Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) got together on 25th April 2017 for their Spring Time General Assembly and discussed the report titled "The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Turkey".

On April 2, 2017 Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Bangladesh published the Press Release titled, “Hizb ut Tahrir Demands the Immediate Release of Two Female Family Members of Party Activists in Bangladesh”. A delegation of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Turkey visited the Embassy of Bangladesh in Ankara and delivered this Press Release in Turkish, Arabic, English and Bengali to the authorities.

Dogan News Agency published a news on Friday, March 24, on Hizb ut Tahrir, which is based on slanderous and untruthful offenses, "a person who went to Syria to get weapon training, and then returned to his hometown Rize, was arrested by an operation carried out by the Rize Security Office and was arrested by the court". The agency said that the one who was arrested was a member of…

President Erdoğan, in an interview with Saudi Arabia’s El-Arabiya channel, was asked the question, "You combine Islam and secularism very well. What is your advice to the Arab world on this?", which he answered by saying, "I have difficulties in understanding why the Islamic world retarded in connecting these so much. We do not see secularism as 'LA deeny', as religionlessness. A person does not become secular, the state does."