English PEN is campaigning on freedom of expression in Turkey throughout 2013 to raise awareness of current threats to writers, publishers, translators and journalists.

A police officer shot and killed Muhammet Öyke (21) who was riding in a car that allegedly ignored police warnings to halt. After the amendement in Turkey’s Police Officer Duty Act, the latest incident rose the toll of police killings rose to 127.

A new mock website allows users to check online whether they have been sued over defamation charges by Melih Gökçek, Ankara’s controversial mayor.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty for violating right to life, torture ban, and right to freedom and security in the 1994 Ormancık case on the disappearance of 13 village guards under gendarmerie detention, the killing on 1 villager, and the burning down of a village.

Ayşe Berktay, a jailed translator convicted of being a KCK organization member, received PEN American Center's 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

An Istanbul court convicted Pianist Fazıl Say of blasphemy over his tweets, ordering him to serve 10 months of prison - a sentence that was later on suspended.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating the torture ban, ordering the Turkish state to pay Yasin Böber, a police violence victim, a sum of 21,500 euros.

Roma People Social Help and Solidarity Association of Izmir demand equal rights for Roma people in Turkey's new constitution in various matters including longing and education.

A group of students from Istanbul's Notre Dame de Sion High School recorded a video to support sociologist Pınar Selek. "I won't keep silent so that people will live freely and equally. I want to defend my opinions freely," the video said.

Turkey's main forensics institute did not the claims of police officer who said "I slipped and then my gun fired" in the Demirkaya case.

Stelyo Berber from Imroz underlined that their island became a "childless" island for half a century and added: "It was the most concrete step for 50 years."

Amnesty International released a 38 page report on the freedom of expression in Turkey today, underlining a series of articles in Turkish Penal Code and Anti-Terror Act that potentially violated the freedom of expression.

A Diyarbakır military court found Kıvanç Ağaoğlu guilty of felony murder of Sevag Balıkçı, a Turkish Armenian who was shot dead under compulsory military service on April 24, 2011 - 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

According to a report released by a children rights association, at least 609 children lost their lives in Turkey with 38 in workplace and 20 in school.

Human Rights Association of Turkey claimed that the officials ignored longtime the release request of Hacı Nasır, an inmate who lost his cancer fight in prison clinic on March 21.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty for inflicting torture on Ayhan Mimtaş, ordering the Turkish state to pay 12,750 euros as damages.

An Istanbul court arrested Kaan Ünsal, a leftist magazine staff, for being an illegal organization member.

The public servants who had been kidnapped by the PKK have been handed over to a delegation. After meeting with their families in Zaho, they have entered Turkey from Habur.

An MP of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has presented his party’s disagreements with the report prepared by the Uludere Subcommittee to the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigating Committee.

Ünsal Yıldız, chairperson of Turkey's prominent educators union, said that they were encouraging their teacher members to keep "state-censored" classic literature pieces in their curriculum with the original version.