Convicted mob boss Sedat Peker claims to reveal state officials' involvement in the unsolved assassinations of investigative journalists Uğur Mumcu and Kutlu Adalı in the 1990s.

Defending citizens' living space against a pro-government company’s attempts to open a stone quarry in Rize’s İkizdere, one person been taken into custody, reportedly on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.”

The Human Rights Association (İHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) have released a joint statement about the armed attack targeting the HDP İzmir office and claiming the life of HDP worker Deniz Poyraz.

The İzmir provincial organization building of the Peoples' Democratic Party has been attacked. HDP MP Murat Çepni has announced that party worker Deniz Poyraz has been killed in the attack, which is later confirmed by the İzmir Govenor's Office.

The family of cyclist Umut Gündüz, who lost his life after being hit by a vehicle driven by a drunk driver, stages a sit-in protest in front of the Justice Ministry every Wednesday. Yesterday’s protest was supported by the Chamber of Architects as well.

Put on trial “because she watched a lynching on the sidewalk” and released to house arrest last week, Ayten Öztürk has been taken into custody again upon the prosecutor’s objection to her release.

This year’s Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards have been granted to the constituencies of Boğaziçi University and to arrested and dismissed HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu.

The case of imprisoned businessperson and rights advocate Osman Kavala is an "emblematic of a pattern of judicial harassment against human rights defenders in Turkey," according to UN Special Rapporteur Lawlor.

According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, 17 rights defenders stood trial in 7 separate cases in 2020; seven rights defenders were sentenced to a total of 24 years, 3 months in prison.

The Revolutionary 78s Federation has released a statement about Veysel Güney, who was executed on June 10, 1981 following the military coup in 1980 and whose deceased body was buried in an unknown place by a soldier.

My maternal uncle Hafız Akdemir was massacred in Diyarbakır 29 years ago today. The only witness to the murder was me, the court did not even ask for my statement. Sentenced to life imprisonment, convict C.Y. is among us.

Amid allegations that Demirören Holding has not paid back 750 million dollars of loan it received from a public bank to buy Doğan Media, we have spoken with journalist İpek Yezdani, who was dismissed from daily Hürriyet over a year after the sale.

In the 845th week of their protest for the enforced disappeared, Saturday Mothers/ People asked who killed Kurdish businesspeople Savaş Buldan, Hacı Karay and Adnan Yıldırım: “We won’t give up demanding justice for our all losses.”

With all his "good intentions," Fahrettin Altun does not seek further compensation and will be satisfied if his attorney's fee is covered, according to his petition.

Another application has been made for the deferment of the execution of the prison sentence of 83-year-old Mehmet Emin Özkan, whose court records show that he has been in prison for 25 years for a crime he did not commit.

Unsolved murders, disappearances, tortures... The struggle of rights organizations in Turkey for more than a quarter of a century... Rights defenders Eren Keskin and Akın Birdal have spoken to bianet.

According to the report of Civil Society in the Penal System Association, the food offered to prisoners is cold and of poor quality, it is not hygienic or filling, meat is replaced by rice and pasta, the number and weight of bread in grams have been reduced.

The chairs of 58 bar associations have made a joint statement about the intervention against the villagers resisting the marble quarry attempted to be built in Van’s Gürpınar district: “Give up the project, apologize to villagers.”

In the wake of a ban imposed by the Beyoğlu Governor’s Office, the Taksim Solidarity platform has made a press statement on the 8th anniversary of Gezi under police blockade. “The darkness passes, Gezi remains,” they have stated.

The İzmir Branch of the Human Rights Association (İHD) held a press statement on the occasion of the International Week of the Enforced Disappeared.