The Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch has published the results of the investigation it carried out at Elazığ No 1 and No 2 Women's Penal Execution Institution.
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu stated that they will start an investigation on social media posts related to the earthquake.
HDP sent a delegation to investigate in Elazig, where an earthquake of 6.8 magnitude occurred.
One more person from the family who were stuck under the wreckage was rescued in Gezin located in Maden. While father Meriç Dişli was rescued from the wreckage injured, mother and child are still waiting to be rescued.
As a result of the earthquake in Elazig, 19 people have been killed and 922 injured so far. While the search and rescue activities in debris in Elazig and Malatya continue, the people spent the night outside despite the cold.
Four years ago the old district of Sur in Amed was destroyed by Turkish security forces. Today two residents of Sur were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Former AKP Diyarbakır MP Ali İhsan Merdanoğlu resigned from his party.
HDP Co-Chair Sezai Temelli pointed out the importance of social organization and said, “What to do? How to do? We must once again interpret Lenin, and once again in the field of social organization we must read Öcalan. We must think again. ”
An appeal by the families of Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in Imrali to visit their relatives was rejected by Turkish authorities.
The former editor of the newspaper Yeni Yaşam Gazetesi, Osman Akın, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for "propaganda for a terrorist organization".
European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee voted on Protocol on Ireland.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today. She arrived in Turkey on Thursday evening and talks are to discuss "all aspects" of bilateral relations.
There will be two extradition hearings for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The second will take place in May, as a judge ruled on Thursday.
The Birleşik Metal-Iş (United Metal Union) held a press conference at Şişli Nazım Hikmet Küldür Center.
"It is true that an investigation has been launched upon [article] 301 but I don't know the content of the investigation yet," Kubilay has said.