In Mardin, the police hustled 19 juvenile demonstrators towards a mine field, beat them and took them in custody. The related administrative investigation was now completed. The Deputy Governor accepted the fact that torture was involved but did not suggest an according punishment.

Movie Director Arslan and photographer Özer were among 35 people who were released on 16 February. In Istanbul, a total of 49 people were taken into custody in the scope of a KCK operation 3 days earlier. 46 people all in all were released in Diyarbakır and Izmir.

The Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association organizes a workshop about the Western Armenian language. The project on the language that is endangered to disappear completely will start on 18 February and stretches over a period of one year.

The court handling the trial of Fevziye Cengiz who was exposed to violence at a police station in Izmir decided for lack of jurisdiction and sent the case to a Criminal Court of First Instance. Lawyer Yıldırım said the file should go to a high criminal court due to the torture allegations.

23 people were taken into police custody in Taksim/Istanbul when the police intervened against demonstrators on 15 February, the day jailed PKK leader Öcalan was extradited to Turkey. The same day, journalist Yıldız was taken into custody when she applied for a new job.

After the final hearing of the trial related to the Hrant Dink murder in January, the family of the slain Turkish-Armenian journalist applied to the chief prosecutor's office for the litigation of public officials in the context of the murder.

Human Rights Watch announced that the new reform bill introduced by the Turkish government failed to resolve problems related to freedom of expression and arbitrary detention. The international organization expressed concern about the limited approach of the draft package.

Anonymous got hold of four different databases of the Prime Ministry Telecommunication Association. On 12 February it was announced that the databases were hacked. The data was then published on Twitter by a user called 'Unnamed_Anarchy".

Movie director Arslan and photograph artist Özer are among approximately 140 people taken into police custody in the course of the KCK operation on 13 February. The police refrained from seizing Özer's unpublished book because they did not want to "get into trouble".

The court handling the Hrant Dink murder case forgot to give a decision about un-detained defendant Coşkun İğci. He was now acquitted.

The EU declined Greece's plan to erect a fence on the border to Turkey saying it was "unnecessary and too expensive". Assoc. Prof Danış told bianet that a fence was not the solution to the reasons of immigration. In her opinion, Greece wanted to give a message with this project.

According to data published by the Ministry of Justice, the number of imprisoned detainees and convicts reached 131,317. In other words, the number of prisoners in Turkey now exceeds the population of each provinces of Dersim, Bayburt, Ardahan and Kilis.