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.”

After Göknur Damat, whom President Erdoğan calls “my foster daughter”, announced that she donated 20 Turkish Liras to Ekrem İmamoğlu’s election campaign, she was stabbed by a man on the street. İmamoğlu has paid a visit to Damat today.

In the “Truth and Justice” conference, “the struggle of enforced disappearances from Plaza de Mayo to Galatasaray” has been discussed. Isabel Noia from Argentina has said, “I believe that you will also find justice by struggling.”

Academic for Peace Assoc. Prof. Tuna Altınel from Lyon-1 University has been arrested in Balıkesir, where he went to get information about the restriction on his passport.

Çelik was imprisoned for "terrorist propaganda" for having said, "Don't let children die," in a TV program. The Constitutional Court has ruled that her right to freedom of expression is violated.

The 17th Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards have been granted to Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı, Ayşe Düzkan and Osman Kavala, “who have suffered oppression due to their freedom of expression activities.”

After 15 hunger striking inmates went on a death fast on April 30 with the demand that the isolation on imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan be ended, 15 other people have turned their hunger strike into a death fast in prison today.

Sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison for having signed the peace declaration, Academic for Peace Prof. Dr. Füsun Üstel has submitted herself to Eskişehir Women’s Closed Prison after her prison sentence has been upheld by the court of appeal.

Journalist Cansu Pişkin, the former reporter of daily Evrensel, has been sentenced to 10 month in prison for her news article entitled “Special Prosecutor for Boğaziçi University Students.” The announcement of the verdict has been deferred.

HDP MP Leyla Güven, who is on the 181st day of her hunger strike, and three other hunger striking HDP MPs have said that they expect the government "to declare that the isolation on Öcalan is lifted" to end their strikes.

Having her final hearing at the İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court, Nüket Esen from Boğaziçi University has been sentenced to 1 year, 3 months in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The announcement of the verdict has been deferred.

Academics have gathered for Prof. Füsun Üstel whose 15-month prison term for signing the Peace Declaration was approved by the court of appeals.