1.500 union workers occupied their Renault car factory in Bursa, protesting a collective labor agreement. Attacks were reported on some dozen workers joining the protest from another factory.

The Turkish government has submitted to parliament a reform allowing defendants to use languages other Turkish in court, a key demand of jailed hunger strikers.

"We see PM Erdogan advocating for death penalty now, but we should also remember how he used to read aloud death row prisoner's letters in his public speeches."

The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects called President Gül to use his veto power concerning the new municipality bill, saying that reducing the number of municipalities will reinforce the central government and dilute the local governance.

An artillery shell fired by the Syrian Army during a military operation against the Free Syrian Army hit Ceylanpınar District in Turkey. UN warned that the number of Syrian refugees fleeing to Turkey is surging rapidly.

Calling hunger strikes as “show”, “blackmail” and citing examples from the world, PM Erdogan declared on Sunday: “We should reconsider the death penalty in Turkey.”

“If you are not in favor of the views of some journalists, you just would not buy that newspaper. However, governments have no right to imprison journalists when they do not appreciate their work. At least in democracies,” says Kati Marton of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Idris Baluken, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Vice Chairman, announced that 8 BDP deputies will start hunger strike on Saturday and other deputies will join various protests after BDP's political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue did not yield any results.

According to data compiled by bianet, 10 women and 1 infant were killed by men in October 2012. 16 women and teenagers were raped and 8 women wounded. 1 rape victim committed suicide.

According to bianet's records, 13 women were killed, 12 women and two boys were raped, 16 women were injured and nine women were sexually harassed by men in September. Three women, who were victims of domestic violence, committed suicide.

According to the records of bianet, men killed 16 women and three men in August. Thirty-one women, four men and one child were injured; 18 women were raped; 11 women were sexually harassed by men. Men killed a total of 114 women in the first eight months of 2012.

The Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Mersin Deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü spoke to bianet about the trying conditions in prisons where hundreds of inmates launched a hunger strike over a month ago. Lawyer Cemil Özen also warned about the prisoners’ deteriorating health condition.

The “Middle East Conference” organized by the People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) at Istanbul’s Bosphorus University ended with a 13 point declaration calling for the unity of the peoples in the region. The panelists covered a range of topics from the ongoing conflict in Syria to Palestine and the latest developments in Turkey.

A court in Istanbul sentenced journalist Reyhan Çapan, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the daily Özgür Gündem, to one year and three months in prison for a single headline that appeared on the paper.

Metin Bakkalcı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV,) spoke to bianet about the ongoing hunger strikes initiated by 615 inmates to protest the obstacles that lie before the use of the Kurdish language and the continued isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK.)

Turkey falls into a category all on its own with respect to clamping down on journalists, according to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ.) The report indicates that Turkey broke its own record in arresting journalists, with some 76 press workers currently serving time behind bars.

The Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning approved a decision to fill the coastline in Istanbul’s Yenikapı district with land and transform it into a meeting square. Critics, however, believe a nearby UNESCO World Heritage Site is likely to be the first victim of that scheme and that the project has to do with the politics of public space.

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ratified a life-time imprisonment sentence against Atılım newspaper’s editor-in-chief Hatice Duman, just as it overturned a sentence of nearly 19 years in prison for journalist Necati Abay who was also standing trial in the same case.

Turkish air force jets forced a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to land while it was bound for Damascus over Turkish air space on Oct. 11. Turkish officials also ordered another Armenian passenger plane bound for Aleppo to land in the northeastern province of Erzurum today. Such moves are legal but hostile acts that are not in conformity with regular aviatian practices, according to Assistant Prof. Volkan Günel.

A trustee board member at Istanbul’s Yeni Yüzyıl University ordered the dismissal of 17 faculty members in flagrant violation of due procedures. Students believe the move was a consequence of the administration’s desire to refashion the university in line with the views of the government. Meanwhile, eight research assistants at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) were also laid off, with hundreds more potentially facing the same prospect.