After CHP’s visit regarding the presidential election, Kürkçü stated that HDP will nominate its own candidate, but they can support CHP in the second round, depending CHP’s candidate.

If the prosecutors trying the case today care about Turkey’s obligation to uphold the rights to nonviolent assembly, association, and free speech, they should drop all charges against the Taksim Solidarity activists.

A year later, Metis has made an English edition of Tarih available, giving an opportunity for readers outside Turkey to reach this document of both the Gezi Resistance and the relationship between the government and the media in Turkey.

Truck Drivers’ Union Chairman Çetin Ünlü announced that 30 of the 31 drivers took hostage by ISIL militants were released. Located in Erbil, truck driver Akbaş told bianet that they have still waited for their friends, however they haven’t been released yet.

3 high rank police officers have been dismissed within the investigation after the take down of Turkey’s flag in 2nd Air Force Command in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

PYD Co-President Salih Müslim Muhammad emphasized that the Kurds of Syria have been left alone in the battle against ISIL, and that the results thereof have now started to come to the fore. He stated that they extended a hand to Turkey, but the latter never took it.

At least 3 workers died in a coal mine in the sourtheastern province of Şırnak due to a subsidence.

A court arrested an alleged collaborator in the investigation into the demonstrator that took down Turkey’s flag in Diyarbakır 2nd Air Force Command.

What deceives children is the course of this society, in my opinion. It is the state itself, which provides neither a future, nor the space for freedom or democracy, that deceives.

A motorcycled assailant opened fire on the crowd attending a funeral service in a cemevi in Antep province. Three were injured in the event.

History Foundation and Sociology and Education Studies Unit reviewed the schoolbooks based on the criteria of human rights, revealing that children are taught about the military in Turkey from the very early days of their compulsory education.

PKK Executive Council Member Duran Kalkan said BDP and HDP are not their representatives, that they no longer have faith in the İmralı talks, and that nobody can convince the guerrilla anymore unless they speak with Öcalan.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned on procedural grounds the aggravated life imprisonment ruled for Pınar Selek.

Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz declared that they would resume the construction of high security check-points, saying that “being secure is priceless”.

While the taking down of the flag in Diyarbakır led to demonstrations in the name of respecting the flag in certain provinces, the reaction to the flag in certain places turned into an attack against Kurds.

Ministry of Internal Affairs, Turkish Air Force Command and Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office have launched an investigation regarding the incident of taking down of Turkish flag within the military bsse of Diyarbakır 2nd Air Force Command. Two security officers were dismissed.

Following the taking down of Turkey’s flag by a child protestor in the southeastern and predominantly Kurdish populated district of Lice, President Abdullah Gül, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan released statements.

“In here, they don’t provide anything to us, neither water nor soap, toothpaste or sugar… just tea is free...I used the same sheet for 27 months…Now, I don’t even have an underwear, just two rapped t-shirts and pants… Believe me, we feel the absence of everything..”

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Board gave permission for preliminary license once again to the Konaktepe Dam and two hydroelectric plant projects planned on Munzur Valley National Park and already once annulled by Turkey’s State Council, deeming the projects devoid of public welfare around three years ago.

Struggle Platform Against Isolation released a statement, saying that as of June, there are 641 sick prisoners across Turkey’s prisons with 233 in serious condition.