Announcing his opinion as to the accusations in the lawsuit filed against journalist Hasan Cemal due to an article that he wrote three years ago, the prosecutor has demanded that Cemal be penalized for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.”

Mardin Co-Mayors Ahmet Türk and Figen Altındağ and Diyarbakır Co-Mayor Mızraklı received their certificates of election. Alökmen Uyanık, the other co-mayor in Diyarbakır, is not given her certificate upon the rejection of Supreme Election Council.

Releasing a statement regarding 20-year-old Hantaş who was shot to death by police in Diyarbakır, the Diyarbakır Bar Association has demanded that “the investigation into the death of Hantaş be conducted in a fair, impartial and independent manner.”

The Extinction Rebellion campaigners have staged protests around the world to draw attention to the “sixth mass extinction.” In Turkey, demonstrators demanded the government to put the Paris Climate Agreement into effect.

Sabiha Temizkan, the daughter of HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven who has been on the 160th day of her hunger strike: “My mother has a legal demand and instead of meeting this demand, they are watching her wasting away day by day.”

The third recount in the Maltepe district that began after the application of the ruling AKP has been stopped by the Supreme Election Council (YSK). Recounts will continue in the remaining ballot boxes.

Leila Khaled, a symbolic figure of Palestinian resistance, visited HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on a hunger strike for 159 days. Addressing President Erdoğan, Khaled said, “Don’t let people die just because they defend human rights.”

University student Berkay Ustabaş who spent one year behind bars because of attending the funeral of Berkin Elvan has been sentenced to five months in prison, and this sentence has also been adjourned.

Being charged with causing the death of 20-year-old Recep Hantaş in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, one police officer has been arrested by the court on duty where he was referred. The other officer has been released on probation.

A new report on air pollution in Turkey reveals that the authorities "try to solve the problem of air pollution by reducing the number of stations that measure the pollution."

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the candidate of Nation Alliance for Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, has commented on the recounting of votes in Maltepe: “It was you who demanded recounting of votes and it was again you who tried to prevent it. What is your purpose?”

The opposition's winning-but-not-yet-mandated candidate for the İstanbul mayorship, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was at the football games of "the Big Three," Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş, on the weekend. Supporters welcomed him with slogans.

Erol Önderoğlu has made his defense in the tenth hearing of the case filed against Önderoğlu, Nesin and Korur-Fincancı for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for January 2019. Accordingly, the rate of unemployment across Turkey has increased to 14.7 percent, accounting for a total of 4 million 668 thousand people without a job.

The "Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation" has been founded in the memory of late Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Elçi, who was killed in the southeastern city in 2015.

Queer Olympix, which is the first Queer Olympics of Turkey, will be held in İstanbul on August 23 and 25. Being held for the first time three years ago, this year’s Queer Olympics will take place in Heybeliada and Kalamış in İstanbul.

The debate on İstanbul elections continued over the weekend, with the main opposition saying it expects to be given the certificate of election today, while AKP announced it will appeal for a repeat election.

The recounting of votes in the district of Maltepe in İstanbul has been stopped by the District Election Council. While at least 400 ballot boxes will be counted again, the number of balloting committees has also been decreased from 12 to two.

According to the allegations, sitting in Sümerpark in Diyarbakır, 20-year-old Recep Hantaş has lost his life in a fire opened by police. The Governorship has released a statement and announced that two officers have been referred to court for arrest.

The Supreme Election Council has mandated the ruling AKP candidate in a district in the southeastern province of Van because the winning candidate by the HDP was previously discharged upon a statutory decree.