Two environment advocacy organizations have filed three seperate lawsuits against hotel constructions in Cappadocia, a historical site with its worldwide-known fairy chimneys.

A Silopi district court ordered Peace and Democracy Party deputy Sebahat Tuncel to pay roughly 12,000 euros for slapping a police chief at a Newroz celebration in 2011.

Reacting to the ratification of Uludere report in a parliamentarian commission yesterday, Peace and Democracy Party deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü said the parliament missed the opportunity to be the constituent force of the peace ongoing process.

Amnesty International released a 38 page report on the freedom of expression in Turkey today, underlining a series of articles in Turkish Penal Code and Anti-Terror Act that potentially violated the freedom of expression.

Munich's Higher Regional Court declined to reserve any courtroom seats to Turkey's media in the hearing of National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi cell suspected for the murder of 10 people including 8 with Turkish roots.

A Diyarbakır military court found Kıvanç Ağaoğlu guilty of felony murder of Sevag Balıkçı, a Turkish Armenian who was shot dead under compulsory military service on April 24, 2011 - 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Alper Çağlar’s latest movie Dağ (Mountain) received this year's Golden Okra Award - an alternative prize established in 2009 against the overwhelming predominance of the patriarchal perspective and male gaze and the continuing constriction of space for women in Turkish cinema.

According to a report released by a children rights association, at least 609 children lost their lives in Turkey with 38 in workplace and 20 in school.

Human Rights Association of Turkey claimed that the officials ignored longtime the release request of Hacı Nasır, an inmate who lost his cancer fight in prison clinic on March 21.

MAZLUMDER Association Chair Ünsal and Özgür-Der Association Diyarbakır Chief Representative Yılmaz criticized the parliamentary report on Roboski Massacre which concluded that the Turkish military's air strike was not on purpose.

Local musicians from Northern Turkey released a statement today, protesting the criticism against Niyazi Koyuncu who had a concert performance at Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır province on March 21.

A group of college students, artists, local residents and activists protested a session in Istanbul's 13th Biennial yesterday, saying that certain organization funders supported Istanbul's controversial urban renewal projects.

Turkey's intellectuals, artists, academicians and activists signed a manifesto released by Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University and Stiftung Mercator Initiative to raise public awareness on climate change.

KCK Executive Council Chair Murat Karayılan declared an official ceasefire with Turkey yesterday, adding that they were ready to withdraw from Turkey depending on Turkish administration's response to the ongoing peace efforts.

Reminding that PKK leader Öcalan's call to lay down arms is irreversible, Peace and Democracy Party Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said at least two commissions would beneeded for the withdrawal.

Feminist artists Arzu Yayıntaş and Neriman Polat launched an exhibition depicting women victims' names of male violence at a traditional coffee house - a place unofficially reserved for men - in Istanbul's Tophane district.

Referring to Abdullah Öcalan's Newroz statement on the withdrawal of PKK guerrillas from Turkey, PM Erdoğan said he saw it as a positive move.

"In the witnessing of millions today I am going to start a new era. Not arms but politics. Our armed forces should withdraw beyond border," Öcalan said in his letter read during the Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır.

Hundreds of thousand people gathered in Diyarbakır this morning to celebrate the arrival of spring equinox, a major celebration among Turkey's Kurds also known as Newroz. PKK leader Öcalan's message to Kurdish people was read both in Kurdish and Turkish.

Explosions hit Turkey's Justice Ministry building and governing AKP headquarters on Tuesday night, a series of attacks later on claimed by DHKP-C organization.