Çiğdem Mater, Ayşegül Güzel and Yusuf Cıvır, who were detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights defenders on November 16, have been released. Civil society expert Yiğit Aksakoğlu has been arrested.

Prof. Dr. Betül Tanbay, who was previously detained as part of the operation launched against academics and rights advocates, has been released after giving her deposition. Seven people have still been in custody.

Prof. Dr. Turgut Tarhanlı, Asena Günal and Bora Sarı, who were among the 13 academics and rights advocates taken into custody earlier today, have been released after their depositions. Meltem Aslan has also been released afterwards.

“Taking away academics and intellectuals, who have not even had a slightest engagement with violence and crime throughout their lives, intervening in the course of their lives, can by no means be normalized nor accepted.”

One soldier has lost his life in an explosion that occurred during a mortar fire in the district of Uludere in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak. Four soldiers have been wounded, one of whom in serious condition.

38 of the 74 people, who were taken into custody as part of an operation conducted in the provinces of Diyarbakır, Hakkari and Elazığ, have been arrested.

Human Rights Association has released a written statement, emphasizing that they condemn the operations launched against academics and civil society representatives.

İstanbul Security Directorate has released a written statement and announced the reason for the detention of academics and civil society representatives.

Academics Turgut Tarhanlı and Betül Tanbay and Çiğdem Mater, Meltem Aslan, Ali Hakan Altınay, Yiğit Ekmekçi, Bora Sarı, Ayşegül Güzel, Filiz Telek and Yiğit Aksakoğlu have been taken into custody as part of the operation.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu slammed the Saudi narrative of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that the journalist was killed due to brawling and overdose drugging. Çavuşoğlu insisted that the suspects should be tried in Turkey.

PEN Turkey Center has held a press conference on the occasion of November 15 International Day of the Imprisoned Writers to attract attention to the imprisonment and difficult conditions of writers arrested for writing in Turkey and across the world.

International credit rating agency Moody’s has announced that while the economy of Turkey will grow by 1.5 percent in 2018, it will contract by 2 percent in the following year. Fitch has also warned that the country could go into recession in 2019.

The labor force statistics announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute have shown that though the public employment increased by 20.2 percent in August, the unemployment rate continued its upward trend with 11.1 percent.

The article of the motion foreseeing restrictions on the employment of medical doctors discharged by Statutory Decrees has been passed at the General Assembly of the parliament. Accordingly, discharged physicians cannot work for 450 days.

Dilbahar has been behind bars for 8 years, Ilıcak and Altan for 2 years, 6 months. PEN draws attention to four imprisoned journalists on the Day of Imprisoned Writers; bianet is doing the same for the three in the name of 123 imprisoned journalists in Turkey.

Inviting all women to the night march to be held along the İstiklal Avenue on November 25, Ergül from the November 25 Women’s Platform has said, “We have never given up our struggle and we do not have the slightest intention to do so."

The Court of Appeal has overturned the prison sentence given to Ayla Albayrak, who has been sentenced to 25 months in prison on the allegation that he propagandized for the PKK in an article that she penned for the Wall Street Journal.

The court has given a verdict of non-jurisdiction in the lawsuit filed against HDP’s former imprisoned co-chair Demirtaş for having allegedly insulted the then prime minister Davutoğlu. The file has been sent to the İstanbul 2nd Penal Court of First Instance.

Feminist lawyer Canan Arın has been awarded the Bruno Leoni Award for her struggle against child marriages. Emphasizing that all women are courageous, Arın has dedicated her award to all courageous women all over the world.

The article of the motion foreseeing restrictions on the employment of discharged medical doctors in private health institutions has been proposed to be amended.