In the last week, two more people have been arrested in the Malatya murder case, first Varol Bülent Aral, accused of inciting prime suspect Emre Günaydin, and now former publishing employee Hüseying Yekli.

11 rangers were killed and their bodies burnt in 1996 and the General Staff blamed it on the PKK. Then Minister of State, Ekmen says "he knew the deep state was repsonsible but couldn't prove it". Activists urge an investigation at least after 13 years.

The prosecution has refused to open a trial over the slogans and placards carried at Hrant Dink’s funeral. A complaint had been filed against Istanbul’s Şişli municipality mayor Sarıgül.

It took over twelve years to get Mehmet Ağar, former chief of police and then politician, into court for his role in the Susurluk scandal that rocked Turkey in 1996. The trial continues on 13 May.

The trial against writer Temel Demirer has been stalled by an appeal for cancellation to an administrative court. Demirer spoke of a “murderous state” when referring to the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink.

Human Rights Association releases its annual report on rights violations in prisons. IHD received 3 519 applications regarding rights violations such as arbitrary ban on books and communication in Kurdish as well as disciplinary practices.

Doğan Özkan read a press briefing of the Human Rights Association in front of Selimiye Barracks in Üsküdar in 2004. Now he is facing court for discouraging people from doing military service.

DTP MP Aysel Tuğluk is facing a prison sentence for saying that denouncing the PKK as terrorists would not solve the Kurdish question. The court has sent her file to parliament in order to lift her immunity.

Tried with imprisonment on allegations related to news articles revealing an unlawful general authorization of electronic surveillance to security forces, Tahincioglu and Goktas's case continued today.

One may disagree with Hrant Dink's writings and sayings but he could have defended himself if he were alive. Now he's left dead, I had to act against those violating his rights. Journalist Sener talks to bianet about his latest book.

A group of intellectuals and academics has condemned a PKK-related group, HPG, for openly threatening sociologist İsmail Beşikçi on their website.

An Armenian academic in Australia has initiated an apology campaign in reply. However, the European Armenian Federation has condemned any campaign without genocide recognition as “populist”.

Answering the questions of Dutch MEP Erik Meijer, the European Commission said that EU accession negotiations would also include a discussion of the right to conscientious objection or social instead of military service.

A project scanning school books for human rights violations has revealed that only eight percent are unproblematic.

While all over the world begun a debate about the possibility to put Israel'i responsibles under trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity for Gaza military operation that caused 1300 deaths, Spanish National Assembly started an investigation about a fact happened in 2002.

The Fatih municipality in Istanbul has destroyed the children’s centre in the Roma neighbourhood of Sulukule.

Around 50 NGO representatives and journalists from Croatia, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo met in Brussels for a workshop on corruption. Önderoğlu from bianet participated.

Dink family lawyer Tuna evaluated the investigation of defence lawyer Turgut as positive but a step taken far too late. She is not optimistic about the trial.

On the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of two Kurdish politicians in Silopi, southeastern Turkey, thousands of people gathered in protest.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has rejected a call to open a case against the apology campaign under Article 301.