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Ministry of Health dismissed medical doctor Ali Sarıtepe from public service due to a social media post he made in 2016 after 23 years of experience as a family general practitioner in Istanbul.
Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against about 30 Kurdish politicians due to “performing activity on behalf of PKK.”
Preparing regular annual reports on rights violations, Human Rights Association (IHD) launched the data for the past 16 years.
Established to decide on the objections against dismissals from public service and shut down institutions within the State of Emergency declared after the coup attempt in 2016, the State of Emergency Applications Monitoring Commission has concluded 17 thousand applications so far.
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office prepared a summary against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP Garo Paylan due to his expressions on the Armenian Genocide.
Azadiya Welat Newspaper’s Managing Editor Aydın Atar was sentenced to 6 years and four months of imprisonment due to ‘illegal organization propaganda.’
Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was previously dismissed from Ankara University with an emergency decree, stood trial due to ‘insulting the President’ with his social media posts.
Journalist, writer and activist Nurcan Baysal received this year’s Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders Under Risk.
Adana 8th High Criminal Court issued the acquittal of Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Mehmet Arslan, who was on trial with the allegations of ‘illegal organization membership’ and ‘making illegal organization propaganda’ with his phone calls.
The 14th Nonviolent Action Workshop, organized by the Initiative for Freedom of Expression in collaboration with the Nonviolence Center, is being organized with the topic of “arrested students.”