16-year-old Yasin had to migrate from İstanbul to Antep with his mother. Laid off during the pandemic, his father is still unemployed. As Yasin and his brother do not have Internet or a computer, they cannot attend their online classes.

Hatice Cengiz accuses bin Salman and Saudi officials of having "manufactured an opportunity to murder him."

The Governor’s Office of Van has banned protest demonstrations and open-air meetings for 15 days as of today till November 4.

More than 100 media employees have stood trial for "insulting the president" since Erdoğan's election in 2014, according to the RSF.

Seeing the signs of trauma on the body of Serkan Tumay, his family has appealed to the Kırıkkale Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and filed a criminal complaint about the suspicious death of the prisoner.

Bahtiyar Fırat from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province went to İstanbul Airport to leave for Iran. He was first interrogated by police following the passport control, then released. Now, his family does not know where he is.

Prof. Baskın Oran "should be open to criticism," the court has stated.

Yesterday marked the 3rd year since businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala was taken into custody. In a video shared on “Free Osman Kavala” website, people are seen to be shuffling through book pages, unable to find a sentence.

A person with autism was left in the garden of a rehabilitation center with his hands tied up behind his back; the scene was captured by the parents of other children. An investigation has been launched against the responsible person.

Amid ongoing conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, HDP MP Garo Paylan, who has recently been targeted by hate speech for making a call for peace, has penned an article for the New York Times.

On the grounds that the prosecution will be repeated in case of another lawsuit, the prosecutor's office has concluded that there is a lack of grounds for legal action against Sevda Noyan, who said, “Our family would take down 50 people, my list is ready.”

The Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders has made a call for the release of arrested businessperson and rights defender Kavala, who has been behind bars for 1,080 days: “There is no evidence that will justify the investigation against him.”

“Even though armed conflicts ended, they have left behind a series of issues that need to be tackled such as severe trauma, poverty, dropping out of school, unemployment and impunity,” says Yalçın from the Colorful Hopes Association in Diyarbakır.

The local court previously ruled that Emin Çölaşan and Necati Doğru should be sentenced to 3 years, 6 months, 15 days; Mustafa Çetin and Metin Yılmaz to 3 years, 4 months; Yücel Arı, Gökmen Ulu and Yonca Yücekaleli to 2 years, 1 month in prison.

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s City Theaters were going to host a Kurdish theater play, in a first in 106 years of history. Hours before the play, the Sub-Governor’s Office has banned the play. The theater group will take legal action.

Addressing a Parliamentary question to Minister of Culture and Tourism Ersoy, HDP MP Züleyha Gülüm has raised concerns about the hate speech in Turkey’s media: “When hate speech ends in impunity, it leads to further hate speech.”

The 3rd Quarterly BİA Media Monitoring Report shows that Turkey has become a country where journalists are detained for criticizing an Ottoman Sultan, TV channels are silenced for the same reason and violence against journalists ends in impunity.

Arrested in Silivri Prison since August, discharged academic Nuriye Gülmen has sent a letter to bianet: “On the second day of my imprisonment, I caught myself dreaming of a vacuum cleaner to remove the spider’s webs on the wall.”

Recently prosecuted over a news report regarding the funeral of an intelligence officer killed in Libya, Odatv journalists Pehlivan and Terkoğlu have announced that the order in effect since 2017 to protect them from extremist groups has been lifted.

Taken into custody in Turkey’s eastern province of Van on October 6, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Cemil Uğur and Adnan Bilen, Jinnews reporter Şehriban Abi and journalist Nazan Sala have been arrested.