The lawyer of DİHA reporter Abdurrahman Gök says that an objection to his arrest has been rejected. He says that he will file a complaint for torture and maltreatment after seeing the medical file.

The Pink Amsterdam event which was organised previously to draw attention to homophobia and transphobia in Amsterdam and Istanbul is now also coming to Istanbul. There will be a conference and a night of music with DJs and musicians at Ghetto.

Students handing out flyers near the Istanbul University Beyazit campus were attacked with sticks and bottles when they criticised the AKP. 5 students were injured.

Journalists Gökçer Tahincioğlu and Kemal Göktaş faced a prison sentence for reporting that police, secret service and the gendarmerie had been given permission to listen in to all phone conversations. They have been acquitted.

Assoc. Prof. Yeğen argues that neither Kurds nor Turks are happy with the AKP’s “embarrassed recognition” of the Kurdish question.

Five Turkish-Armenian men and one woman have been voted into municipal councils in four district municipal councils in Istanbul.

Evaluating the election results, Türk from the DTP said that the “charity approach” of the AKP has not worked. The DTP has won in Diyarbakır, a city that Erdoğan wanted to win in, as well as in seven provincial and 51 district municipalities.

Local elections were held yesterday and I arrived at the polling station only to find that I have to climb the stairs to do so. Despite the law, electoral commissions fail to provide due arrangements for disabled persons.

The second Ergenekon indictment speaks about the murders of Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter and DEP MP Mehmet Sicar. It also mentions the disappearance of two HADEP politicians in 2001.

The second indictment in the Ergenekon case, accepted by court, claims that the organisation planned to take over the PKK and HADEP, and that it had relations with the MLKP.

Dicle News Agency condemned the police action against their reporter, Abdurrahman Gök. He's accused of "making terrorist propaganda". Currently, four reporters of the agency are in prison.

Reporters without Borders has reported that Kurdish Journalist Surwan Omar was arrested on 17 March because he wrote an article about the abuse of authority.

Şırnak Bar Association chair Elçi says relatives of disappeared persons applied for support. Excavations for remains of alleged victims of extra-judicial killings in 1990s will continue in coming days. A former gendarme commander is under arrest.

Retired generals Tolon and Eruygur are accused of conspiring against the government in the 1909 page-long indictment. Journalist Dink's murder as well as a former general's diaries explaining coup plans and journalist Balbay's diaries are featured in the indictment.

Former Radikal journalist Perihan Mağden has been convicted of insulting Arif Şirin and singer İsmail Türüt in the media. She has said that she will appeal to the ECHR.

YARSAV President Eminağaoğlu has argued that the constitution speaks of “service to the country” and not military service, thus renewing discussions about conscientious objection. At the same time, the number of people demanding to pay instead of doing military service is steadily rising.

Günlük daily columnist Sarısözen and managing director Çiçekçi faces up to 7.5 years in prison for an article which discusses how and who makes "terrorist propaganda."

Latife Tekin questioned the improper acquisition of land at Mydos archeological site in Muğla, at a panel discussion and several men physically attacked her.

The Diyarbakır Chamber of Physicians has created a basic Kurdish guide for Turkish doctors sent on duty in the southeast of the country. The aim is to improve doctor-patient communication.

The prosecution investigating the death wells in Cizre has taken Temizöz, former JITEM commander in the area, into custody in Kayseri. According to former JİTEM member Aygan, Temizöz was involved in many extrajudicial killings.