CHP MP Kaya shared the video of the incident, attaching the note, “The images were captured in a boy’s dormitory of the Süleymancılar religious community in Esenler”. The Governor’s Office has stated that the dorm worker has been detained.

On the occasion of March 18-24 Week of Older Persons, the Pensioners Solidarity Union and Human Rights Association held a joint press conference: “Aging must be accepted as a societal phenomenon and old age as a social phenomenon”.

Imprisoned for 28 years, İlhan Sami Çomak has been awarded the poetry prize for his book “Hayattayız Nihayet” (We are finally alive).

A 20-year-old prisoner in Van lost his life. His cause of death was recorded as "heart attack."

While he was underway in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır, journalist Altan Sancar was intercepted by a vehicle without a license plate. One person showed him the gun at his waist and said, “You have stretched your leg way too much; behave”.

Speaking ahead of the hearing today, on March 23, the son of Musa Anter, Dicle Anter said, “They say that it has its founder and personnel, but there is no Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (JİTEM) Organization”.

“The practice that violates children’s fundamental rights and freedoms must be swiftly abandoned and the children deprived of their freedom must be released,” says the Child Rights Center of the Diyarbakır Bar.

Police intervened against the protest demonstration of Furkan Foundation in Adana province. While the foundation has asked for Interior Minister Soylu’s resignation over the police violence, the videos of the incident have sparked criticisms on social media.

Taken into custody in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province, journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut have been taken to the Diyarbakır Security Directorate.

“Osman Kavala will never get back the four-and-a-half years he has already spent behind bars for no other reason than his civil society activism,” says Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Europe Director.

RSF Representative to Turkey Erol Önderoğlu says that “Güngör Arslan’s murder comes as no surprise to anyone because he constantly received threatening messages without eliciting any reaction from the authorities”.

"It will be meaningful and important that Turkey, where most Kurds live in the Middle East, recognizes the crimes committed within the scope of Operation Anfal as genocide," the association has said.

The prosecutor of the Bakırköy 47th Criminal Court of First Instance has said that the crime of “aggravated injury” was committed and requested that the ones who physically assaulted journalist Levent Gültekin be penalized.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Hakkari Branch has released a written statement and reminded the public and authorities of the violations of rights committed during the 79-day curfew declared in Kurdish-majority Yüksekova on March 13, 2016.

Shot in his head with a tear gas canister fired by a police officer in İstanbul during Gezi, Berkin Elvan lost his life on March 11, 2014, 269 days after being shot. He is commemorated on the eighth anniversary of his death.

The Hatay 1st Criminal Judgeship of Peace has imposed an access block on the websites of Pir News Agency and Yeni Yaşam newspaper.

A school bus rolled over in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, claiming the life of one child and wounding six children and the driver.

Writing to bianet from the Elbistan Type E Closed Prison, cartoonist Ahmet Bilge says that while he and three fellow prisoners would pay 80 lira on average for the electricity bill, it almost tripled last month and they were expected to pay 220 lira.

Examining the tender for a railway line to be built between Halkalı and Ispartakule as part of the Canal İstanbul project, the Council of State has found the negotiated tendering process to be contrary to law.

The Directorate General of Security has announced that it has taken action against 45 social media accounts which allegedly posted provocative messages and disinformation about “cooking oil prices” in Turkey.