A five-year-old girl child has been hospitalized after being subjected to sexual abuse in the district of Küçükçekmece in İstanbul. The neighborhood residents have gathered in front of the police station to protest the incident.

Levon Ekmekjian was executed after the 1980 coup. His family has been searching for his grave since then, only to be given the bones of a woman and some animals.

Releasing a statement on the occasion of April 23 Children’s Day, the Human Rights Association (İHD) has stated that children are asked to celebrate as if it was a real festive day and, as the İHD, they will not be in this unrealistic picture.

The former office of Agos newspaper at Sebat Apartment in İstanbul will open as 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory. Rakel Dink, the wife of late journalist, has summarized the site of memory as follows: “So that Turkey will not forget from now on…”

Several rights groups gathered in the capital Ankara to make a press statement on the hunger strikes in prisons have been dispersed by the police.

Announcing the response that he received from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, CHP MP MP Ali Şeker has stated, “So long as a pseudo-struggle is waged against child labor, our children will continue falling victim to occupational homicides.”

Six people have been detained in relation with the lynch attempt against CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu. While the detained are still deposing at the Gendarmerie Commandership, AKP Spokesperson Çelik has stated that the man who punched him is an AKP member.

Releasing a report on human rights violations committed in 2018, Human Rights Association (İHD) has announced that 20 people lost their lives in 11 months due to the extrajudicial executions of law enforcement officers or for disobeying their stop warnings.

Whenever a war or a conflict starts, the virtues of peace are forgotten and the voice of nonviolent people calling for peace is muted by the voice of weapons. Hence, the times when real love of peace is tested are not the times of peace, but times of war.

Turkey has again ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Commenting on Turkey, the organization has underlined, “Turkey is the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists.”

Releasing a declaration on hunger strikes, 150 professional and rights organizations and associations have underlined that they defend life and added: “It is not at all difficult for the government to resolve hunger strikes which started with a legal demand.”

The Yazidis celebrate the Çarşema Sor, a religious holiday that marks the beginning of the spring.

Güler Okman Fişek, whose 15-month deferred prison sentence was reversed by the upper court as her statement regarding the suspension of the announcement of the verdict was not taken, has been sentenced to 1 year, 10 months, 15 days in prison.

Sending a letter from Silivri Prison, Bernard van Leer Foundation’s Representative to Turkey Yiğit Aksakoğlu has responded to the charges brought against him in the Gezi Indictment, which was accepted by court on March 4, 2019.

Releasing a statement regarding 20-year-old Hantaş who was shot to death by police in Diyarbakır, the Diyarbakır Bar Association has demanded that “the investigation into the death of Hantaş be conducted in a fair, impartial and independent manner.”

University student Berkay Ustabaş who spent one year behind bars because of attending the funeral of Berkin Elvan has been sentenced to five months in prison, and this sentence has also been adjourned.

Being charged with causing the death of 20-year-old Recep Hantaş in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, one police officer has been arrested by the court on duty where he was referred. The other officer has been released on probation.

Erol Önderoğlu has made his defense in the tenth hearing of the case filed against Önderoğlu, Nesin and Korur-Fincancı for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper.

According to the allegations, sitting in Sümerpark in Diyarbakır, 20-year-old Recep Hantaş has lost his life in a fire opened by police. The Governorship has released a statement and announced that two officers have been referred to court for arrest.

A lawsuit has been filed against musician Ferhat Tunç for insulting then PM Binali Yıldırım in 2016. Tunç is now on trial in five different cases.