The court has rejected the lawsuit against the Mersin Governorship's ban on 2019 Pride Week, reiterating the same grounds such as “public peace”, “prevention of crimes”, “public health” and “public morality”.

Hakkı Eren and Mert Soydan were released on probation after being detained over hanging a banner.

Speaking about the seizure of municipality’s bank accounts, Dersim Mayor Maçoğlu has said, “The article 15 of the municipal law openly stipulates that the taxes, fees and provincial bank shares of municipalities cannot be confiscated.”

Affiliated with the Metropolitan Municipality of İstanbul, the İstanbul Arts and Vocational Training Center (İSMEK) has started accepting applications for Kurdish lessons. In early December, the Municipality announced that it would hire two Kurdish instructors.

HRW has released its World Report 2020, where it reviews human rights issues in more than 100 countries.

Several publishing houses and bookstores have shared messages of support for “Leylan”, the first novel penned by HDP’s imprisoned former Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş.

Akile Salih, the Chair of Libya’s Haftar-allied House of Representatives in Tobruk, has announced that “the ceasefire is over, the war will continue.”

The ruling party had announced that around 100 mayors from the opposition parties would join them.

As the local court removed the access block to Wikipedia in compliance with the Constitutional Court verdict of right violation, Wikipedia has been reopened by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) after two years and eight months.

Arrested for allegedly "aiding and abetting a terrorist organization" on January 10, Aho (Sefer) Bileçen, the priest of Mor Yakup Church in Mardin, has been released as the court has ruled for his release upon the objection of his attorneys.

Kurkut was shot dead by the police during Newroz celebrations in 2017. While an earlier report said he was directly shot, the new report states the bullet "bounced from a hard ground."

Commenting on the theater play adapted from Demirtaş’s book “Devran” and also watched by his wife, İstanbul Mayor has said, “Maybe, a different atmosphere will be created by women. Maybe, an environment of peace can be established.”

The President has lashed out at Libya's General Haftar, who left Moscow today without signing a ceasefire agreement with the Turkey-backed Tripoli government.

Arshak Makichyan has been striking for climate in Russia for over 40 weeks now. Arrested and imprisoned for 6 days, Makichyan has answered the questions of bianet.

A trans woman named Yıldız İdil has said that she, along with many trans women, was detained and tortured on new year's eve.

A criminal complaint has been filed against the officers in Gazi Neighborhood police station over torture and maltreatment. “When the police took us, they told us, ‘The era of white toros* cars has ended, there are now white transits”, Aydın has recounted.

On January 19, it will be 13 years since Editor-in-Chief of Agos newspaper Hrant Dink lost his life in an armed attack. The late journalist will be commemorated in Turkey and around the world on the 13th anniversary of his assassination.

"All these deaths are a result of the measures that are not taken and the controls that are not carried out," Kansu Yıldırım from the İSİG Assembly has said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has confirmed that Libyan National Army (LNA) leader Khalifa Haftar has left Moscow without signing the ceasefire agreement.

The SP chair has claimed that the ruling party convinces the mayors by offering to pay debts of the municipalities.