The construction of two hotels in Turkey's historical Cappadocia have been suspended after massive protests from local residents who said the city's culture preservation council allowed many other controversial projects.

In Yüksekova district, a panel organized by a Kurdish language association on Monday undermined the liaison between Kurdish language and history, saying that Kurdish people kept their language despite assimilation politics.

A new movie theater has been established in Agri, one of the seven remaining provinces without a public film screening venue.

Kayapınar City Mayor assistant Servet Yılmaz and Tüm-Bel Sen Diyarbakır Branch President Medeni Apkaya spoke to bianet on the court decision to ban the names of Cegerxwîn Youth and Cultural Centre and 19 parks in the district.

Movie lovers came together for Emek Movie Theater on April 15, 2012. They protested against the Emek Movie Theater project of Kamer Construction Company. They shouted "We do not watch this movie" and tore their tickets.

I would like Turkish language to understand how genuinely beautiful, colorful and really meaningful is Bianet's opening page on February 21, 2012.

The Istanbul International Short Film Festival started on 23 November. 156 productions from various countries are being shown at the 23rd festival.

A hardly appropriate tribute to the great singer Farid el Atrash alias FareeQ el Atrash. The collective started rapping polished and realistic texts in Arabic three years ago.

When I was a kid, I'd tell my mother that I wanted to become an artist. I don't think she took me seriously back then, because this didn't seem like a realistic career (it still doesn't). I loved drawing a lot as a kid, then as a teenager I realised that I could express my inner 'self' in words too.

Alin, Masha and Nader live in the outskirts of Rome. They have different stories, aspirations, fears and the usual difficulty of being adolescents of foreign origin in a country that refuses its cultural diversity. Claudio Giovannesi deals with all this in his new documentary.

In Spain integration happens through music. In an intercultural society, cultural barriers are broken down. This is the message a punk band from Madrid called Ska P is trying to spread through countless concerts throughout Europe and Latin America.

The departments in the southeast Cizre municipality building, controlled by the pro-Kurdish BDP are titled in both Turkish and Kurdish. Inspite that Turkey officially recognizes only the Turkish language locals mother tongue Kurdish, will be openly used in public institutions. says deputy mayor Gölçe.

Thousands of people in Diyarbakir commemorated world-famous Armenian musician Aram Tigran on his first death anniversary in a concert at the Batikent Square.

Nadire Mater looks back in her latest book where she talks to 21 of the leading figures who took to the streets that year in Turkey. The book places the 68 movement in context -both locally and globally- while revealing the different colors of the youth rebellion.

For the last three days, it has been snowing in Istanbul. Although the snow has brought chaos to the city, it has also added beauty.

The prosecution has reacted to controversy over a song praising Hrant Dink's murder suspects and started an investigation. Human rights groups are filing a suit additionally.