The first hearing of the case filed against 14 people, who participated in the protest organized at Ankara University Cebeci Campus on 10 February 2017 to support academics who were dismissed with emergency decrees, was held.
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The prosecutor found scarves and strings with yellow, red and green colours as crime elements in the lawsuit against 24 people, six of them arrested, with imprisonment claims for up to eight years due to participating in the funeral of Kamber Morkoç after he died in Ardahan due to the fire opened by the soldiers.
The summary judgment of the lawsuit filed against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı MPs Dirayet Taşdemir and Berdan Öztürk with the allegation of ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ was held at Erzurum 2nd Assize Court.
The first hearing of the case filed against 18 lawyers, who performed a sit-in protest and made press statements at Beyoğlu Tünel to point to the 78-day curfew and civilian deaths in Cizre district of Şırnak, was held at Istanbul 36th Assize Court.
The United Nations (UN) made a new call for Turkey on the State of Emergency before the early elections on June 24.
Shortly after the speech of Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said, “In case one day our nation says ‘OK, enough,’ only then we will move aside” during the AKP group meeting yesterday, the hashtag “TAMAM” [“OK”] became the first rank worldwide trend on the social media.
This year’s Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Expression Awards were announced. The awards will be handed with a ceremony to be organized tonight at the Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul building at 19:00.
Artist Pınar Aydınlar was convicted of commemorating the founder of Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) İbrahim Kaypakkaya, one of the 1968 generation leaders, in a concert she took part in in Tunceli five years ago.
The proceeding of nine people, including Halkın Nabzı Newspaper Editor-In-Chief İshak Karataş, started at Istanbul 28th Assize Court.
The lawsuit filed against 18 people, including Adana Bar Association Prison Monitoring Commission Chairman Atty. Tugay Bek and People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Adana Provincial Co-Chair Gülseren Tural, was concluded.