal statistics of 2017.

The news published on Cumhuriyet Newspaper on 1 March 2018, entitled, “Gendarmerie prevents those protesting the massacre of 40 thousand trees for Erdoğan’s ‘summer palace’ with a ‘dumper’” was banned to access.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a statement on the situation of the academia in Turkey under the conditions of State of Emergency.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came together with Anadolu Agency and students studying within the Young Talent Development Project of TRT World at the Intercontinental Hotel within his visit to the U.K.

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that Turkey has violated “the torture and mistreatment ban” in the application of Mehmet Uğraş Vatandaş; deciding for 12 thousand Euros of indemnity to be paid.