Diyarbakır Promotion, Culture and Solidarity Foundation (DİTAV) Chair Erhan Akalınlar invites everyone to the Zerzevan Castle, which is on the UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.

In the trial over the Sivas massacre, which claimed the lives of 35 people in Madımak Hotel in 1993, the court has rejected the requests for hearing the then state officials Köksal, Ağar and Karabilgin “because it will not have an effect on the ruling.”

In the face of recent price increases and 18-percent taxation on menstrual products, the Children and Women First Association has called on the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Trade to ensure that sanitary pads are provided free of charge.

The Ministry of Health has announced that over 412 thousand tests were conducted, 72,615 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 176 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.

We publish the full text of the speech made by Nazım Özgün Afşin, who was five when Hrant Dink was murdered, on his 15th death anniversary.

We publish the full text of Rakel Dink’s speech on the 15th anniversary of Hrant Dink’s murder: “Let us unlock this history to set free the anguished souls. Truth is the solid rock where we will build upon our house. Truth is a solid, steady rock.”

Çetin Dedeoğulları and Erdal Rifatoğulları, two members of the Kurdish family massacred in Konya, and Ebru Akkal, a lawyer for the family, met HDP Group Deputy Chairs Danış-Beştaş and Oluç today, on January 19.

"It's been 15 years since the treacherous bullets fired from the back took you away from us. Your voice is still in our ears. They had accused you of back-stabbing whenever you talked about what had been done to your people," said the late journalist's spouse, Rakel Dink.

“Even the number of private dormitories manifests how the government forces our students to stay in the dorms of some associations and foundations,” says opposition İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener.

Traffic has stopped in 115 locations on the country's highways while roads to more than 700 villages have been closed due to snowfall and blizzards, according to the authorities.

A civil court of first instance gave a decision of non-jurisdiction in the trial over the attack on Yavuz Selim Demirağ, saying that it was an “attempted killing”. A high criminal court has concluded that it was an “actual bodily harm”.

Nergis Doğru claims a police officer told her, "You are very important to me, Nergis. How long will you fight? Until you are arrested? Or until you are dead? It's not worth it for this people. Give up on this."

Minister of National Education Özer has announced that 50 percent of the 15 thousand teachers to be appointed on January 31 will be employed in İstanbul. The number of teachers awaiting an appointment to work in the public sector is 500,041.

31 citizens have signed a joint statement in solidarity with HDP Kocaeli MP Dr. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who is facing an investigation due to his social media messages about Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk.

It has been 15 years since the killing of Hrant Dink in İstanbul. Those who organized the assassination have not been brought to justice, says the HDP.

The COVID-19 vaccines examined and approved by the European Medicines Agency can have worldwide validity. While the domestically produced vaccines of Russia, China and France are still waiting for approval, Turkovac is reportedly not even in line.

While the number of people seeking refuge in other countries due to internal disturbance, war and economic reasons in their countries is constantly increasing, refugees who have settled in Diyarbakır’s poor districts face discrimination and othering.

Amid recent incidents of violence against healthcare workers in Turkey, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has written letters to the Ministry of Justice and the Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK).

The Adıyaman Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has sent HDP MP Semra Güzel’s pictures with a PKK member to the file of the HDP closure case.

Upon the call of the HDP, a series of socialist political parties and groups met in the capital city of Ankara. Sharing a message following their first meeting, they have decided to “incorporate all democratic, left, socialist and revolutionary forces of Turkey.”