It has been 49 years since Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, the leading figures of the 68 Generation, were executed. Police officers have intervened against the commemoration in the capital city of Ankara.

President and AKP Chair Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit for damages against main opposition CHP MP Erdoğdu, who said, “Erdoğan is the number one of criminal organization.” The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has also launched an investigation.

Hindered from covering the protests in Ankara on the 1st of May on the grounds of a recent circular issued by the Directorate General of Security, Yol TV reporter Özge Uyanık has filed a criminal complaint against the police officers.

In a phone call on May 5, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan and Russia’s President Putin discussed the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic and the Sputnik V vaccine as well as the situation in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Interior Ministry inspectors are probing İmamoğlu because of "walking with his hands folded behind the back" at the tomb of Sultan Mehmed II and his visits to dismissed HDP mayors.

HDP İstanbul MP Hüda Kaya has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of National Defense Akar, asking him a series of questions about the death of Caner Sarmaşık, who allegedly committed suicide during his mandatory military service.

The allies of the government have proposed a new constitution preserving the presidential system and the "irrevocable" articles of the current constitution.

The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that the broadcasting and publication ban imposed on the news regarding the Parliamentary investigation launched against four ministers for “corruption” violated freedom of expression.

Hale Yeşilnil tells us about her sister Jale's birth and her 17 years of life, while author Kadir Akın speaks of their days together at the Göztepe Cultural Association, the police attack during their final farewell to her, and the graveside commemoration for her, 43 years later.

Kerestecioğlu applied to the ECtHR after she was stripped of MP status in 2016.

İmamoğlu is also under investigation for visiting HDP mayors who were dismissed by the Interior Ministry over "terrorism-related" investigations against them.

Attorneys of HDP politicians have submitted new petitions to the court after it was understood that it referred to the case to the appeals court ignoring their petitions.

We heard the story of teacher Bayram Çıtak from his eldest son, Mete Çıtak, who lives in Izmir, and from his friend Selahattin Koçak from the Alliance and Solidarity Association of All Teachers (TÖB-DER) and the Unity Solidarity movement.

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.”