17-year-old trans male Okyanus Efe Özyavuz committed suicide in Izmir. Saying the offender of the suicide is the government and society, LGBTI organizations protested simultaneously in three different provinces at 7 p.m. [in local time].

According to an article of an upcoming omnibus bill, disabled people can be a prosecutor and a judge - a discriminatory practice that has been discussed at the parliament’s agenda as well as High Council of Judges and Prosecutors reports.

Presidential candidates Selahattin Demirtaş, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared their assets to Turkey’s Higher Board of Elections.

ISIL released the Turkish drivers who were taken as hostages since June 10. Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that no one had been delivered to Turkey yet.

Pelin Batu has been laid off from her post at Milliyet newspaper. "Why a popular leader who can hardly keep 50 percent of his electors under control, is afraid of three or five journalists, columnists and reporters,” she told bianet.

Turkey's Justice Minister admitted that there were sponged rooms in 70 prisons. These rooms are notorious in press for its torture videos. Sponged rooms are being watched for 24 hours and the rooms’ toilets are not surrounded.

At least 141 workers lost their lives according to Worker Health and Work Security Assembly. The death toll in 2014 climbed to 951.

Male violence left 17 women/teenager girls killed and 26 raped in June 2014. 17.6 percent of women were killed for seeking divorce. During the first six months of 2014, men killed 129 women.

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals announced its verdict on Sarp Kuray, a convict who has been sentenced to life despite ECHR ruling that his trial wasn’t held fairly. Kuray was sentenced to life again.

A group of activists marched to Madımak Hotel in the eastern province of Sivas to commemorate the killing of 35 intellectuals in 1993.

Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court released 30 defendants yesterday while declining the release of two as “PKK still resumed its activities”.

İbrahim Betil launched a change.org campaign urging presidential candidates Demirtaş, İhsanoğlu and Erdoğan to discuss on certain issues on television at least two times before the elections.

Rıdvan Aktar, well-known journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

Rıdvan Aktar, famous journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

Journalists Association of Turkey awarded bianet-affiliated journalists Önderoğlu and Eryılmaz its annual “Press Freedom” Award. A ceremony will be held on July 24 - Turkey’s “Struggle Day on Press Freedom”.

Members of Juvenile Prisons Must Be Banned Initiative raised their voices with the participation of children. “Juvenile prisons must be closed and not children,” said Betül Kaplan, spokesperson of the initiative.

bianet compiled a chronicle of fire in Istanbul’s historical places within 10 years. Because Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality listed the 648 fires from 1510 to 2000 but they did not listed the later ones.

After Radikal newspaper finished its print edition, Radikal 2 readers launched a campaign against the cancellation of newspaper’s op-ed supplement.

Thousands of activists flocked downtown Istanbul yesterday, covering Beyoğlu district with the colors of rainbow.

Are the men of Islamic countries really happy? How do they carry that burden, how do they cover everything they are expected to be? What is the real problem; the book or the interpretations? Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, seeks answers to those questions in the last film episode of her Islam Trilogy.