After a Rum (Greek) citizen was found dead in Gökçeada, Çanakkale, Yeniköy Aya Panagia Church Foundation Chair Laki Vingas has spoken to bianet and emphasized that wrong perceptions regarding minorities put human life at risk.

Human Rights Association (İHD) Commission Against Racism and Discrimination has filed a criminal complaint against theologian Hatipoğlu, who performed a religious conversion ritual for a 13-year-old child, and ATV, which broadcast the ritual live.

The family of the child, for whom Nihat Hatipoğlu organized a religious conversion ritual, told HDP Diyarbakır MP Garo Paylan that nobody asked them for a permission.

An online petition entitled “Let Haluk Savaş Live” has been launched for cancer patient Prof. Dr. Haluk Savaş, a discharged physician and academic who is not permitted to go abroad for treatment though his international travel ban has been lifted.

After 11 former members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Central Council have been sentenced to prison for their declaration entitled “War is a Public Health Problem”, the association has appealed to the Ministry of Justice.

Arrested Academic for Peace Assoc. Prof. Tuna Altınel has sent a message from prison to bianet: “We will keep on showing the same consistency with all my fellow colleagues, with whom I walk together, and our solidarity will always continue.”

A soldier has lost his life in an armed conflict between the security forces and the PKK in Turkey’s eastern province of Hakkari.

Making a series of demands, including the removal of the ban on their concerts, Grup Yorum music band has announced that they will go on a hunger strike as of May 17.

Columnist of the Yeniçağ Newspaper Yavuz Selim Demirağ has said that “I am not afraid,” in his column published on May 14, 2019 after he has been attacked in front of his house. His attackers have been released.

Gathering in Kadıköy to commemorate 301 miners who lost their lives in Soma five years ago, people opened the banner “Everything will be fine.” While the police permitted the demonstration, they said that the banner was banned by the governorship.

Detained while reporting on the protests staged to raise concerns over hunger strikes, journalists Zeynep Kuray and İrfan Tunççelik have been released on probation. HDP Bakırköy Co-Chair Ugiş, who was also among the detained, has been arrested.

In the lawsuit filed into Reyhanlı attack, which claimed the lives of 52 people on May 11, 2013, defendant Yusuf Nazik has been sentenced to life imprisonment aggravated for 53 times for “disrupting the unity and integrity of the state” and “killing 52 people.”