Edibe Özçelik fell ill during a police raid in her house. Later it was revealed she was having a heart attack. Her son said that the police did not let them bring her to the hospital for a long period of time.

Currently held in Diyarbakır Prison, 85-year-old ill inmate Özkan cannot meet his personal needs on his own. Speaking to bianet, his attorney calls on Erdoğan to remove his prison sentence so that Özkan can spend the last days of his life at his home.

Remzi Diril, the priest of the İstanbul Chaldean Church, has said that the search for his parents is continuing.

A lawsuit has been filed against a doctor who is accused of telling a patient, “Alevis have belly dancers dance in djemevis. They drink wine, these are houses of revelry. What kind of religion is that? They are all terrorists. Berkin Elvan is also a terrorist.”

Social Memory Platform has released a written statement about the pardon granted to the convict of Sivas Massacre by President Erdoğan. “No matter who forgives murderers, we will not forgive them”, the Platform has said.

Khidher Domle from the Women and Children Support Office speaks about the problems facing the Êzidî community, the plight of children born of sexual assault, mothers’ rights and the women’s solidarity movement.

Thirty students of Boğaziçi University stood trial for having opened a banner that read, "Invasion, massacre cannot be marked with delight" in protest of a group of students giving out Turkish delight at the campus with respect to Turkey's military operation in Syria's Afrin.

Arrested on November 15, 2019, journalist Melike Aydın has been released. A reporter for the JinNews website, Aydın was arrested with journalist Ruken Demir.

Leyla, 28, is staying at a women’s refuge in Sulaymaniyah. When she left her son in an orphanage, she did not know that he would be registered as a Muslim and given up for adoption within a week.

More than 50 countries have made recommendations and criticism about the pressure on journalists and rights defenders in Turkey.

The annual report issued by the Initiative for Freedom of Expression covers the violations of rights committed in Turkey throughout 2019.

In explaining why Saturday Mothers/People are not allowed to gather at Galatasaray Square to demand justice for the disappeared, Deputy Minister Kaymakçı said, “Because they disturb tourists...” Saturday Mothers/People have responded to his remarks.

HDP MP Züleyha Gülüm has submitted a Parliamentary question about the death of Hüseyin Polat, who had gastrointestinal bleeding in Tekirdağ Type F Prison and sent back to prison because “there was no room” at the hospital.

Unable to accept her family's condition of giving up her children, Rayan, a young Êzidî woman, is still in the El Hol camp with her two children born in ISIL captivity. Her sister Fahima and cousin Seher are the only ones in her family sympathizing with her.

"Turkey's disregard of human rights is a disservice to its citizens, who deserve to live with dignity and freedom," HRW's Williamson said ahead of the Universal Public Review

Former HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has spoken to bianet about his first novel “Leylan”: “The hopelessness and unhappiness of the ones outside as well as the impression that they are driven into a meaningless life made me want to write about it.”

Zozan, now 19, was just 14 when she taken captive by ISIL. She will deliver her second child three months from now: “Yes, I will remember all that happened to me every time I look into my child’s face, but abandoning her will not make me forget either."

Charged with “membership of a terrorist organization”, Academic for Peace Assoc. Prof. Tuna Altınel has been acquitted in his final hearing today.

It has been 27 years since investigative journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was murdered. Journalists, politicians, his family and audience have commemorated the late journalist with carnations.

Waiting for their press cards, journalists Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Eylem Nazlıer, Hüseyin Şimşek, Meltem Akyol, Nadire Mater and Sedat Yılmaz have asked the fate and whereabouts of their press cards to the Presidency Directorate of Communications.