Responding to the comments and criticisms about Turkey at the UN Universal Periodic Review, Deputy Foreign Minister has denied the systematic bans on LGBTI+ events. All LGBTI+ events have been indefinitely banned in Ankara for over 2 years.

Two people who recently attended concerts at the hall have claimed they were strip searched by the police. Zorlu PSM has said it is a "routine practice."

Meyrem was only a few days married when ISIL entered her village in 2014. She remembers giving birth next to another woman who had died in childbirth and breastfeeding her infant. Her husband has now become a father to both these young girls but having been ostracized by their relatives, are waiting for resettlement in Canada.

Subjected to transphobic attacks of her neighbors in İstanbul, trans woman Ajda says that though she has been filing criminal complaints against N.D. for threatening her with throwing nitric acid on her face, he has not been summoned to depose.

Dr. Özmadenci has been granted the Ann and Sol Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award by the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA). With the method she has developed, the FAK protein that causes tumor growth can be fought with medicine.

The women of Diyarbakır have come together in Yenişehir district and formed a human chain against male violence. Joining hands to defend women’s right to life, women have said, “We want to live” and “Enough is enough.”

Many Ezidi women who returned from ISIL captivity with children have faced rejection by their community. The series based on interviews with some of these women will run for seven days starting Monday.

University student Gülistan Doku has been missing in Dersim for 17 days now. “Help me. If my daughter is dead, I want her dead body. If she is alive, then I want her alive”, says her mother Bedriye Doku.

HDP MP Züleyha Gülüm has submitted a Parliamentary question about the transphobic attacks targeting transgender woman Ajda Ender in İstanbul: “Will you take any initiative to restore her violated fundamental rights and dignity?”

Having stabbed university student Ceren Özdemir to death in Ordu, murder suspect Özgür Arduç has been sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment.

Prof. Betül Kacar has been admitted to the NASA team created to investigate the traces of life in the universe.

The ban order came after protests for a university student who has been missing for 12 days.