4 defendants stood trial for calling PM Erdoğan a “dictator” on Tuesday. PM Erdoğan's motion to join the case was granted as “he was affected”, advocate Bolaç said that the word “dictator” was within the limits of free expression.

The first reaction towards the implementation of the internet censorship bill came from Turkey’s news websites with putting black tapes on their logos.

The ‘overwhelmed’ masses, the majority of whom are composed of paid employees, displayed a reaction against the government, which had intervened in citizens’ lifestyles and whose unlawful policies were based on unequal growth and development. This reaction showed us that class struggle was not a phenomenon to be relegated merely to the workplace, but also in the urban sphere and daily life.

In a statement signed by 150 academics, most of them professors, and jurists declared that Turkey has fallen into “circumstances similar to an Extraordinary Situation".

A giant hologram of PM Erdoğan delivered a speech in Izmir, causing massive satire on the social media.

While the majority of older people have taken for granted to be governed by a hypocritical and corrupted state, the young ones revolted. Today nothing is as before in Turkey.

According to a new draft bill submitted to Turkey’s Parliament, it will be necessary to seek PM’s consent for prosecutions on military chiefs who will be tried in the Supreme Court.

Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court ordered the release of jailed BDP deputies Gülser Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan after a recent constitutional court ruling.

The Council of State, Turkey’s supreme court that adjudicates on administrative issues, blocked the government regulation to force police and prosecutors to disclose investigations to their superiors.

3 cabinet ministers declared their resignations this morning with resigner Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar urging PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to resign as well.

Peace and Democracy Party Youth Assembly informed that their Facebook page has recently been closed down.

While chief prosecutor Çolakkadı announced that the prosecutors on the corruption probe case were not dismissed, police authorities said they have dismissed the aforementioned police commissioners.

The government often accuses Turkey’s human rights groups of doing the work of “foreign powers,” which scares off local donors. But when rights groups seek foreign funding, they get attacked for taking “imperialist money.”

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish deputies spent the night at the parliament hall within a hunger strike to protest the recent rejection of release request for jailed deputies.

Fiscal Crimes Police detained 22 suspects including construction mogul Ali Ağaoğlu, Fatih district mayor Demir and sons of three cabinet ministers.

bianet interviewed Dilan Dursun, a Gezi protestor who suffered from brain injury due to tears gas bomb canister after Ethem Sarısülük’s funeral ceremony on June 16.

Despite the heavy snow, thousands in Yüksekova district bid farewell to Bemal Tokçu, a protestor who died on December 7 due to police fire.

Istanbul 16th High Criminal Court ordered the release of academician Yalçın Küçük and former police commissioner Hanefi Avcı. However, they will remain in prison for other convictions.

161 defendants stood trial first time in the central province of Kayseri for charges related to attending Gezi Resistance protests.

Facing investigation by Turkey’s Professional Disciplinary Council after wearing an undershirt saying “Thank You Madiba”, Didier Drogba released a statement and a photo of him with Nelson Mandela.