KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık urged the Turkish government to take concrete steps on the resolution before they could lay down arms.

14 columnists from 5 pro-government newspapers appeared today with the same headline in solidarity against the refutation of Erdoğan’s allegations that a veiled woman was harassed by protestors during the Gezi Resistance.

Law professor Yaman Akdeniz commented to bianet on the blocking of 49 websites including that of Turkey’s only Atheism Association and Charlie Hebdo magazine, saying that the number of censored sites is more the given number.

According to bianet’s tally, men killed at least 21 women, 1 child and 2 infants. 57 percent of perpetrators were identified as husband, ex-husband, lover or ex-lover.

According to BIA Media Monitoring Report 2014, 22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 in prison. While the number of jailed journalists took a dive, the number of detentions, censorship and layoffs soared. Here is what happened in terms of press freedom in the past three years!

According to Worker and Health Occupational Safety Assembly, at least 81 workers died on the job across Turkey in the month of February.

Soner Yalçın, a prominent journalist who wrote about Turkey through symbols of “Berkin” and “Bilal” on his latest book, stood trial for insulting Bilal Erdoğan - the president’s son.

Several stakeholders of Turkey’s resolution process reacted to PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan called for a PKK congress in spring to decide on quitting arms and 10 measures. Here is a compilation by bianet English.

Turkish ministers and Kurdish politicians announced that PKK leader appealed to a congress that will decide on leaving arms. Öcalan also introduced 10 measures including a new constitution that would “internalize the resolution of democratic steps and transformations.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said Turkey will search for oil around Iraq’s Qandil Mountains - the headquarters of PKK.

Journalist Mehmet Baransu has been arrested within an investigation around the allegations that Turkey’s Sledgehammer case defendants have been set up to be arrested.

Following the funeral ceremony at Istanbul’s Teşvikiye Mosque this afternoon, Yaşar Kemal was buried in Zincirlikuyu cemetery.

Regarding Istanbul’s new project to build a three-level sub-sea tunnel, Murat Ergün, an Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University’s (İTÜ) Civil Engineering Faculty, told bianet that traffic issues won’t be resolved with more roads.

Upon a motion submitted by Progressive Lawyers Union, Onur Kılıç has been released today for charges related to insulting the president.

Kiraz Şahin, the wife of İsmail Şahin who was lost in 1996, lost her life last night. She was 45.

The dead lion in the picture becomes not only a representation of Özgecan, but of the sacrifice of all women, anywhere in the world, who have lost their lives from the violence perpetrated against them. Who then, the crying girl? Their families, their friends, both men and women alike. Anyone who gives a damn. Anyone who wants it to change for the better.

Ramazan Akyürek, former Chamber of Intelligence Chairman, has been detained in Ankara within the murder investigation of Hrant Dink - murdered editor-in-chief of Agos newspaper.

The abortion of A.K., a male violence victim whose abortion request was denied previously by authorities, has been completed.

The parliamentary talks on the draft of Turkey’s new homeland security act continue along with opposition deputies’ protest by wearing covering their face with scarves and holding gas bomb grenades.

A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives targeted a Turkish Embassy vehicle near the Iranian Embassy in the Afghan capital this morning, leaving one Turkish soldier dead.