Dr. Nadire Güntaş-Aldatmaz says, “Children; you are more beautiful when you speak the language of your mother, father, maternal and paternal grandmother.”

Prepared as part of the Roma Dialogue Network’s Reinforcement Project, a recent report sheds light on the problems encountered by Romani people in Turkey during the pandemic: Aggravated discrimination, increasing poverty, more blatant violence.

The Human rights Association has called on Turkey to abide by its responsibilities according to international conventions that it is a party to.

“Homshetsi is a special language, Homshetsi is a beautiful language. I would like to sing you a song,” says Lusin Sultan, speaking to bianet on the occasion of February 21 International Mother Language Day.

Released in September 2021 in the trial where he was facing “blackmail" charges, Kocaeli Ses newspaper’s owner Güngör Arslan has lost his life in an armed attack. A day before, he wrote about a tender at the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality.

TTB Chair Prof. Korur Fincancı met the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission Chair and Director General of Prisons and Detention Houses about rights violations in prisons, ill prisoners and forensic medical reports given for ill prisoners.

Referred to the Şırnak Courthouse today, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut has been released on probation after giving her statement to the prosecutor’s office. Durgut had been in detention since February 14.

Giving his statement at the security directorate after two days in detention yesterday, on February 16, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut is expected to be referred to the Şırnak Prosecutor’s Office today.

The Mersin Youth Organization of the main opposition CHP raided the Haberci newspaper, which reported on the allegations of corruption and irregularities in a tender lodged by the Mersin Metropolitan Municipality for an integrated waste facility.

Kabaş has been under arrest since January 22 for "insulting the president" and "insulting public officials."

The Human Rights Association (İHD) has called on the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior to act in compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and demanded the release of arrested lawyer and rights advocate Tarık Güneş.

The academics of Boğaziçi University took legal action against the appointment of Malkoç as the Secretary General on July 13, 2021 and the İstanbul 12th Administrative Court gave a decision of stay of execution.

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut has been detained in a house raid in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Şırnak province and taken to the Şırnak Security Directorate. The reason for her detention is yet unknown.

A casino boss at the center of drug smuggling and blackmailing allegations, Halil Falyalı was shot dead on Tuesday in Northern Cyprus.

The ruling AKP, its ally MHP and BBP have requested that Halk TV presenter Ayşenur Arslan be penalized on charge of “degrading the nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey and the institutions and bodies of the state”.

Ayşenur Arslan, a program presenter at Halk TV, has been targeted on social media over her remarks about the killing of ‘betting and casino tycoon’ Halil Falyalı in Cyprus. RTÜK has launched an inquiry against the broadcaster.

According to the latest monthly report of the Civil Society in the Penal System Association, prisoners complain that electricity prices are increasing day by day and they cannot pay the fees as it puts their families into trouble economically.

The Umut (Hope) Foundation has shared the 2021 Turkey Violence Map with the public: Firearms were used in 3,172 incidents and sharp objects were used in 629. 3,896 people were wounded across Turkey in these incidents.

Engineer Güner Merdan from the Chamber of Electrical Engineers says, “These electric poles were set up 15-20 years ago. If you do not carry out maintenance or fix the decayed parts at regular intervals, this will be the result.”

The Civil Society in the Penal System Association has released its annual report on Turkey’s prisons: One of the major problems facing prisoners in 2020 was the violation of their right to access healthcare.