Following the 16-day detention, Evrensel reporters Cemil Uğur and Halil İbrahim have been released on probation.

Detained since April, the attorneys Acinikli and Demir from the Libertarian Legists Association were released yesterday.

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared that it is worried of Turkey’s further advancement into Syria and that the operation contravenes international law.

Three journalists, an artist, and an Alevi sage who joined the the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign launched on May 3 have been called to testify.

Yeniçağ daily writers Servet Avcı, Adnan İslamoğulları and Yavuz Selim Demirağ have been taken into custody as part of the investigation launched into the Gülen Community in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt.

A new online platform is to enable people to exchange their ancestry seeds. The only request by the Seed Exchange Network is that a sum of seeds be reserved for exchange with other people.

Among the films to be shown in this year’s Filmekimi festival are recent works by master directors such as Ken Loach, Pedro Almodovar, Jim Jarmusch, Terrence Malick, Thomas Vinterberg and Ron Howard.

The European Federation of Journalists has made a call for the immediate release of two Evrensel reporters, Uğur and Polat, who have been in detention for 15 days without contact with the outside world.

In a report on the Sur district of Diyarbakır, the HDP has said that 90 civilians and 71 security staff have lost their lives and that historical buildings in the district have been destroyed in the curfews and operations.

Three soldiers have been killed and four injured in a rocket attack on a Turkish tank in southern Al-Rai.

The European Court of Human Rights has passed judgement on three cases of extrajudicial killing in two different police-military operations. Turkey has been sentenced to pay compensation for having violated “the right to life”.

TTB, TİHV, SES and the Education Union have said, “Coup investigations must be carried out delicately within the legal framework, and those who haven’t been determined to have solid links with the coup must be returned to their duties,” referring to sacked public sector staff.