Kurdish deputies Ahmet Türk and Ayla Akat Ata visited PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan yesterday afternoon in Imrali Prison.

On January 18, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky will hold lecture dedicated to the memorial of Hrant Dink in Bogazici University, Istanbul.

The 6th Diyarbakir High Criminal Court found 40 defendants guilty for being a KCK organization member, ordering prison sentences from six years and three months to seventeen years.

Alevi police officer Erol Uygun committed suicide on Sunday evening with allegations that he frequently received pressures on his beliefs from his colleagues.

December 28 marked as the first anniversary of Roboski Massacre, where 34 Kurdish civilivians on the southeastern border lost their lives after a Turkish military air strike. While the official investigation has yet to transform into prosecution, the beloved ones of Roboski victims demand for justice.

A special media prosecution office in Istanbul has decided to voluntarily discontinue criminal charges for bianet staff on Thursday, upon the defamation complaint from Sedat Selim Ay, Istanbul's Police Commissioner on Anti-Terrorism.

Thousands of demonstrators assembled in Roboski village this morning, commemorating the death of 34 civilians after a Turkish military air strike exactly last year.

An Istanbul court found 6 defendants guilty for carrying a banner including hate speech against Armenians, sentencing them to 5 month of prison which was later on commuted to a fine.

An Ankara court found Taraf newspaper columnist Ahmet Altan guilty for insulting PM Erdogan, ordering Altan to pay roughly 8,000 euros for non-pecuniary damages, a verdict that Taraf newspaper announced to take to ECHR.

Şırnak province police swooped on several flats yesterday, detaining 19 individuals only 4 days before the first anniversary of Roboski Massacre, which Peace and Democracy Party deputy Hasip Kaplan reminded.

An Istanbul court ruled prison sentences to 6 police officers and suspended their professional licenses for assaulting a driver after a minor traffic accident.

A Tunceli province prosecutor rejected a lawsuit demanding the removal of approximately 11,000 land mines on the outskirts of Sarıtaş village.

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality rejected a proposal concerning the billboard advertisement of a new movie on Turkish prisons, making no explanations.

PM Erdogan filed a lawsuit against BirGün newspaper for defamation charges, asking for 100,000 Turkish liras as non-pecuniary damages when the newspaper published his front page photo with a black tape on his mouth on November 26.

Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin admitted that police brutality denigrated the state authority when it caused deaths and said: "Though security officers should not hesitate to exercise force to intervene protests."

Roma People Rights Forum of Turkey condemned a questionnaire distributed by a researcher on Roma people's religious practices saying that it fed existing prejudices and discrimination.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty in Ahmet Yıldırım case for violating freedom of expression when a Turkish court decided to block access to Google Sites.

Major journalist associations including Journalists' Union of Turkey and International Press Institute protested the arrest of Evrensel newspaper journalist Sadiye Eser for terrorism charges.

A journalists initiative made a public invitation to send New Year's cards to Turkey's jailed journalists, saying that un-jailed journalists' hearts and minds will always be with their colleagues in 2013.

The case of Pınar Selek--Turkish sociologist who was found not guilty for involving in the 1998 Spice Bazaar bombing in previous three prosecutions over 14 years--was held this afternoon by a criminal court in Istanbul.