The Human Rights Association's (İHD) Istanbul Branch has demanded the release of politicians including arrested Onur Hamzaoğlu and Fadime Çelebi, and detained Celalettin Can and Serpil Kemalbay.

Sergeant First Class Göksu Şahin wounded during Operation Olive Branch and Infantry Sergeant Major Mustaf Eker wounded in a conflict in Hakkari, have lost their lives.

With Demirtaş completing his defense on the third day of the trial, the court has ruled in favor of the prosecutor’s demand that former HDP Co-Chair’s arrest be continued.

Detained after making a statement in protest of offensive into Afrin, 17 people including Human Rights Association Hatay Branch Chair Can have been released on probation.

All six defendants under arrest including Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak were given aggravated life sentences in the attempted coup media case concerning seven defendants.

Weekend watch will be held for Maçka Park in which trees started to be uprooted on February 12 as part of the tunnel project. The Maçka Parkı Hepimizin Initiative has called on people to participate in the watch.

Taking off from Çiğli 2nd Main Jet Base Commandership for test flight in İzmir, a military training aircraft has crashed, killing two pilots.

Journalist Deniz Yücel’s lawyer and Die Welt have announced that decision of release has been issued for Yücel.

Merkel has pointed out the urgency of the journalist’s situation while Yıldırım has asserted that all lawsuits including that of Deniz Yücel are receiving due process within the principles of a state of law.

Those who were detained after having made a “no to war” statement have been sent to court for arrest on charge of “propagandizing for an illegal organization”. Human Rights Association Hatay Branch Chair Can is among those sent to court for arrest.

Two people have been arrested in İzmir for propagandizing for two illegal organizations. The detention operations launched on the same ground have continued.

Turkey’s November 2017 unemployment rate was recorded at 10.3 percent. Overall, unemployment figures had peaked in January 2017 with 13% but have remained below 11% for the past 8 months.

Cumhuriyet newspaper executives have filed a criminal complaint against Akit TV presenter Yusuf Ozan, who targeted Cumhuriyet and its employees.

Trial about 19-year-old Öner being crushed to death by an armored vehicle started yesterday, however the police defendant didn’t attend the hearing.

Journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu has been acquitted in the case filed against him for “insulting the president” by tweeting “Take your 400 MPs and give us our 30 children back, you lowly murderer,” after the Suruç massacre.

“Social media” operations have been conducted in various districts of seven cities within the past day. A total of 117 people have been detained in house raids.

PM Yıldırım has answered questions about journalist Deniz Yücel, imprisoned for a year and still pending indictment, Turkey-Germany relations, developments in Syria, and freedom of expression.

News of capsized boats and drowning refugees has started to come from the Meriç (Maritsa or Evros) River as well, after many such reports from the Aegean Sea. Görendağ from Amnesty International believes maritime transit increases in the spring, and that tensions in the political climate will only fuel its rise.

HDP’s Meral Danış Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary question on the detention of rights defenders and politicians following their declaration titled “No to the war in Afrin”, asking: “Why does the government target freedom of thought and expression?”

Women will be at Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district with the slogan “Down with Unequal Love” on February 14 (Valentine’s Day).