As the unilateral ceasefire of the PKK has come to an end, no concrete plans for a peace process have emerged yet.

A parliamentary report on the murder of 44 people in a village in Mardin questioned the role of the gendarmerie and blamed a general lack of education for the tragedy.

Transgender Esmeray has taken two police officers to court for beating her.

The new citizenship law passed in parliament has brought important changes.

Since 2007, Karay is the third person to be sentenced for threatening Agos newspaper.

Women's organisations, professional associations, trade unions and human rights activists in Diyarbakır have come together to appeal for peace.

Operations in five provinces have led to the detention of 35 trade unionists.

In its annual report, Amnesty International cites many cases of human rights violations. The rights of human rights activists, refugees, homosexuals and transgender people, children and others were not respected.

The President called the Kurdish question "Turkey's most pressing problem" and warned of any further delays.

People in Nusaybin, a border district with Syria, believe that locals rather than private companies, should make use of any land cleared of mines.

According to a preliminary examination by engineers, the Bursa hospital where a fire broke out was not prepared for an emergency.

Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the first protest against unsolved disappearances in Turkey.