"They have Armenians living in their countries, so many of which live in Turkey. We could have deported them, but we didn’t." said President Erdoğan.

In Ege University, the students’ balloon demonstration as well as planting trees, doing folkdances, issuing press statements became reasons for investigation.

Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink was acquitted in the trial where she was charged with “engaging in PKK propaganda” over social media.

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts (IKSV) announced they were canceling the screening of A Guerilla Documentary Bakur/North after a warning from the Ministry of Culture. 22 films consequently withdrew from the film festival to protest what was widely viewed as censorship.

On Saturday, April 11th, the General Staff declared that in an armed conflict that broke out between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) prior to a tree-planting activity in Ağrı province’s Diyadin district, 5 members of the PKK had been killed, and one PKK member and four military personnel had been injured.

After Pope Francis deemed the 1915 events genocide, Ankara called in Vatican Ambassador Paçacı for consultation and reported “disappointment and sorrow”.

Perihan Çalış who lost her 18-year-old son in the Soma mine disaster reacts to the jailed defendants not being brought to court and says, “They see their children, if only through metal bars. What about us?”

Attorney Leyla Han Tüzel recounted the “non-beeping underwear” argument with the deputy chief prosecutor in Bakırköy Courthouse; “They want people to go into courthouses the way they go into prisons. That logic is what we are opposing here.”

“Although the call to zero tolerance for torture was continuously reiterated, practices of torture and ill treatment by the police have not ended, and the form of torture reflected on the street has become more visible and damaging,” wrote TİHV in their 2014 rights violations report.

Prosecutor Demirel who was in charge of investigating the crimes of public officials in the Bayrampaşa leg of the Operation Back to Life was sentenced in his trial to 1 year in prison for “misuse of duty through neglect”.

bianet writers Mustafa Sütlaş and Şeyhmus Diken commented on the investigation launched against them for “turning people against military service” by contributing to the book “Don’t Serve in the Military Because…”

Turkey’s first and second division soccer leagues have been suspended for one week after an armed assault on Fenerbahçe team’s player transfer bus on Saturday.