Kardeş Türküler, a music band that covers songs from Anatolia, Thrace and Mesapotamia in their original language, released a video to support a corridor to Kobane.

A commemoration march has been organized for Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, a sociologist who fought against ISIS and was killed in action in Kobane.

An indictment regarding the incident that left 10 workers dead in Torun Center construction in Istanbul issued a nolle prosequi for 9 defendants including company owners.

37 individuals including artists and authors made a public appeal to meet at down Istanbul on October 25 for the 500 week of Saturday Mothers/People of Turkey meeting.

The European Court of Human Rights found it “excessive” that Murat Vural was convicted to 22.5 years of prison and removal of his electoral rights for pouring paint on Atatürk busts.

The mental health commission of Lambdaistanbul, an LGBTI organization, has launched a campaign to convince bookstore owners to remove books referring homosexuality as a disease.

Istanbul’s Şişli district municipality started to provide free healthcare for LGBTI people, allowing patients to get tested on STDs anonymously.

Amnesty International informed that around 100 refugees from Syria are at risk of being returned to the war-torn city of Kobane, urging Turkish authorities to release the refugees from their unlawful detention immediately.

In Turkey, Muslim groups have used the “human rights” framework to protect their religious practices, such as wearing headscarves in universities and workplaces. But what happens when the “rights” demanded by dominant religious groups contradict the rights and demands of others?

24 members of Turkey’s People, a delegation to for the resolution of Kurdish issue, took a decision to initiate a meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Semra Demir, an administrator at Democratic Regions Party, has been shut by a tear gas bomb canister during a gendarmerie intervention to villagers on watch-duty in the border with Kobane.

Jadaliyya interviewed Annika Marlen Hinze on her book “Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space” published by University of Minnesota Press.

The association of the Turkish language with the Turkish state and its politics makes many wary of acknowledging the indelible place of Turkish in the lives of Ottoman Armenians and their diasporan descendants.

Stop Racism and Nationalism Platform is to file a complaint against columnist Yılmaz Özdil for using hate speech in one of his articles.

Altınordu, a soccer team in Turkey’s second division, has been invited to join the network of “Football is More” - a foundation aims to support and encourage disadvantaged people worldwide by using the power of football.

A Turkish court acquitted defendants for saying “God damn it, PM became a dictator”. While Erdoğan also joined the case as plaintiff, prosecutor also claimed that “cursing could neither be an insult or crime”.

Detained by the police during anti-ISIS protests in Istanbul University, a 15-year old teenager girl from Germany is sent to a shelter prior to deportation.

Memory Center, an NGO focusing on Turkey’s disappeared people, released a report explaining the disappearance cases during the term of Doğan Güreş, Turkey’s military chief during 1990 and 1994. He died yesterday.

After being gravely injured by unknown assailants in Adana’s Seyhan district, Azadiya Welat newspaper distributor Kadri Bağdu lost his life yesterday - an incident that reminded many of Turkey’s unclaimed killings during the 1990s.

Observatory of Balkans and Caucuses will present the interim results of research and activities under the Safety Net for European Journalists project about threatened journalists in 11 countries in Southeast Europe around a forum in Skopje, Macedonia on 16-18 October 2014.