Germany’s Green Party Co-Chair Özdemir has responded to Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu: “As long as the political and NGO representatives are in prison, normalization of the relations is not possible”.

The journalists have sent their regards to their colleagues in prison. Ahmet Şık, who took place in the group photo taken last year for the same purpose and was detained in the next morning, was represented with his carton image.

Roads and streets leading to Beyoğlu İstiklal Street and Taksim Square in downtown İstanbul as well as the roads in Beşiktaş, Şişli, Kadıköy districts will be closed to traffic on New Year.

Arrested Cumhuriyet daily accountant Emre İper who was among the holders of 11,480 GSM numbers that Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office reported to have installed ByLock, unknowingly on their cell phones, has been released after 267 days behind bars.

HDP MP Özsoy has submitted a motion to the Parliament regarding the 77% physically disabled Ufuk Kişin who was detained in an operation in İzmir and was arrested six days later.

The Şirin Tekeli Research Award 2017 organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence with the aim to support and encourage gender based studies have been granted to 14 people.

HDP MP İrmez has made a motion for a parliamentary investigation of the massacre in Roboski village in Turkey's southeastern province of Şırnak, where 34 people were hit and killed by fighter jets on December 28, 2011.

Movie makers gathered in front of the courthouse to support the director of the documentary “Bakur/Kuzey” (the South), Demirel a head of his trial in which he is being charged with “terror propaganda”.

Arrested Cumhuriyet daily accountant Emre İper is among the holders of 11 thousand 480 GSM numbers that Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office reported to have installed ByLock, an encrypted communication software allegedly used among Gülen Community, unknowingly on their cell phones.

Council of Europe has stated that it has taken the recent Statutory Decrees under review, that stirred criticism over prescribing “identical uniforms” for prisoners and an “exemption of civilians from legal proceedings” who take action in order to suppress terrorist activities.

Reminding that meetings, assemblies and night marches would fall under the freedom of expression, the Constitutional Court abolished the provisions that provided that “meetings and marches must be ended before sunset, these should not be carried out on the roads and thus obstruct daily life”.

Richard Giragosian, the President of the Regional Studies Center located in Yerevan, Armenia, has talked to bianet about the nullification of the political protocols between Turkey and Armenia.