Hrant Dink Foundation has released its quarterly report on “Hate Speech in Media and Discriminatory Discourse” for the January - April 2013 period. Columnists marked as the biggest hate speech makers in Turkey. It also included the media coverage on BDP and HDK’s trip to Black Sea Region.

Hakkari Mayor Bedirhanoğlu has been convicted to 15 months of prison for attending the funeral ceremony of Ferdane Kına, a PKK guerrilla.

bianet interviewed a group of people who fled from the civil war in Syria and moved to Turkey’s Hatay province. “I hope Turkey and Syria will not become enemies. I hope our children will grow up here,” a woman said.

“What our Prime Minister said about having 3 children is only the minimum. We will need more young working population in the years to come,” said SGK President Yadigar Gökalp Ilhan, raising the bar to 5 children.

600 policemen have attacked 6 activists who walked from the southern province to Istanbul in order to protest police violence and demand for justice, Ahmet Saymadi said. According to BDP deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü, police sprayed pepper gas from close distance, leaving him injured.

“We certainly believe that we will be on air with our new channels soon. We are working on the issue,” Erdal Er, a programmer from recently unlicensed Nuçe TV told bianet.

A solitary-living Armenian woman (80) has been assaulted in Istanbul’s Feriköy neighborhood - a reminder of assaults on elderly Armenian women in Samatya around December 2012.

Turkey’s Council of State rejected a motion submitted by Fatih District Municipality on the cancellation of a suspension order for Sulukule urban renewal project. The municipality’s new project also became subjected to prosecution.

Jiyan Semt Pazarı, a district market recently opened in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, will only accept female employees.

Saying that ROJ TV and producer firm Mezopotamya TV were unable to make a payment of 10 million Danish krones (roughly 1.4 million euros), ROJ TV General Manager Imdat Yılmaz said they filed for bankruptcy.

Erdoğan’s AKP administration has had more than a decade to fix this imbalance in Turkey’s anti-terror legislation. Despite repeated attempts at reform in recent years, the desperate situation in relation to these provisions persists.

A group of 30 people reportedly assaulted on trans sex workers in Ankara’s Iskitler district last night.