The seventh hearing in the trial of then Halkbank Deputy General Director Mehmet Hakan Atilla charged with evading US sanctions on Iran, was held on December 7. Testifying as a witness Reza Zarrab confirmed that the piano and the wrist watch he gave to then Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan was a bribe to work with Halkbank.

The court has ruled continuation of arrest of HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş who has been tried on 31 summaries. The next hearing is on February 14.

Yusuf Gülsevgi from Antep Zeugmadi LGBTI has said, “The governorship has given green light to homophobic and transphobic people. Two LGBTI activists were subjected to violence in Antep in the wake of the ban”.

President Erdoğan has slammed Trump over his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The US President has disregarded the United Nations’ resolution in 1980”.

In the “US Against Atilla” trial heard in Federal Court in Manhattan, cross examination of Reza Zarrab continued. Zarrab said that he was shocked when then Halkbank Deputy General Director Atilla was arrested.

36 of the 1,128 academics who are being tried for having signed the peace declaration of the Academics for Peace, stood trial before İstanbul Court. No academic has been acquitted. Their hearings have been adjourned.

Performing compulsory military service in Gemlik, Kılıç has lost his life by a sergeant major hitting his head with helmet on the pretext of talking on the phone.

The hearings of the academics who put forth the claim to Peace start on December 5, 2017. Meriç Eyüboğlu said that the academics "are tried separately to be isolated".

Yıldız Tar from KaosGL and Pınar Büyüktaş from Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence will speak at the Gender Equality and Discrimination in Media panel to be moderated by bianet’s women and LGBTI news editor Tahaoğlu.

Arrested in Büyükada trial and released after 113 days of detention, Peter Steudtner has been granted Quaker Peace Prize in Germany.

In the second hearing of the trial in which six journalists and media workers were standing trial due to their posts on social media, the two arrested defendants of the trial, Öğreten and Kanaat have been released.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation against CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu upon denunciation by President Erdoğan.

Serdar Ocaksönmez from the SPoD has stated the bans criminalize LGBTIs and make them feel under threat.

The fifth hearing in the trial of then Halkbank Deputy General Director Mehmet Hakan Atilla charged with evading US sanctions on Iran, was held on December 5. Testifying as a witness, under cross-examination, Reza Zarrab confirmed that Atilla did not ask him for any bribe.

The 4th hearing in the trial of then Halkbank Deputy General Director Atilla charged with evading US sanctions on Iran, was held on December 4. Testifying as a witness, Zarrab confirmed that he bribed his way out of prison after getting arrested in the December 17-25 corruption and bribery investigations.

Hakkari Governorship has decided to ban actions such as setting up tent, opening stand and sit-in protests, and ordered that meetings, statements for the press, open and closed meetings and rallies to be held on permission.

CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu has advocated that the state secrets Reza Zarrab told in the hearing in the US were confided in him by the ministers in exchange for money.

Ahead of the last session in trial of Hrant Dink’s murder, “Hrant’s Friends" gathered again in front of the courthouse demanding justice. "Hrant’s Friends" also urged the release of rights activist and businessperson Osman Kavala’s who has been behind bars since October.

Speaking at the group meeting of his party, Erdoğan has described the trial continuing in the US as an “international coup attempt” and criticized CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu.

11 of the 16 people from the group who went to Budapest from Turkey for “Folk Dances Farewell to Summer Events” have found asylum in the country.