At her hearing yesterday, on February 9, jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Güven said that the Turkish translation of her speeches in Kurdish, which are cited as “criminal evidence” in her case file, is full of mistakes.

A confidentiality order has been imposed on the file of Kurdish film director Selamo, who has been detained in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir. Selamo will remain in custody for four days upon the warrant of the prosecutor’s office.

In his video confessions, exiled mob boss Sedat Peker had described Falyalı as a key figure in cocaine trafficking between Colombia and Turkey. He was also accused of being involved in illegal betting.

A petition has been launched: “The presumption of innocence is an absolute basic right. This right is constantly violated by people and institutions such as the President, Justice Minister and Interior Minister. This right is a matter of existence for legists.”

Amid ongoing increases in the prices of fuel oil, electricity and basic consumption goods among many others, 11 metropolitan mayors from the main opposition CHP have reiterated their requests in order to protect citizens from price hikes.

The administration of Ankara Bar has not shared its Human Rights Center’s report on torture allegations concerning Ankara Security Directorate. Six members of the center have resigned. Lawyers say similar incidents have been going on for some time.

Deniz Yücel, the former Turkey correspondent of Die Welt who spent a year behind bars in Turkey, has been given a judicial fine for “insulting” Hasan Yılmaz, the former İstanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor and the current Vice Justice Minister.

Put on trial again for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” with the news and pictures that she posted on social media, journalist Selda Manduz has been sentenced to 1 year, 6 months in prison by the Kars 2nd High Criminal Court.

Making a statement about the trial over the massacre of the Dedeoğulları family in Konya, the HDP has raised concerns that the court has been “systematically rejecting the lawyers’ requests for disclosing the truth.”

The HDP submitted a motion concerning the financial supervision of Mardin's Artuklu Municipality. The motion was accepted as several AKP members abstained from the vote and one supported it.

The Constitutional Court has concluded that “the right to personal liberty and security” of journalist Cemil Uğur has been violated. The journalist spent six months in pre-trial detention after reporting on torture in Turkey’s Van province.

Over his tweet allegedly about the health condition of President Erdoğan, who has tested positive for COVID-19, former national swimmer Derya Büyükuncu has also been permanently deprived of his rights by the Turkish Swimming Federation.

One of the wounded is in serious condition. Authorities say it was probably a natural gas explosion.

Amid a days-long power cut in the city, Isparta Governor Ömer Seymenoğlu has been removed from office on the stated grounds that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Central governor Osman Kaymak has been appointed in his place.

The Council of State has halted the execution of the resolution reportedly laying the ground for the construction of the Presidential Complex in Ankara’s Beştepe.

Academic Kaan Öztürk from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering has announced that appointed rector Naci İnci has terminated his course: “The turn to be laid off from Boğaziçi has apparently come to me.”

While Kocaeli University Hospital concluded that Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk is not in a state to stay in prison, the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution said that she is. Tuğluk was sent to the Institution again for a third medical report.

Pınar Ö. has been placed under house arrest after being detained as part of the investigation launched into the social media posts about the health condition of President Erdoğan and his spouse Emine Erdoğan, who have tested positive for COVID-19.

President and AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that upon mild symptoms, he and his spouse Emine Erdoğan had themselves tested for COVID-19 today and they are having a mild Omicron case.

Main opposition CHP MP Antmen notes that Turkey recognized the ECtHR’s jurisdiction in 1989: “Erdoğan is acting contrary to the Constitution. He wants Turkey to be kicked out of the CoE and wants to make the country a quagmire of Middle East."