A military court in Northern Cyprus released all jailed defendants within the case of Uğur Kantar, a private under compulsory drafting who allegedly lost his life due to a solitary confinement penalty known as “disko”.

Istanbul 2nd High Criminal Court released 4 jailed defendants affiliated with Socialist Democracy Party who were detained in Taksim Square area on June 11, leaving no jailed defendants in Istanbul Gezi Resistance case.

The pilot of downed Syrian jet spoke in the hospital in Latakia and he defended himself that he had never transgressed the border.

TGC sued for the suspension of Turkey’s information and communication authorities for the ruling on the twitter ban.

The city of Istanbul experienced one of its most crowded Newroz celebrations in the recent years with demonstrators extending up to the waterfront in the massive Kazlıçeşme square. Those who participated in the celebration expressed their hopes about Turkey’s resolution process.

A compilation made by bianet revealed that male perpetrators left 25 women dead in December 2013. While 16 percent of slain women previously filed a complaint, 20 percent were killed for seeking divorce.

Özyeğin University authorities launched an investigation against a student in Özyeğin University’s Applied Sciences Academy for “damaging the dignity of an institution staff” on his messages on the social media.

Various artists protested the twitter ban in Turkey with their drawings.

Only few hours after PM Erdoğan’s words “We will root out twitter in Turkey” in an election rally in Bursa province, authorities shut down the access to twitter via default DNS in Turkey.

“The court issued a ruling. We will root out whatever that is twitter or mwitter. Some might say ‘What would the international community say?’ I don’t care,” PM Erdoğan said during an election rally in Bursa province.

In Adalar, we have responded by putting forth an all-female ticket for city mayor and council. Not only are we all women and live on the islands, but we have Muslims and Christians, Turks, Armenians, Greeks and even a foreign-born woman (American from Texas) on the ticket for city council, and our candidate for mayor, Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof, is of Armenian origin.

“Names like Talat Pasha still traumatize people. We will start the work from the streets,” Eli Haligua, a candidate council member, said.

Trans citizens told bianet about the troubles they go through as they are voting. While T-Der urged trans people to go to the polls even though they might face discrimination, it also called election authorities to take the necessary precautions.

A group of university students occupied an abandoned house in Beşiktaş and named it “Berkin Elvan Student House”.

Berkin Elvan is not the first child who died as a result of state violence. Hundreds of children lost their lives because of the state violence since 1988.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s “aggravated” life sentence violated the convention article related to “prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment”.

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“When Berkin was shot, he cried ‘Anne’ (mother),” said one of the witnesses who released their testiminies within the investigation on Berkin Elvan’s death.

Arzu Çağlan, a senior radio programmer in Best FM, has been laid off after she commemorating Berkin Elvan. “Being fired for telling the truth is better than misguiding people by telling the wrong and staying silent,” she said.

“This double standard must come to an end,” said attorneys of 8 jailed socialists within MLKP case including journalists Füsun Erdoğan and Arif Çelebi who have been jailed over 5 years.