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.

A state-level commemoration has been held for the 768 Jewish victims of Struma Disaster, in which 768 Jews died in the Black Sea while trying to escaping the Holocaust.

Born in a tent in Roma neighborhood and obtained a university degree, Özcan Purçu is now a pre-candidate for Republican People’s Party. He shared his life story and future projects to bianet.

Haldun Açıksözlü, sued allegedly for “insulting” of former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while acting as the character “Laz marks”, was taken into custody. After paying definitive monetary fine, Açıksözlü has been released.

Freemuse monitored and documented violations of freedom of expression for musicians on www.freemuse.org in 2014.

Eser Çelik (18) submitted a complaint to the prosecutor’s office, saying that he had been tortured by bastinado an a police station in Istanbul.

Thousands of advocates assembled outside the courthouse in Ankara and marched towards Turkey’s Parliament to protest the homeland security act draft.

Following the arrest of three individuals for “insulting the president”, police raided the apartment of United June Movement activist Buğra Aydoğan affiliated with Freedom and Solidarity Party for similar charges. Later on, he was arrested.

A countrywide boycott by the appeal of Eğitim-Sen educators union and Alevi organizations has been launched as of this morning to urge authorities to remove compulsory religion classes and education in mother tongue.