People have reacted against the plans to build sixth thermal power plant in Zonguldak’s Çatalağzı.

Syrian refugee Safaa Sayah, coming to the panel as speaker in İstanbul by permission of Urfa Governorate is not allowed to leave the country, nor granted permission to carry out her academic duties in Turkey.

Tamer Korkmaz staying in the same prison as convicted Osman Evcan staging a hunger strike due to not being given vegan food over 37 days wrote that Evcan has entered risky days, and added that “Ministry of Justice and prison administration is silent”.

The Year-End Book Fair organized by Aras and İstos publishing houses together lets booklovers meet the cultures of Armenians and Rums, two autochthonous folks of Anatolia.

In Cizre district of Şırnak province, a person named Salih Erdem has been shot to death on the street during police and military operations.

Journalist Tatari’s book “Grandma, I was not really in Diyarbakır” and Cemal’s books “Delila, A Young Woman Guerilla’s Mountain Diaries” and “Kurdistan Diaries in the Solution Process” have been ordered to be pulled off the shelves, Ahmet Işık has also been sentenced to a punitive fine of 1,232 euros for having defamed Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication.

According to a report of the Committee to Protect Journalists, 14 journalists out of 199 arrested journalists all over the world, are in prison in Turkey.

Cumhuriyet daily is holding its editorial meeting today (December 15) in Silivri in order to support the arrested journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül.

Kamuran Karaca, Chairperson of the Trade Union of Employees in Education and Science has pointed out that curfews deprive children of their right to education and traumatize students and teachers severely.

Curfew has been declared in Nusaybin district of Mardin province as of 4 p.m., which has been the fifth curfew declared in the district.

Police launched attack on march protesting curfews, two people shot to death, three others wounded.

Police used gas bombs on rally organized by HDP in Diyarbakır where the Governorate had called for the citizens to “not participate” prior to the rally claiming it was illegal.

Johnny Cash was one of the first white artists revealing wrongfulness and injustice the natives of North America had to face. Human rights defender Cash used to insistently sing the song “Ballad of Ira Hayes” from the activist singer Peter La Farge.

Curfew has been declared again in Şırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts.

In the congress held with the occasion of the 67th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, political freedom of expression in Turkey has been discussed.

Local journalist Sinan Aygül in Bitlis has been imposed a punitive fine for using the expression “wolf journalist” on a report about a corruption which Vahit Kiler, then MP of AKP was involved in.

Curfew in Turkey’s southeastern Sur district of Diyarbakır has been lifted after nine days yet police continue controlling entries and exits in prohibited neighborhoods

Refugee Policy which Turkey was “proud” of, has been changed due to EU-Agreement, the border crossing to the Turkish side is also about to be closed and the refugees might be deported.

Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ gave instruction for journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül arrested for making news of MİT trucks to stay in the same cell.

Jews’ Hanukkah has been celebrated all over the world, why not in İstanbul?