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About 500 members of the Istanbul Bar Association demonstrated against custody and arrests of journalists on Tuesday and called for an independent judiciary. Their motto was "Rule of law instead of police state". They laid down a wreath in front of the Atatürk bust.

505 lawyers of the Istanbul Bar Association issued a full-page advertisement in the four nationwide dailies Radikal, Evrensel, Taraf and Birgün to call for an end of the military operation in south-eastern Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Kaboğlu has demanded that the state issue an apology over its treatment of Prof. Dr. Saylan shortly before her death. Many NGOs expressed their sadness over her death.