My Grandmother Veron also told how Armenians were slayed; how they sheltered about 40 people in their house as gendarmes had no right to touch our family at the governor's order.

In 3 different cases, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of torture, ill-treatment and long term imprisonment, ordering the Turkish state to pay a sum of 30,900 euros as damages.

The European Court of Human Rights delivered a verdict related to Gülperi O., a young woman whose death was not adequately investigated despite domestic violence. Turkey was found guilty of violating the right to life.

DİHA reporter Nazım Daştan was summoned to testify for charges related to “photographing in a military zone” while reporting on the Syrian refugees crossing the border.

People’s Democratic Party deputies Buldan, Baluken and Önder released a statement on the current situation of Turkey’s resolution process witk PKK and the steps to take in the future.

We set out and left behind our dearest Lake Van that wept, sobbed like an abandoned orphan and called us as if saying “take me with you, I won’t stay without you, but how can I stay without you…”

Ninety years since the establishment of the Republic, in an ever more complex society, the limitations and contradictions of Turkish national identity are coming to the fore more and more.

The international community should support a secular, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Rojava with democratic ambitions, that is a threat for IS and equally for the conservative Islamic government in Turkey. This is democracy in action in the Middle East.

Turkey's Alawites do not face the same threats as the people of Syria and Iraq. Despite the porous nature of Turkey's southern border, it is not about to collapse. But the Alawites of Hatay feel vulnerable.

"The woman offered Hakob to lie under the bedding. Soon he could hear Turks yelling and the woman’s answer who assured them the boy wasn’t in her house. In the end the soldiers went away."

Turkey certainly has security concerns vis-à-vis ISIS potentially taking control of the Syrian-Turkish border area. However, it is currently elevating its balance of power calculations vis-à-vis the Asad regime and Kurdish groups inside Syria above those of security vis-à-vis ISIS.

5 suspects including mine owner Saffet Uyar have been arrested for charges related to “purposefully neglected murder” of workers in the central district of Ermenek, Karaman.

"One evening, when men were away, that Turk Pasha visited them. Mother used to say he was like a family member."

The usage of f-word during a police raid stirred unrest in the southeastern district of Yüksekova with local residents awaiting an announced apology from the police authorities.

Deniz Erdoğdu from Turkish Doctors Union told bianet that while conditions in refugee camps located in the southeastern district of Suruç were not so terrible, he warned about certain infections could turn into epidemics in a matter of days.

A statute of limitations has been issued to a case held by Kırklareli High Criminal Court on the torture allegations on high school students in a military facility during Turkey’s 1980 Military Court.

Villagers from the western district of Soma planted new olive trees after a thermic power plant construction left thousands of trees cut. The event was supported by local chamber of agriculture engineers.

Saffet Uyar, the owner of a mine in Ermenek where 18 workers were trapped (and presumably dead), surrendered to the police yesterday. 8 are under detention within the investigation.

"When that Turkish friend saw my Grandfather wasn’t at home, offered them to stay in his house. They went and hid for some time but the neighbors noticed there were Armenians in that house, which meant danger for the host."

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