HDP Co-Chair Sezai Temelli has announced that they wait for a response to the application that they made for the release of their imprisoned Presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş on May 21.

The call issued by Aysel Çelikel, Rakel Dink, Üstün Ergüder, Ayşe Soysal, Turgut Kazan, Yücel Sayman ve Murat Özçelik has read, “Either a serious indictment must be brought before public or Kavala should be released”.

LGBTI activist Kıvılcam Arat has been assaulted in her garden with shotgun by her neighbor living in the building across. The assailant has been tried without arrest.

A group of academics from the Academics for Peace - Germany have written about the procedures preventing their right to vote that they encountered during the voter registration period at various consulates in Germany.

Answering the questions of bianet from the prison where he is kept, HDP's presidential candidate Demirtaş has explained how he keeps fit, his meeting program, his first practice when he is elected and his candidacy period in prison.

Front Line Defenders has named Kurdish journalist Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for 2018.

Presidential candidate of the CHP Muharrem İnce has attended a live programme on CNN Turk via phone. İnce has said, “The Americans called me and told me, ‘Turkey has not sent us a formal request for Fethullah Gülen’.”

Presidential Principal Consultant Çevik has advocated that Demirtaş’s arrest should continue, and resolution process may recommence after the election. Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has refuted Çevik’s statement.

The ECtHR has found the application about Roboski massacre “inadmissible” by citing Constitutional Court’s decision to reject it. The Constitutional Court had rejected the application on the ground that “the lawyers sent the documents 2-day late”.

The imprisoned Presidential candidate of HDP Selahattin Demirtaş could not attend the hearing of the case brought against him on charge of “insulting the president” due to “election works.”

What is the saturation point in the struggle for the equality? The founder of the first online feminist news magazine feministiskperspective.se, Anna Klara Bratt, talked about the feminist movement in Sweden.

Parliament has intermitted ahead of June 24 elections. The parliament will assemble on the third day following the announcement of finalized election results.

Nine academics from Boğaziçi University and two academics from İstanbul and Bahçeşehir Universities have had their first hearings. The requests that the files of the cases conducted separately be combined have been rejected by different courts on the same grounds.

Four sick prisoners, who have been on hunger strike at İzmir Menemen Type R Prison since April 20, demand medical attention.

Today is May 17, Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia. Kaos GL has placed an ad on two newspapers, reading “Hope to see equal and liberated days”. LGBTIs will meet with the title “Alliances will meet for solidarity” tonight in İstanbul.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has announced that it will send observers to Turkey to monitor the Presidential and Parliamentary elections on June 24.

Barış Atay, who was detained yesterday due to his social media posts, has been released.

A resolution calling for the cancellation of agreements between Turkey and Israel has been rejected by the AKP MPs. During the vote, some MPs of the party were seen to be giving Nazi salute.

Found guilty of five charges of evading US sanctions against Iran, Halkbank Deputy General Director Hakan Atilla’s summary judgement began at 5 p.m. Turkey’s local time yesterday. Judge Berman sentenced Atilla to 32 months in prison.

While Israel has announced that it has stopped agricultural product import from Turkey, ambassador Naeh has left Turkey. This time, Israel has summoned ambassador’s deputy to Turkey.