Advocate Tora Pekin told bianet that PM Erdoğan’s phone call intervention to Habertürk TV is punishable by 1 to 5 years of prison according to Turkish Penal Code Article 124/3.

Advocates of Bayrampaşa case requested an investigation in judicial escrows, saying that authorities attempted to vanish evidence related to Turkey's "Operation Back to Life". The aforementioned evidence is missing for 14 years.

bianet interviewed journalists Yavuz Baydar, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Amberin Zaman on the recent intervention of PM Erdoğan to Habertürk television by making a phone call during his trip to Morocco. All agreed that the government’s pressure on the press is overt now.

The European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of “inadequate investigation” and “ill-treatment and torture” in the case of Gülizar Tuncer, a human rights advocate.

Turned down by officials for collaboration, Diyarbakır Bar Association Children Rights Center distributed a bilingual pamphlet - in Turkish and Kurdish - that aimed to inform children a list of contacts in case they were subjected to violence.

Turkey’s Social Security Administration (SGK) declared that it covered several gender reassignment operations including protheses.

In a statement signed by 150 academics, most of them professors, and jurists declared that Turkey has fallen into “circumstances similar to an Extraordinary Situation".

Mahir Zeynalov, an Azerbaijan national who worked at Today’s Zaman newspaper for 4 years, have been deported after facing prosecution related to a tweet.

Turkey’s Parliament passed the bill on the “protection of private life”, a regulation that gave authorities extraordinary competencies to make URL-based restrictions like in China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

A compilation made by bianet revealed that male perpetrators left 23 women dead in January 2014. While 26 percent of women were slain for seeking divorce, 17 percent were killed in the name of honor.

At least 33 cancer patients are entering World Cancer Day in difficult prison conditions. While authorities tend to reject official release requests due to Law No 5275, cancer thriver inmates experience more traumatic stress with less treatment options.

bianet interviewed lawyers Ergin Cinmen and Efkan Bolaç on the various bans related to Ali Ismail Korkmaz case. “The ban was de facto rejected,” Bolaç said. Cinmen, in return, said protestors could file a complaint in case of right violation.

8 suspects stood trial in Kayseri 3rd High Criminal Court for the case of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a Gezi Resistance protestor who died on July 10 due to a battery. The hearing was interrupted as one of the attorneys claimed that there was an armed man in the courtroom.

According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 82 workers were killed from work-related injuries in January 2014. 82 casualties included 5 children, 2 women and 7 immigrants.

A giant hologram of PM Erdoğan delivered a speech in Izmir, causing massive satire on the social media.

bianet interviewed Berhan Soylu, an executive board member of Computer Engineers Chamber on the impact of government’s bill proposal which will regulate the internet usage.

The majority of Turkey’s prominent humor magazines allocated their covers to Bilal Erdoğan, PM Erdoğan’s son who has allegedly been summoned by prosecutors within corruption probe.

Vagus.tv Editor-in-Chief Serdar Akinan told bianet that the access to their website has been restricted for five days unlawfully with no court order.

Ayşe Nana, an Istanbulite Armenian who allegedly inspired Fellini’s La Dolce Vita with her flamboyant dance performance, died in Rome at the age of 78.

PYD Co-Chair Salih Muslim told bianet that the stakeholders in Geneva 2 talks didn’t represent the Syrian people. “They can’t enforce a ceasefire given that they didn’t have any influence on the opposing groups in Syria,” he said.