Bayram Sekmen has lost his life in the landslide caused by flood in the district of İkizce in Ordu.

Applications for the 8th Pink Life QueerFest can be submitted until October 1, 2018. Pink Life LGBTT Association has announced the rules and terms of application.

Presidency of Religious Affairs has said that “Islamic Education Center” will be built on land of 200 decares where Halki Seminary is situated in Heybeliada. Architect Korhan has evaluated the plan for bianet.

An inflatable boat with 16 people on board have capsized on its way from Ayvalık in Balıkesir to the Lesbos Island in Greece. Six people, three of whom were babies, have lost their lives, one person has gone missing and nine people have been rescued.

Restaurants serving alcohol in Heybeliada in İstanbul have been sent anonymous letters of threat containing the alleged sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.

Police barriers around Human Rights Monument where educators Gülmen and Özakça staged protests have been lifted after 430 days.

Toprak is a 22-year old student of medicine. "I want a world in which trans people succeed, not being burned to death”, says Toprak.

Leaflets titled “Homosexuality threat” have been dropped in mail boxes and streets in Osmaniye. In the previous days, leaflets including homophobic hate speech were distributed in Ankara and İzmir as well.

The Human Rights Watch has stated that the bill prescribing State of Emergency practices to be in effect for three more years “ends rule of law”.

Hundreds of people have demanded that they get involved in the court case of a man named B.Ç. who raped a kitten in İstanbul. The court board has accepted the demands. The attorneys think that the course of the case will also have an impact on the animal rights laws to be enacted.

Human Rights Watch has announced that Turkey has stopped registering the recently arrived asylum seekers from Syria, which “is leading to unlawful deportations, coerced returns to Syria, and the denial of health care and education.”

Bringing two sides of Aegean together, Gathering for Peace starts today. To be organized from July 13 to July 15, the program will be realized at Greece’s Leros Island.

Kaos GL has taken Ankara Governorship’s indefinite ban of LGBTI events to the ECtHR. Stating that European Convention on Human Rights has been violet, the association demands that the court issue injunction.

Stories of people who lost their lives in the train accident in Çorlu...

The Animal Rights Federation of Turkey has announced that the licence of the cafe in İstanbul keeping a lion, crocodile, flamingo and parrots in captivity has been cancelled.

Another decree has been issued within scope of State of Emergency, which will mark its second year on July 20. Nuclear Regulatory Board whose members will appointed by president through the decree has been formed.

Sabah, Akşam, Star, Türkiye, Güneş and Akit newspapers have covered Erdoğan’s presidential ceremony, Yeni Şafak has covered decrees, and Takvim has covered Yıldırım’s intervention in a citizen attempting suicide.

24 of 362 passengers have lost their lives as a result of train derailing en route on Edirne-İstanbul.

A cafe called Mevzoo is detaining a baby lion in a cage placed among the customers in İstanbul. Crocodile, flamingo and parrots are aslo kept in captivity.

AKP Group Deputy Chair Elitaş has said, “We believe that the State of Emergency will have been lifted at July 18 night”. The State of Emergency was declared on July 21, 2016.