Revolutionary People's Liberation Party

The last day of the first hearings in the case of daily Cumhuriyet journalists and executives began on July 28, as a verdict is expected to be announced in the evening hours. 

All 17 journalists and executives from the daily have testified over the past five days.

The trial of daily Cumhuriyet journalists and executives entered its fourth day on July 27. 

Journalist Hikmet Çetinkaya was the first to testify in the fourth hearing.
The charges directed at the Cumhuriyet journalists include "membership of an armed terrorist organization" and "helping an armed terrorist organization while not being a member of it."

After a long time, we had a chance to see our colleagues from daily Cumhuriyet. We were all packed into a mid-size courtroom, which felt like a Finnish sauna, on the first floor of the Çağlayan Courthouse. This was the first time 12 of them were brought before a judge after nine months. Nevertheless, the audience was as energetic as though they were in a rock concert.

The trial of seventeen executives and journalists from the daily Cumhuriyet, including the newspaper's editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık Kadri Gürsel and cartoonist Musa Kart, went on to its second day on July 25.

Eleven of the 17, including Gürsel, Sabuncu, Kart and Şık, are held in custody, while the others have already been freed.

Turkish police detained 47 protesters demonstrating in support of two hunger-striking educators jailed in May in the capital Ankara on July 23.

The network of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen has been mentioned in the U.S. State Department's annual report, the Country Reports on Terrorism 2016, for the first time, while not listing it among terrorist groups operating in Turkey.   

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the Turkish government over its handling of the fight to "end terror," calling for a joint struggle to fight for a "terror-free country" on the 15th day of his "justice march" to Istanbul.

The Constitutional Court on June 28 denied the demand of jailed educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça to be released from prison. The two have been on hunger strike for over 100 days in protest at their dismissal from their posts in state of emergency decrees, and were arrested at the end of May.

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have been on hunger strike for 90 days for their jobs. The former is an academic and the latter is a teacher. Despite all the statements from the interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, they are not terrorists, and not members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

One person was killed in an anti-terror operation carried out in Istanbul's Kadıköy district early on June 13.
Anti-terror police raided a house at around 12 a.m. in the neighborhood of Acıbadem as part of the operation, igniting a clash between security forces and the suspects.