Social worker Altuğgil explains why children of the massacred families should stay with relatives. "An analysis of the feudal relations necessary to protect children from abuse."

Opening for a 12th time, International Flying Broom Festival features 90 films from 26 countries. This year's main theme is the "80s".

İHD releases a report, filing the rights abuses committed by village guards, who were armed by the state in 1992 to fight against the Kurdish rebel group PKK.

Karayılan says that the PKK will not lay down their arms without anything being offered in return, but he calls for arms to be silenced.

As investigation and prosecution under Article 301 depends on ministerial approval, a lot hinges on the attitude of new Minister of Justice Ergin.

DTP MP Akın Birdal files a query for PM Erdoğan. He asks if the government plans to amend the constitution to include a clause for equality for LGBT individuals.

Özer was given prison sentences with regard to two articles published in his Çağrı magazine.

Diyarbakır Sur district mayor Demişbaş is sentenced to prison for referring to rebel PKK leader as "Mr. Öcalan". Elected in recent local elections, he is striped of the right to serve as public officer by the ruling.

Colonel Ali Öz and seven other gendarmerie officers will all be tried in a Criminal Court of Peace for negligence in the Hrant Dink murder.

DTP MP Tuncel has accused the state of supporting a certain kind of masculinity with guns.

37 years ago, three student revolutionary leaders were executed on 6 May. Here is an account of the days leading up to their deaths.

Leftist organizations call upon Swedish authorities to release Doğan, a political refugee who was condemned to life in Turkey and have serious health problems following the hunger strikes in 2000.

A trial against bianet, based on the complaint filed by police officer Muhittin Zenit, is continuing.

Trade union leaders have urged the new cabinet to protect the poor and unemployed from the crisis, to pass new trade union laws and a democratic constitution.

KAMER president Akkoç says that around 50 people have died for the same reason in the last year.

Hayri Kozanoğlu believes that the new cabinet will pursue a more pro-capitalist approach.

During today's hearing, prosecution demands acquittal of Gürsel. Yet, another case is brought against his latest book on allegations of inciting hatred.

Activists urge the government to leave content control to citizens and NGOs. Courts can easily ban access to web sites, depending on the law 5651.

44 people were killed by armed masked people at a village engagement celebration in the province of Mardin yesterday evening.

At a Freedom of Expression Conference in Istanbul, lawyers evaluated the legal basis of the protection and violation of freedom of expression in Turkey.