DİHA correspondent Muhammed Doğru, who had been taken into custody together with fellow students on April 15 has been arrested.

45 intellectuals noting Article 299 of Turkish Penal Code which carries a prison sentence of four years for defaming the President was open to abuse and not compliant with the Constitution and decisions of ECtHR, have demanded abolition of the article.

President Erdoğan following the complaint of village headpersons has interpreted Leman comic subjecting the village headpersons to its cover as “apology”.

A rocket launched from the ISIS held territory in Syria hit Kilis today causing fire break out in a house and two persons getting injured.

German public channel ARD correspondent and Cairo bureau director, Volker Schwenk hasn’t been allowed to enter Turkey. Schwenck is being kept in Atatürk Airport in the section for the deportees.

Prosecutor Preet Bharara has added the bill of indictment the expressions; “wherever these crimes have been committed including New York, Turkey and United Arab Emirates”.

Douglas Murray from the Spectator Magazine has asked its readers in protest of Erdoğan to write rude limericks about Erdoğan and send them by June 23.

Death toll has increased to five in Kilis in the rocket attack launched from ISIS-held territory in Syria.

Another woman imprisoner has been taken near Fadık Adıyaman who has started hunger strike for being kept by herself in Tekirdağ Type T Closed Prison. Both women saying they are being “kept in lockdown” have went out on hunger strike.

Amnesty International has underlined the absurd extent homophobia and transphobia has reached in Turkey through the video #GayTurtle.

A rocket has been launched on Kilis from ISIS-held territory in Syria, which has made it the seventh time. A shell was fired on Hatay again from the Syrian side; two killed, five wounded

The case as to killing of Ali İsmail Korkmaz has been heard again after the Supreme Court of Appeals revoked the decision. The court has iterated its decision; three suspects have been released due to the time they spend in jail while imprisonment of the two police officers continues.

MSF has stated that over 35,000 persons have fled the camps in Azaz region of Aleppo taken over by ISIS and more than 100,000 persons caught between the active ISIS frontline, Kurdish-controlled territories and the Turkish border.

Dumankaya İnşaat is at the center of the operations in which 100 people detained launched this morning (April 18) against the Gülen Community.

In the demonstration held in front of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, animal rights defenders have called the authorities to account for the thousands of animals delivered to Kısırkaya to be neutered yet not brought back later.

Four boats setting off from Egypt for Italy carrying around 400 refugees has sunk in the Mediterranean. 29 people have been rescued.

Two police officers have lost their lives in the operations against YPS members in Nusaybin district of Mardin under curfew and Yüksekova district of Hakkari.

Ankara Chief Prosecution has launched investigation into the three journalists making report on inspector’s report as to the October 10 Ankara Attack.

Editor-in-Chief of Sputnik, which has been blocked by communications presidency, Simonyan has said it is no longer possible to talk about freedom of the press in Turkey.

Serdar Gözükara Prize awarded by Social Service Experts Association in the field of child rights has been granted to bianet this year.