Cenap Kürümoğlu, a local newspaper owner, has been battered by two unidentified individuals this morning. ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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 ...»

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. ...»