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Journalist Sultan Eylem Keleş sentenced to prison over coverage of workers' protest
Keleş has been found guilty of "resisting a public official to prevent them from performing their duty."
17 July 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
reports
Prosecutors drop indecency charges against model-activist over 'normal birth' protest
“Despite all the pressure, I will continue to fight for women’s rights and to protest under any circumstances," says Melisa Aydınalp.
17 July 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Ayşegül Başar
reports
'All mothers’ tears are the same color': Peace Mothers reflect on PKK weapon-burning ceremony
“The state still considers them terrorists. They are Kurdish children. The state must act immediately and extend its hand for peace. Let no Kurdish or Turkish mothers cry," says one of the mothers.
16 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Turkey prepares to open olive groves for mining to ‘feed power plants’
The bill facilitating mining activities in olive groves and other rural lands also grants a permit for existing mining sites in Muğla.
16 July 2025
Matt A. Hanson
İmamoğlu sentenced to 1 year, 7 months in prison over remarks targeting chief prosecutor
One of several legal cases against the suspended mayor of İstanbul concluded today. İmamoğlu delivered a politically charged defense, concluding, “I’ve beaten them four times at the ballot box, and I’m a threat because I’ll beat them a fifth time.”
16 July 2025
Kurdish, Armenian mass grave site in Siirt opened to development
“There are songs, poems, and books written about Kasaplar Deresi. It is a place that has left deep marks in the collective memory of the people," says the local head of TMMOB in the city.
15 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
reports
PKK’s ‘farewell to arms’: What is ending, and what is beginning?
Perhaps we witnessed the most concrete and tangible steps ever taken toward peace; top-down and bottom-up. Despite its weight, making peace, is possible, as we "witnessed."
14 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Factory owner claims to be a victim in trial over deadly fireworks blast
The owner was initially sentenced to prison on charges related to negligence, but the top appeals court ruled that the charges should reflect "probable intent."
14 July 2025
Hikmet Adal
reports
Turkey enacts law allowing 10 consecutive workdays for tourism workers
The required number of consecutive workdays before a weekly rest in the tourism sector has increased from six to ten. Union leader Gökhan Aslan says the law will lead to "unlimited exploitation."
14 July 2025
Hikmet Adal
Erdoğan signs decree to further increase non-benefit spending from unemployment fund
Labor unions and opposition parties have long criticized the use of te unemployment fund, arguing that the fund’s primary purpose is being compromised by the diversion of resources to employer-oriented subsidies.
14 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
reports
'We witnessed a historical moment'
Three of the limited number of attendees spoke to bianet, sharing their reflections on the PKK’s disarmament ceremony.
11 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Barzani welcomes PKK disarmament
The KRG president extended his thanks to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as well as his nationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli and PKK ledaer Öcalan.
11 July 2025
In photos: PKK's historic disarmament ceremony
A group of 30 PKK members, including senior executives, attended a symbolic ceremony.
11 July 2025
Bahçeli hails PKK disarming: 'a new and hopeful era'
Bahçeli also commended the DEM Party for maintaining what he described as a responsible political stance.
11 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
reports
Initial takeaways from PKK's disarmament ceremony
The PKK stated that it would continue its struggle through legal means under the name “Group for Peace and Democratic Society” and called on the state to introduce legal regulations in line with the peace process.
11 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Video: PKK burns weapons in ceremony marking end of armed struggle
The group, which declared its dissolution after a May congress as part of a peace process, has taken the first step with a symbolic ceremony.
11 July 2025
Full text: PKK statement during disarmament ceremony
We are publishing the full text of the statement delivered by the Group for Peace and Democratic Society during the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) symbolic disarmament ceremony on Jul 11.
11 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
reports
PKK holds disarmament ceremony to end four-decade armed struggle
The PKK took the first step for disarmament as part of a peace process with Turkey.
11 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Turkey says gas exposure that killed 12 soldiers in Iraq's north was first of its kind
Nineteen soldiers were hospitalized after being exposed to methane gas during a cave search in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
10 July 2025
Elif Usta
reports
Plans to reopen Ani Cathedral as mosque draw criticism
Experts say the claim that Ani was the site of the first Friday prayer in Anatolia, the basis for plans to convert it into a mosque, is not supported by conclusive historical evidence.
10 July 2025
Elif Şevval Usta
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Rüçhan Çamay, ‘first Turkish singer to sing on TV,’ dies at 94
Her daughter announced the veteran artist's death, saying "life will be very difficult without her."
10 July 2025
Turkey tells Council of Europe it will not extend ‘right to hope’ to Öcalan
The country’s ruling bloc initiated the ongoing new Kurdish peace process by offering Abdullah Öcalan the right to hope in exchange for the PKK’s disbandment.
10 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
reports
DEM Party-led group departs Diyarbakır for PKK disarmament ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan
A large group including politicians, intellectuals, and journalists will be in Sulaymaniyah as the PKK holds a symbolic disarmament ceremony tomorrow in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
10 July 2025
Ayşegül Başar
Fifteen CHP mayors suspended from office in corruption probes
The wave of investigations against the main opposition party, ongoing since March, has expanded to several cities.
10 July 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Interview
'PKK disarmament is not an end, but the first step toward an honorable peace'
We spoke with DEM Party Co-Chair Bakırhan about the debates on resolving the Kurdish question, the operations targeting the CHP, and the role of socialists and other segments of society in the process.
9 July 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Spike in shark sightings in Marmara Sea linked to plunging deep-sea oxygen levels
Due to the depleting oxygen levels caused by pollution, sharks and deep-sea species are moving closer to the surface according to experts.
9 July 2025
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PKK leader Öcalan releases first video message in 26 years ahead of disarmament ceremony
"Politics know no vacuum; therefore, the vacuum should be filled with the program of 'Democratic Society'," said Öcalan.
9 July 2025
Turkish court orders ban on Grok over profane responses
The ban is linked to the AI tool's offensive responses targeting Atatürk, Erdoğan and the Prophet Muhammad.
9 July 2025
Turkish prosecutors investigate X's Grok AI after offensive content targeting Erdoğan, Atatürk
After a recent update, Grok began responding users with explicit messages, some of which included highly vulgar language.
9 July 2025
European court finds 2019 ruling for Demirtaş’s 2019 detention arbitrary
The ruling stated that Turkey’s Constitutional Court had failed to provide effective oversight, contributing to the violation of Demirtaş’s rights.
8 July 2025
Adıyaman mayor placed under house arrest in corruption probe targeting CHP municipalities
If the Interior Ministry suspends Tutdere from office, he will become the 14th CHP mayor to be removed from office.
8 July 2025
Heatwave to persist across much of Turkey for another week
An expert has warned the public to stay indoors between 12-4pm.
8 July 2025
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