Diyarbakır's Surp Giragos Armenian Church restored after many years received the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award.

Attendants to the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project groundbreaking ceremony locked iron gate; police attacked demonstrators with water cannons.

ECHR gave its verdict on Veli Saçılık whose severance pay for getting his arm torn off in a prison operation was recalled after the case at the Council of State: Turkey cannot ask Saçılık to give back the indemnity paid him. The ECHR also warned Turkey to take its verdicts seriously.

The Ministry of National Education targeted Cumhuriyet newspaper for its piece titled “Bilal’s Goal Reached in One Year”: “We will continue to make public the media organs and reporters leading smear campaigns.”

Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink was acquitted in the trial where she was charged with “engaging in PKK propaganda” over social media.

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts (IKSV) announced they were canceling the screening of A Guerilla Documentary Bakur/North after a warning from the Ministry of Culture. 22 films consequently withdrew from the film festival to protest what was widely viewed as censorship.

On Saturday, April 11th, the General Staff declared that in an armed conflict that broke out between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) prior to a tree-planting activity in Ağrı province’s Diyadin district, 5 members of the PKK had been killed, and one PKK member and four military personnel had been injured.

After Pope Francis deemed the 1915 events genocide, Ankara called in Vatican Ambassador Paçacı for consultation and reported “disappointment and sorrow”.

A case was filed under 10 different charges against 23 people who attended the protests in support of Kobané. The defendants were accused in the bill of indictment of taking after appeals made through tweets. The only evidence for the accusations is the police report.

Perihan Çalış who lost her 18-year-old son in the Soma mine disaster reacts to the jailed defendants not being brought to court and says, “They see their children, if only through metal bars. What about us?”

Attorney Leyla Han Tüzel recounted the “non-beeping underwear” argument with the deputy chief prosecutor in Bakırköy Courthouse; “They want people to go into courthouses the way they go into prisons. That logic is what we are opposing here.”

“Although the call to zero tolerance for torture was continuously reiterated, practices of torture and ill treatment by the police have not ended, and the form of torture reflected on the street has become more visible and damaging,” wrote TİHV in their 2014 rights violations report.