Diyarbakir bar association reminded that the Lice Penal Court of First Instance ruled before that it did not have jurisdiction over the case since the acts were in the scope of “torture.” The three police officers arrested in the scope of the investiga…

Some parents and children had withdrawn their complaints after facing “social pressure,” an association who took up the case for the tortured children said in a statement. An appeals court in Erzurum has ordered the release of the director and staff me…

In the second trial hearing, Kartal denied the allegations of ‘disguising himself as a journalist’ to write articles promoting a ‘terrorist organization’. He was subsequently released with a travel ban imposed. On January 10, journalist Sezgin Kartal, …