The RSF has nominated Cumhuriyet columnist Güsel, who has been in prison for 117 days, as a candidate for Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

Vice PM Kaynak has declared that the Syrians won’t be conferred until April 16, which is the date of constitutional amendment referendum. İstanbul Governor Şahin has said the files concerning citizenship of 2,000 Syrians have been sent to Ankara.

Publishers from Turkey have met with publishers from Armenia as part of a joint project launched by the TYB and Antares Publishing House.

Students who choose take the two-hour-per-week “Living Languages and Dialects” course offered in some primary and secondary schools often say of their mother tongues: “I can understand but can’t speak”. After a while, understanding will not be enough anymore; they will want to speak, write and create. But Is it possible that these courses can be effective?

HDP has issued an urgent call to international institutions for Mardin’s Kuruköy village, which has not been heard from over 10 days.

A fire has broken out in Müjdat Gezen Art Center in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district. “It is an arson”, Gezen said.

Saying “I can’t accept [the discharges of academics]”, publisher-writer Tanıl Bora has closed the lecture titled “Political Thoughts in Turkey” he gave for 15 years at Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences.

We, the filmmakers of Turkey, who came together in the 67th Berlin Film Festival, are behind our very first call for peace. Therefore, we are calling for support from our colleagues all over the world to rise up the solidarity against censorship, oppression and war politics.

Abdulgadir Masharipov who killed 39 people in a gun attack during the new year celebrations in Reina nightclub in Ortaköy of İstanbul was arrested on Saturday.

During 2016, 150 children were detained and 40 others were arrested during demonstrations or house raids, over six children were tortured, according to a report prepared by İHD Diyarbakır Branch.

Two soldiers have lost their lives, 15 others have been injured in the armed clashes between the Turkish Armed Forces and ISIS in Operation Euphrates Shield carried out in Al-Bab region of Syria.

The curfew in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak will be in effect between 11 p.m. and 02.30 a.m. as of today.