“Promised constitutional and other legal reforms did not occur. Instead, the right to freedom of expression was threatened and protesters faced increased police violence” cites Amnesty International Report in the section about Turkey.

The fourth judicial reform package repeals the statute of limitations on torture cases changes the regulation on prosecution of public officials accused of killing or wounding people.

“Using the word 'guerilla' is not a crime" said Gunaydın, reminding the ECHR case law.

Emine would be graduated as a journalist a year later, however she’s been in jail for nine months, like hundreds of other arrested students.

Istanbul 9. High Criminal Court decided for a 1-month ban of weekly Demokratik Vatan newspaper.

At the end of Conscientious Objection Week, 14 people declared their conscientious objections following the march from Tünel to Taksim Square.

The families who lost their relatives in work accidents will gather together each week. They say, “We call this as “workplace murders” not “work accidents” and we know the perpetrators; enough is enough!”

Circassian in Turkey marched to the Russian Consulate building and asked for the recognition of the Circassian Genocide occurred 148 years ago on May 21, 1864.

“Lawyers sometimes do not attend to the court hearings in order to prevent the court’s decision however the court violates the right to defense by not collecting defense evidences” told Lawyer Cinmen.

Following the Roboski Massacre news of WSJ, Head of Uludere sub-commission Üstün (AKP), Deputy Prime Minister Bozdağ, Güler and Gök (CHP) made statements.

Women board members of the Ankara University Political Science Alumni Association visited KESK women at Sincan L Type Prison.

Malatya Chief Public Prosecutor Office demanded specially authorized prosecutors from HCJP. There are 1500 files waiting at the prosecution office.

According to an article published in WSJ, a U.S. drone flew away to spot some images just before the Roboski massacre.

When a local Rum inhabitant of Gökçeada wanted to buy a property in the Island she was told that the "procedure was long" but that if she bought it in the name of her husband-to-be procedures would be completed immediately.

National Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz announced that a total of 2221 soldiers “died of suicide” throughout the past 22 years.

An inmate from Engin Çeber’s ward described how Çeber was beaten. “The second prison warden told ‘You’ll be punished like him if you do not stand up for roll call’ while he was beating him.”

Following Silivri Prison visit of the journalists with Minister of Justice, we talked to Mr. Z who had been the guest of prison for long years. He doesn’t agree that the prison food is of good quality.

Turkey ranks first among the number of countries convicted for rights violations by the European Court of Human Rights in between 1959-2011.

Amnesty International noted that TMK did not comply with the international standards and emphasized the importance of fair trial once again following the prison sentence of Cihan Kırmızıgül.

"There are a few journalists that are in prison due to their journalistic activities in Turkey. I do not accept that there are hundreds of them” said Vice Prime Minister Arınç.