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Turkey's top court ruled for a total of 190,000 Turkish Liras of compensation to be paid to the relatives of an inmate who was killed during a gendarmerie operation codenamed "Operation Return to Life" in Ankara's Ulucanlar Prison in September 1999. 

Turkey's Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has appealed the Council of State for the suspension and annulment of the execution of a new regulation by the Interior Ministry that restricts the right to assembly and demonstration.

Indonesian legislators and human rights activists criticized Aug. 5 a government proposal to make insulting the president illegal, citing concern for freedom of speech in the world's third-largest democracy. 

The proposal aims to revive a law from the era of former authoritarian ruler Suharto that was used to silence dissidents with jail sentences and fines. 

Bulgarian lawmakers have elected socialist party MP Maya Manolova National Ombudsman, the chairman of her party has said.

Mihail Mikov has made his comments, quoted by daily 24 Chasa, as ballots are still being counted in the single secret voting procedure arranged under Bulgaria's legislation.

Turkey's top court has declared the closing of private tutoring centers, known as "dershanes," were a restraint on the right to education and would leave the private enterprise unprotected, thus making it unlawful to shut them down. 

Political parties in Bulgaria's parliament have agreed to submit a joint project for changing the constitution to move forward with reform of the judiciary.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has urged MPs to back the set of proposed amendments to the Constitution on Friday so that the implementation of the judicial reform is not delayed further.

After the Suruç terrorist attack on July 20, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu called on political parties to issue a joint declaration. "Right at this moment, as leaders of four political parties, when we are engaged in an effort to form a partnership for government, when we are trying to generate shared wisdom, if we agree that the target of this attack is Turkey and Turkey's democracy, then now

On Monday night, when many Muslim believers were celebrating the Night of Qadr, the holiest night of the year, the breaking news came: The Constitutional Court annulled the law which had banned Turkey's private tutoring centers, known as "dersanes." This law was passed in March 2014, in the midst of a bitter political tension.

Turkey?s Constitutional Court has annulled a law phasing out private tutoring centers, known as dersanes, whose prospective closure had been interpreted as a move against the movement of U.S.-exiled Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, an ally-turned-foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.