Detained on September 10, former Taraf Editor-in-Chief Ahmet Altan has been released whereas his brother, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan arrested.

The asylum requests of three of the eight soldiers who fled to Greece following the July 15 coup attempt have been rejected, Greek media has reported.

Novelist and columnist Aslı Erdoğan, who has been under arrest since August 19, has received the literary award the Tucholsky Prize.

An attacker trying to storm the Israeli Embassy with a knife has said in his first testimony, “I did it to stop the bloodshed in the Middle East”.

In his speech at the UN, Erdoğan discussed the FETÖ, the war in Syria, a no-fly zone and the military operations in Syria and Mosul.

Soldiers who fled to Greece following the coup attempt on July 15 have stated that they had not played any role in the plot and heard about what had happened in the news. They characterized themselves as “secular Kemalists who are against any Islamic control mechanism in the army”.

DİHA reporter Feyyaz İmrak has been released at the second hearing. İmrak was under arrest since February 15.

Women in Mardin E-type Prison including JİNHA Editor Zehra Doğan have prepared an 8-page “Özgür Gündem Zindan” newspaper consisting of their own writings and drawings.

A 10-month prison sentence has been handed down to 45 ODTÜ who protested Erdoğan in December 2012.

Two soldiers lost their lives today in the Euphrates Shield operation run by the Turkish Armed Forces in Jarablus.

HDP Co-Leader Demirtaş has called on the PKK and the government to agree a ceasefire,

The Özgür Gündem daily newspaper’s former Editor-in-Chief Eren Keskin and former Managing Editor Reyhan Çapan have appeared before a judge for the daily’s March 10 issue.