According to bianet’s tally, men killed at least 281 women, raped/attempted to rape 109 women and teenager girls, left 560 women injured and sexually harassed 140 women and teenager girls.

One of the reasons I moved to Turkey was the fact that was inspired by the collectiveness of the country; that people tried together to change things into better.

On the 8th anniversary of Hrant Dink’s assassination, poet and playwright Murathan Mungan spoke to the crowd gathered for the commemoration ceremony.

Until every Turkish person living inside or outside of Turkey can reach a point where the word genocide rolls off the tongue without hesitation, apprehension or fear, Dink’s legacy will remain half of what it should be.

Murdered on 19 January 2007, Agos Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink will be remembered with a march from Istanbul’s Taksim district to Osmanbey where the murder scene and Agos newspaper headquarters are located.

Following a series of threats due to publishing a section of Charlie Hebdo’s latest issue, Cumhuriyet newpaper resumed working under police guard, receiving solidarity visits from news associations.

According to figures published by the Environment Agency 97.2 per cent of the population living in urban areas in Turkey were exposed to at least 35 days of air pollution above the recommended health limit. Turkey is continuing to breathe this invisible and silent killer.

No judicial progress has been made on the case of Güçlükonak where Gendarmerie forces killed 11 villagers in 1996.

President Erdoğan greeted the leader of Azerbaijan with 16 staff that dressed in the military uniforms of historical Turkish states.

YAY-SAT, the distributor of Cumhuriyet, sent a letter to the newspaper, saying that their issues will no longer be allowed on flights operated by Turkish Airlines.

Nihat Kazanhan, a 12 year old boy from Şırnak’s Cizre district, died after being shot with a bullet in the head.

Police detained 3 individuals who assembled outside Cumhuriyet newspaper to protest their release of four pages from Charlie Hebdo’s latest issue.