An access block has been imposed on the website that has been opened to give up-to-date information about the ongoing Gezi trial.

The Freedom of Expression Association has released the English version of its report on blocked websites, news articles and social media content from Turkey. Accordingly, access to 54 thousand 903 websites was blocked in Turkey in 2018.

Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Çayan Demirel have been sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison each for the 2015 documentary "Bakur" (North) on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Announcing its ruling on convict Ümit Balaban, whose request for phoning her daughter at the weekend instead of weekdays was rejected, the Constitutional Court has concluded that his “right to respect for family life has been violated.”

A group of tourists who wanted to have their pictures taken with a scarf Kurdistan written on it were assaulted in Trabzon. The Governorship has announced that nine detained tourists will be deported from Turkey.

Karşıyaka Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the claims of torture against a refugee woman at the removal center in the western province of İzmir.

The Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days given to artist Zuhal Olcay on charge of “insulting the president.”

The text we signed is quite clear. It says, "We demand [the government] to ... create a road map that would lead to a lasting peace..." I have not come across a dictionary that explains the meaning of peace with terror. Peace is antonym of both war and terror.

The Prosecutor has demanded that CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Kaftancıoğlu be penalized on separate charges including "insulting the President”, “inciting the public to enmity and hatred” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.

Put on trial for being Editors-in-Chief of the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, Korur-Fincancı, Önderoğlu and Nesin have been acquitted. Amnesty Turkey has expressed concerns over the ones convicted for having solidarized with the newspaper.

Of the seven defendants whose files were separated from the main trial because of the possibility of statutory limitations, Tuncel has been sentenced to 99 years and 6 months and Samast, who shot Dink dead, to 2 years and 6 months in prison.

Vedat Aydın was killed in 1991 when he was the HEP Diyarbakır Provincial Chairperson. Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairperson Tahir Elçi was killed in 2015. We spoke with the İHD members in Diyarbakır, one of the hardest places to be a rights defender.

An attack has been launched against a restaurant in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. Different sources give different information as to the nature of the attack as well as the number of casualties.

Dersim Bar Association has released a written statement on the killing of two children because of unexploded ordnance in the countryside.

Put on trial for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, Şebnem Korur-Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin have been acquitted.

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of Human Rights Association (İHD). Among the founders of the İHD were relatives of prisoners, intellectuals, writers, journalists, publishers, academics, lawyers, physicians, architects, engineers and teachers

Two siblings aged four and eight were killed on Monday (July 15) after touching an explosive in the countryside of the southeastern city.

Eight-year-old Ayaz Güloğlu and his four-year-old sister Nulpeda died in an explosion in the countryside in Ovacık, Dersim.

The word "Kurdistan" was censored in the Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho's book, "Eleven Minutes". What is always most dangerous is that Kurds saying "Kurdistan." So, what happens when you say the word in Turkey?

An investigation has been launched against translator Metin Cihan, who has been raising concerns on social media over the suspicious death of 11-year-old Rabia Naz Vatan.