Mersin University hasn’t extended the contracts of Assist. Prof. Dr. Hakan Mercan and Assist. Prof. Dr. Tolga Tören on the grounds of the administrative and criminal investigations launched into the academics for having signed the peace declaration.

President Erdoğan has said the arrested Die Welt correspondent Yücel is not a journalist but terrorist.

Azadiya Welat newspaper owner Ramazan Ölçen has been detained in Diyarbakır province.

Germany’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Schaefer has said that the Federal Republic of Germany was not involved in the decision to cancel Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ’s speech in Gaggenau province and noted that the decision was taken at local level.

Increasing by 10.13%, the annual Consumer Price Index has reached double-digit for the first time since April 2012.

In his letter from prison, arrested Die Welt journalist Deniz Yücel has written that the conditions in prison were better than in detention and added that he still had to laugh about the reason for his arrest.

Turkey has reacted to Germany not granting permission to the meeting which Minister of Justice Bozdağ would attend. Minister of Foreign Affairs Çavuşoğlu has said, “This has become a systematical practice of the German deep state”.

A person who drove by the building of Cumhuriyet daily in Şişli district of İstanbul in a taxi shot at the wall across the building.

The permission granted for the meeting in which Minister of Justice Bozdağ would give a speech this night in Gaggenau province of Germany has been cancelled.

“We will move to Manbij after al-Bab. We will shoot if the YPG does not withdraw. We demand from the US that the YPG withdraw,” Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said.

Curfews are declared as operations are to be launched in 11 villages in Lice district and one in Hazro district.

The dates for the March 8 International Women’s Day demonstrations in İstanbul have been set.

HDP women MPs have announced they will join the March 8 International Women’s Day strike.

The members of Grup Yorum and another defendant have been released in the first trial of the case against the rock group.

JİNHA correspondent Aysel Işık, arrested in November 2016, has been released.

The number of statutory decrees issued under the State of Emergency (OHAL) from July 21, 2016 to February 9, 2017 has reached 21. The Human Rights Joint Platform’s Feray Salman and Aysel Ergün added 6 new statutory decrees to their report. The report, which covers statutory decrees No. 667-681, analyzes the current extent of human rights violations under OHAL.

Being arrested on January 4 due to his social media posts following Reina attack, Barbaros Şansal has been released upon his lawyer Efkan Bolaç’s objection.

Ağrı co-Mayor Sırrı Sakık from Democratic Regions Party has been discharged from his position by the Ministry of Interior. Sakık’s position has been replaced by Ağrı Governor Musa Işın.

Art+Feminism is going to organize Edit-a-thon at the Women’s Library on March 4.

DBP Co-Chair Tuncel, who has been in prison for over 114 days, has sent a March 8 Women’s Day message from Silivri Prison.