After examining the 173-page preliminary defense of the HDP in the trial seeking its closure, Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin will pronounce his opinion as to the accusations within a month.

PEN Turkey has criticized the investigation against Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk over his novel “Nights of Plague” for the second time: “Don’t put Orhan Pamuk on trial by inventing nonexistent crimes; don’t make Atatürk sad.”

HDP’s Züleyha Gülüm, a lawyer of the Kobanî case against 108 politicians, has spoken to bianet about the decision of the defendants and their lawyers to not attend the hearings in protest against the failure to hold a fair trial.

In the wake of his remarks on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, lawyer Kuzu requests that Eymür, a former head of the counterterrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization, be heard as a witness in the Midyat JİTEM case.

Lawyer Sevimli has spoken to bianet about the ruling of the appeals court which has upheld the acquittal of soldiers in the trial over the “Operation Return to Life” in Ümraniye Prison, where the “Bora” and “Atmaca” military plans were carried out.

With her two sons and spouse killed in an attack by the relatives of an AKP MP and one son arrested, Emine Şenyaşar is now also investigated for “insulting” the police with her statement on the 24th day of her ‘justice watch’ in Urfa.

The labor and occupational organizations DİSK, KESK, TMMOB and TTB have announced that they will hold a joint protest in the capital city of Ankara on November 14 and say, “We cannot make a living" amid the 2022 budget talks at the Parliament.

HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar talked about the closure case filed against the party at his weekly group meeting: “We expect the Constitutional Court to dismiss the closure case without proceeding to an examination as to the merits.”

The court has issued an arrest warrant for defendant police officer Songul E.K., whose testimony hasn't been taken.

Main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, “In a world where the climate crisis is so widely discussed, you will keep on betraying İstanbul. Those who bid in the tender for Canal İstanbul project will pay a heavy price.”

The same prosecutor who covered up the investigation now seeks a jail sentence of up to 300 years against him, Sedat Peker has said.

The “e-hearing” system, which allows lawyers to attend the trials at civil courts via video conference, has entered into force all across Turkey as of November 9, 2021.

The anniversary of the establishment of the YÖK by the then military government has been protested.

Minister Gül says, “Our mentality is not based on ‘doing something, then letting the law follow us’, but on ‘letting the law walk ahead of us and adjusting our pace accordingly’.” Minister Soylu previously said, “Demolish it; let the court ruling follow us.”

The replacement of the presiding judge means a special court has been established for the Kobanî case, which is against the Constitution, the defense attorneys have argued.

“If we are talking about a problem of survival, the ones whose divide and polarize this country are jeopardizing the survival of the country,” says DEVA Party leader Babacan: “Kurdish is still written down as an ‘unknown language’ in the minutes of the Parliament.”

Kılıçdaroğlu has sent letters to all diplomatic missions in Turkey in their own languages, warning them against the ecological destruction to be caused by the project.

A petition submitted to the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has argued that Pamuk, in his novel “Nights of Plague”, insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic, thereby provoking the public to hatred and hostility.

Eymür says he doesn't regret what he did, and it's "legitimate" for the state to commit such practices. He criticizes those who did these for "personal interests" though.

The number of women working at the ministries of environment and urbanization, energy and natural resources, treasury and finance, interior, agriculture and forestry and trade is lower than half of the men.