According to a report released by the World Economic Forum, while Island has ranked the first in terms of gender equality, Yemen has ranked the last. As for Turkey, it has ranked better than 19 countries out of 149 others.

At the 28th İstanbul Heavy Penal Court, academic Gülçin Karabağ has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”; the announcement of the verdict has been suspended.

HDP Honorary Chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü has been sentenced to 2 years in prison due to the speech that he made during Newroz celebrations in Iğdır in 2016. The verdict will be considered by the Court of Appeal.

The Press Council has pointed to the possible negative outcomes of the recent amendments to the press cards regulation. In a written statement, the council has called for cancellation of the regulation.

Having been threatened by President Erdoğan, who addressed him by saying, “You cannot even find the chance to escape”, CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has responded, “Who are you to decide whether I will live or not? Who are you?”

Former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak, who has been arrested for more than two years, has gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has also been on a hunger strike in prison for 40 days.

Diren Coşkun, an LGBTI activist and transgender inmate from Diyarbakır, who was arrested for 17 months, has been released from prison.

Representatives from journalism organizations have commented on the threatening statements of President Erdoğan, who addressed TV anchor Fatih Portakal by saying, “If you don’t know your place, this nation will hit you in the back of your head.”

Erdoğan has threatened Fatih Portakal, whom he accuses of calling people to streets, saying “If you do not know your place, this nation will hit you in the back of your neck”. He has also repeated the claims that Gezi protesters entered a mosque with beer bottles.

Violence scars more than just the social fabric of our communities, more than tissues of our flesh, it scars our human souls, it dehumanizes us.

Prof. Dr. Abbas Vali has presented his statement of defense in company with an interpreter. The court board has adjourned his hearing to March 27, 2019 for the provision of his identity register and criminal record.

Berivan Bila, the student who has been released after getting arrested for an article that she wrote entitled “Journalism is not a Crime”, has told that she will not give up journalism.

Writer Hamide Yiğit has been sentenced to 7 months and 15 days in prison on charge of “openly denigrating the state and government of the Republic of Turkey.”

While Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu has shared a message after his meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad and said that they discussed “the situation of Yezidis”, Murad has written that they met “to discuss Turkish airstrikes in Sinjar.”

According to the statistics announced by TurkStat, the number of unemployed people has increased by 330 thousand in September compared to the same period last year. The unemployment rate has become 11.4 percent after increasing by 0.8 points.

Responding to the statements of President Erdoğan, who accused CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu of inciting the public to take to the streets and said, “You cannot find a chance to escape”, CHP Group Deputy Chairperson has stated, “Dictators are afraid of the street.”

MPs of the main opposition CHP called on Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Turhan to resign at the General Assembly of the Parliament over the high speed train accident in Ankara.

Speaking at the Doha Conference in Qatar, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has stated that they can consider working with Syria President Bashar al Assad in the event that he wins a democratic election.

Minister of Transportation Turhan has said, “Those who say 'The collision happened because of the lack of signalization' are not evaluating the incident correctly”. He added that signalization is “a supplementary security measure, not indispensable.”

Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Aydın has stated that documents and information in the investigation of Elçi murder were analyzed at University of London’s Forensic Architecture Department and possible perpetrators of his murder have been identified.