It is all very natural that I am bothered when I see the ones who don’t change their eating habits though we know that a life without consuming meat and animal products is possible and, on top of that, while we live with the label of an animal lover!

The project of a coal-based thermal power plant to be built on a oak forest in Pınarça Village has been cancelled upon the release of a negative Environmental Impact Assessment report. The people of Pınarça have long been struggling against the project.

The first hearing of the case of Assoc. Prof. Bülent Şık, who is prosecuted for announcing the findings of a cancer research study by the Ministry of Health, will be held today.

After being informed of a child marriage, the Diyarbakır Bar filed a complaint at the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office but the attempts failed. HDP MP Mızraklı has brought the incident into the parliamentary agenda.

Stating that the best places in cafes and restaurants are allocated to smoking guests, Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca has said that these smoking areas will be moved to closed spaces, which will not exceed 30 percent of the whole place.

Snow images from Van, Dersim, Hakkari, Iğdır and Muş through the the lenses of photojournalists of Anadolu Agency...

Civil society organizations in İzmir have filed a lawsuit against the third positive Environmental Impact Assessment Report given for the İzdemir Power Plant to be built in Aliağa and Foça after the first two positive reports were cancelled by the court.

Referring to the health cards prepared by a hospital in Elazığ in 17 different languages, HDP MP Semra Güzel has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the issue and asked Minister of Health Koca why Kurdish has been excluded from the cards.

Five workers from Syria have lost their lives in a fire that broke out in Ankara Furniture Manufacturers’ Site in Ankara. Throughout 2018, at least 108 migrant-refugee workers lost their lives in occupational homicides in Turkey.

According to the Turkey’s Armed Violence Map and 2018 Report released by Umut Foundation, 3 thousand 679 incidents of armed violence took place throughout 2018, claiming the lives of 2 thousand 279 people and wounding 3 thousand and 762 others.

The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization has granted a positive Environmental Impact Assessment report for the Çukuralan Gold Mine. Two previous approvals were suspended and canceled by a court.

In response to a NYT article, which stated that more than a quarter of a million of people emigrated from Turkey in 2017, the Presidency has indicated that the actual figure is 113 thousand 326. What does the report of Turkish Statistical Institute say?

Football player B.J. has been arrested on charge of “sexually abusing a child” in Diyarbakır. He has rejected the allegations.

HDP Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the overflow of the Tigris Dam in December, causing some parts of Hevsel Gardens, which are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be flooded.

Presidency has released a statement refuting an article published on the New York Times regarding the number of people who have emigrated from Turkey: “The number of emigrants in 2017 is not over quarter of a million, but 113 thousand and 326 people.”

In Hacıbektaşlı village of the Manisa province, construction of a geothermal energy plant has been halted after the efforts of the villagers and CHP MP Özgür Özel. The construction was underway despite an ongoing legal process.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Leyla Güven, who has been on hunger strike in prison for 58 days, has lost her mother. Güven also lost her father while she was in prison.

According to the research “What Has Changed in 10 Years?” conducted by Konda Research and Consultancy, farming is on the verge of disappearing, the visibility of atheism has increased and certain changes have occurred in the religious structure.

The 2018 Year-End Report on Sexism in Education released by the Education and Science Workers’ Union has shown that the disadvantaged position of women, girl children and LGBTI+ individuals has become deeper over the last year.

It has been seven years since Roboski Massacre, which claimed 34 lives. Attorney Girasun says, “It is impossible for justice to be served without a change in conjuncture.” Altıparmak states that the case is “the conscientious responsibility for lawyers.”