NEWS

Lawyers of Can Dündar, the editor-in-chief Cumhuriyet newspaper, and Erdem Gül, Cumhuriyet’s Ankara representative, objected the arrestment of two journalists.

Murdered on Saturday, Tahir Elçi was bidded farewall yesterday. During the farewell ceremony, his wife Türkan Elçi said: “Victims of unidentified murders will welcome him.”

Co-mayor of Diyarbakir confirmed Elçi’s death on Twitter. It is informed that he shot in the head with a single bullet.

Journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül arrested because of the story and the footage published about the state intelligence agency’s (MİT) trucks loaded with guns.

Turkish Ministry of Education (MEB) reminded the Armenian question with two questions in high school entrance exam.

Rezoning in Historical Peninsula that made possible to build boutique hotels there is approved by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Council despite the objections of the experts. According to this decision, boutique hotels will be built within historical part of Eminönü.

Diplomatic crisis that started with the downing of Russian warplane by Turkish forces continues. During the day, statements from Turkey and Russia have been made one after the other.

In Turkey, where at least 1134 women were murdered between 2010 and 2015, “dying the hair”, “buying new clothes”, “not cooking meatballs”, “not passing the salt” or just “being annoyed” were used as excuses for femicide. Murderers are the husbands, boyfriends, fathers, sons, brother of those women; in short, they are killed by their relatives.

Near Turkey’s border with Syria, a Russian warplane is crashed. The warplane is made crash by Turkey’s fighter jets on the grounds that it violated the airspace of Turkey.