After a “sympathizer”s complaint, Penguen magazine caricaturists Baruter and Aydoğan face trial for charges related to insulting the “prime minister. Here is the timeline…

“For me, the most dramatic story about the Genocide is my family’s. My grandmother’s,” Armenian Genocide Museum Director told bianet.

Police assaulted Newroz celebrators in the southeastern province of Batman yesterday with tear gas, rubber bullets and cannoned water. Several injuries were reported.

Following an ECHR ruling that their rights were violated, a retrial of 9 defendants who were jailed for attending a protest in the southeastern district of Cizre ended with an acquittal.

A children's channel in Kurdish language’s Kurmanji, Zazaki and Sorani subdivisions will start airing on March 21 - the Newroz Day.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating torture and inhuman or degrading treatment ban in the case where police officers were acquitted for torturing Şükrü Yıldız on the grounds of “self-defense”.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay damages for failing to fair trial in the case where 3 children were affected by a mine explosion in Diyarbakır province in 1999.

A banner depicting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a Hitler-like mustache resulted in 3 insult cases across Turkey with different procedures.

5 inmates convicted to life sentence within PKK case is reportedly to serve as the secretariat of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in the upcoming days of Turkey’s resolution process.

Turan Ece, an advocate who lost his PKK guerrilla brother in 1994, officially urged authorities to return his brother’s grave and confiscated personal belongings.

A commemoration ceremony has been held for the 20th anniversary of Gazi Massacre - an incident that left 22 people dead in Istanbul’s predominantly Alevi Gazi neighborhood after a series of riots on March 12, 1995.

Even though two conscientious objectors have so far declared for pre-candidacy in the upcoming elections in Turkey, existing elections law bar them from being elected.

Romani People’s Rights Association submitted a complaint against columnist Emin Çolaşan over discrimination due to his definition of Romanis as people who “take life on the light side” and “have nothing to do with religion”.

KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık urged the Turkish government to take concrete steps on the resolution before they could lay down arms.

Law professor Yaman Akdeniz commented to bianet on the blocking of 49 websites including that of Turkey’s only Atheism Association and Charlie Hebdo magazine, saying that the number of censored sites is more the given number.

According to BIA Media Monitoring Report 2014, 22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 in prison. While the number of jailed journalists took a dive, the number of detentions, censorship and layoffs soared. Here is what happened in terms of press freedom in the past three years!

Soner Yalçın, a prominent journalist who wrote about Turkey through symbols of “Berkin” and “Bilal” on his latest book, stood trial for insulting Bilal Erdoğan - the president’s son.

Upon a motion submitted by Progressive Lawyers Union, Onur Kılıç has been released today for charges related to insulting the president.

Ramazan Akyürek, former Chamber of Intelligence Chairman, has been detained in Ankara within the murder investigation of Hrant Dink - murdered editor-in-chief of Agos newspaper.

BirGün newspaper editor-in-chief Barış İnce has been charged with 4 years and 8 months of prison for insulting pthe president of Turkey when he defended himself with an acrostic.