While nine of 11 distributors who were detained in a raid launched on Azadiya Welat’s headquarters have been released, Arap Turan and Ferit Toprak been arrested.

Archaeologists are hoping to make 2,800 year-old seeds discovered in an excavation in Van grow again. The head of the project believes that the seeds would most probably grow again if they have become carbonized on their own.

“We saw the problems that Turkey was facing because of the events in Syria,” said Russian President Putin. “One does not need to be an analyst to understand what is going on.”

According to the August 2016 Corporate Murders report by the Occupational Health and Safety Council, at least 1,250 workers lost their lives in the first eight months of the year.

An objection raised against Özgür Gündem daily Publishing Consultant Board member, novelist and columnist Aslı Erdoğan’s arrest has been overruled today by İstanbul 5th Criminal Court of Justice.

In the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) main case, heard in Diyarbakır, the court has ruled that HDP deputies must be brought to the court by force.

50 volunteers including politicians and artists have begun an indefinite hunger strike without rotation, demanding a meeting with Öcalan within the framework of the legal rules.

Two soldiers have lost their lives in a clash which broke out between soldiers and members of the PKK in the operations carried out in the rural area of Çukurca district in Hakkari this morning.

Former İstanbul Security Director Hüseyin Çapkın has been arrested as a part of the investigation into the FETÖ/PYD’s alleged presence in public sector.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has said, “What is the harm in one of Öcalan’s attorneys having a brief meeting in İmralı?” in response to Minister Bozdağ saying “There is no problem with PKK Leader Öcalan’s security”.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said: “Baseless information is being circulated around Abdullah Öcalan’s health and security,” denying that there was any problem with either.

Three soldiers have been killed, 20 others been injured in the clash broke out between soldiers and PKK members.

Dersim Preservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage Initiative has highlighted that especially since the beginning of OHAL, Dersim has been continuously hit by forest fires and has filed a criminal complaint to press charges against those responsible.

DİHA reporter Sebahattin Koyuncu has been arrested on the grounds of his reports and social media posts.

Speaking at the “First Hundred Days of the 65th Government” meeting in the Çankaya Mansion, Prime Minister Yıldırım presented the Government’s activities. The Minister of Justice Bozdağ said at the meeting that 33,838 convicts have been released.

12 out of 35 journalists and columnists who had a detention warrant issued against them have been taken into custody and processed in the police station. Öztürk, Yılmaz, Aksoy, Akkuş, Gökçe, Tiryaki, Arap, Şahin, Şimşek, Taş, Çulhaoğlu and Çölgeçen were referred to court.

President Erdoğan, speaking about the Jarablus operation and the YPG, has said: “They now tell us that they [YPG] have withdrawn to the East of Euphrates. We say, ‘No, they have not’. The confirmation that they have passed to the East of Euphrates depends on our assessment”.

In the wake of the July 15 attempted coup, 2,346 people have been dismissed through statutory decree on the grounds that they had links to the Fethullah Gülen community.

Over 40,000 public officers have been sacked by the Statutory Decree no. 672. The greatest number of sackings took place at the universities and the Ministry of National Education.

The Women for Peace Initiative will meet in front of the Süreyya Opera House in Kadıköy at 5 p.m. on September 3.