The Ministry of Culture and Tourism canceled five plays at Atatürk Cultural Center after the actor Metin Zakoğlu made a joke about Murat Kurum, AKP’s candidate for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor
The Kurdish theater play Qral û Travis was banned in Istanbul after Ağrı and Antep. Ugur Özsunar, brother and assistant of actor Bahoz Özsunar, detained
The response to the written inquiry submitted in the Parliament revealed that the district-governorate did not have an official written ban decision regarding the game “Haylo Dîsa Tevlihev bû”, which had been banned in June citing the decision of Tatvan District Governorate