The Ankara Bar Association has appealed to the Council of State and requested the annulment of the circular of the Directorate General of Security that bans recording voices and images during public incidents.

Religious officials in Mardin's Tur Abdin area welcome the decision.

The people who wanted to object to the results of the 2017 Constitutional referendum which resulted in Turkey’s adoption of the Presidential Government System were both hindered and faced with a lawsuit. They have been acquitted.

Releasing a report on violations of press freedom in April, CHP MP Çakırözer has raised concerns that the circular of the Directorate General of Security "started to be implemented in a way that restricts freedom of expression and press from the first day."

The Peoples’ Democratic Party has stated that the government carries out cross-border military operations in every domestic and international political crisis, adding that these military operations aggravate the crises even further.

"After losing my father, I never missed a First of May rally. This state owes me, because it was the state that murdered my father," says Zeki Eyi, who lost his father at the age of 17.

Birsen Kement was 17 when she lost her father, Rasim Elmas. When she was told at police headquarters, “You’ll find your father in the morgue,” she only heard part of it. She says when she opened her eyes on May 2, she had “doubled in age overnight.”

The head of both Nationalist Front governments of 1977 was Süleyman Demirel. For Turkey, the year of May 1st massacre was a year of attacks, deaths, coup allegations, trials of those subjected to violations and impunity for responsible parties.

Published by bianet as an e-book as well, the series of "The Voices of Those Who Lost Their Loved Ones/ 1 May ‘77 and Impunity" is now preparing to meet its English-speaking audience, starting from the 1st of May.

The Ankara Bar has appealed to the Council of State and requested the suspension of the execution of the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages imposed on shops during the ‘full lockdown’ despite not being included in the Interior Ministry’s circular.

Amid reports of human smuggling with service-stamped passports as part of municipal programs, an investigation has been launched against 30 people suspected to bring or attempt to bring at least 213 people to Germany in October-November.

Academics have revealed that the construction laboratory project started last year.

The Court of Cassation has upheld the prison sentence of 4 years, 8 months given to jailed former HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş. Commenting on the issue, HDP’s Dede has said, “The judiciary does what is required by the instruction it received.”

The court has concluded that main opposition CHP İstanbul Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu insulted President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan with her social media messages. Kaftancıoğlu will pay 56 thousand lira in non-pecuniary damages.

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that specialist corporal Hüsamettin Gökçe has lost his life during the military operation in Iraq’s north.

Stripped of his MP status, HDP Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu started keeping a justice watch at the Parliament in mid-March 2021. An indictment has been issued against the jailed politician due to this protest.

The 16th Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation has overturned the acquittal of 35 people from the Beşiktaş sports club’s fan group “çArşı” who were put on trial following the Gezi resistance of 2013.

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HDP İstanbul MP Kenanoğlu has asked Vice President Oktay a series of questions regarding the de facto ban on alcohol sales during the 17-day full lockdown even though the Interior Ministry’s circular does not refer to such a ban.

While the ruling AKP and MHP and the opposition CHP and İYİ Party have approved the declaration signed by Parliamentary Speaker Şentop, the HDP has rejected the declaration condemning US President Biden’s recognition of Armenian genocide.