Wikipedia has appealed to the European Court of Human Rİghts (ECtHR) against the access block imposed by Turkey to the online encyclopedia. Access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey for the last two years.

Sevinç Özgüner Human Rights, Peace and Democracy Award has been granted to Saturday Mothers/People this year. Speaking in the award ceremony, Jiyan Tosun has said, “Not losing our hopes is the only thing that we need. Conscience will win.”

Feminist journalist and writer Ayşe Düzkan has been referred to an open prison. Leaving Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison in İstanbul last evening, Düzkan is expected to be transferred to Eskişehir Open Prison in 30 hours.

While the anonymous witness could not be heard in the ninth hearing of the case filed against 27 people including journalist Meşale Tolu, Tolu has announced that the passport of her husband has been confiscated in Turkey.

Having informed against themselves in support of Academics for Peace, two of 17 people have had their first hearings. Charged with “terror propaganda” just like the academics, the people in question will be tried in separate cases.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has announced its 250-page justified ruling on the annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections. We have compiled how legists and politicians have reacted to the ruling of the Council.

According to the figures announced by the Association for Supporting of Women Candidates (KA.DER), the number of women neighborhood and village heads has increased from 674 to 1,065 in March 31 local elections.

The Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the life sentence given by the local court to Nevin Yıldırım, who killed the man who sexually assaulted her systematically.

Four members of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), namely its Chair Sadi Güven, Cengiz Topraktaş, Kürşat Hamurcu and Yunus Aykın, have expressed dissenting opinion to the justified ruling on annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has announced its justified ruling on the annulment of İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral elections. The ruling has indicated that “when all objections are taken together, they constitute a justification to annul the elections.”

The municipal council of Tunceli Municipality has decided by majority of votes to officially change the “Tunceli Municipality” signboard to “Dersim Municipality.”

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the newspapers and magazines not given to inmates are arbitrarily selected, the selection varies depending on the charges brought against the inmates and prisons, which, in turn, violates freedom of expression.

Examining the application of imprisoned businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala after two years, the Constitutional Court has ruled by a majority vote that there is no violation of rights committed by his arrest.

Upon the objection of the Public Prosecutor, the Eskişehir 1st Heavy Penal Court has reversed the verdict of Eskişehir 1st Judgeship of Execution, which accepted the request of Academic for Peace Prof. Dr. Füsun Üstel for transfer to an open prison.

Are we going to turn our pain into more violence, hate, pain and injustice, or into steps that multiply life, beauty, love, peace and justice?

In order to heal the traumas transmitted from one generation to the other, and to come out of the cycles of violence we have been suffering from, we need reparative justice more than ever.

Rezan Sarıca and Newroz Uysal, the lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, have gone to İmralı Prison to meet him after 20 days. In their last meeting on May 2, his lawyers could meet Öcalan after 8 years and over 800 applications.

Answering the parliamentary question by CHP MP Polat, Minister of Trade Pekcan has stated that 8,050 firms operating in the manufacture, repair and trade of shoes have been registered while 4,085 firms have gone out of business in the last four years.

The women who were subjected to police violence while standing watch in front of Gebze Prison in Kocaeli for their relatives who are on a hunger strike in prison have filed a criminal complaint against the responsible parties.

Eskişehir 1st Judgeship of Execution has accepted Üstel’s request for transfer to an open prison by referring to a verdict by Supreme Court of Appeals, which ruled, “The ones convicted of terror propaganda cannot be deemed a terrorist organization member.”