The new citizenship law passed in parliament has brought important changes.

Since 2007, Karay is the third person to be sentenced for threatening Agos newspaper.

Women's organisations, professional associations, trade unions and human rights activists in Diyarbakır have come together to appeal for peace.

In its annual report, Amnesty International cites many cases of human rights violations. The rights of human rights activists, refugees, homosexuals and transgender people, children and others were not respected.

The President called the Kurdish question "Turkey's most pressing problem" and warned of any further delays.

Today is the fourteenth anniversary of the first protest against unsolved disappearances in Turkey.

If the Prime Minister is sincere in his criticism of past treatment of "others", here are some suggestions, both from an academic and from bianet.

A High Criminal Court in Ankara has decided to wait until September to hear the statements of Kurdish MPs regarding their trials over speeches they have made.

At the sixth Gathering in Istanbul, Human Rights Watch rapporteur Sinclair Webb expressed worry about the treatment of children in court.

Deyrulumur monastery overturns a land survey decision which expanded neighboring villages' land in favor of its own.

At the sixth Istanbul Gathering, rights activists from Turkey and other countries discussed freedom of expression.

DTP MP Sakık said that the current climate of dialogue and the possibility of an extension of a PKK ceasefire meant that the Turkish army should also stop operations.

Demirbaş, mayor of a municipality in Diyarbakır, is hopeful about changes in state attitude on public services in Kurdish.

Demirbaş, mayor of a municipality in Diyarbakır, is hopeful about changes in state attitude on public services in Kurdish.

The Malatya murder trial continued on Friday. One defendant was released.

Around 10,000 protesters in Çağlayan, Istanbul, gathered to call for an urgent, peaceful solution to the Kurdish question rather than operations against the DTP.

Referring to the arrest of MPs in 1994, Minister of the Interior Atalay has said that such an event would not happen again.

A conference organised by the Social Change Association discussed the prevalence of hate discourses in the national media.

Baran Tursun (20) was killed with a police bullet in 2007. The police officer involved has been sentenced to 2 years and 1 month imprisonment. 10 other police officers have been acquitted.

Turkey has yet to sign the Un treaty. İHD chair Öztürkdoğan explains how it would benefit efforts to determine the fate of around 1500 disappeared persons during the 1990s.