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.