“In a period when peace discussions are back on the agenda in the country, I am being accused of ‘aiding’ and ‘being a member’ of an organization that dissolved itself and laid down arms. Isn't this a clear irony?” bianet editor Tuğçe Yılmaz said in her defense.

The court has concluded that Avcı acted out of necessity to defend her life and dropped the charge of "intentional killing."

"As an artist who has sung the songs of oppressed peoples for years, I have faced an unacceptable result. We do not accept it, and we will appeal," Aydınlar said after her trial.

Some 23,000 workers were paid only their bare wage for November and say their social rights payments haven't been made for four months.

The project are for the mine overlaps with parts of the Hûsika village, its water reservoir and cemetery.

Twenty-two couriers demand the removal of the Sunday work obligation and improvements in wages and working conditions.

AA journalists reportedly attempted to show their press cards to officers but were "harshly removed" from the scene.

Eleven defendants, including the owner of the hotel, were sentenced to life in prison over the fire that claimed 78 lives. The court found that the defendants knowingly disregarded critical fire safety shortcomings.

While Ankara said the president has no plans to meet Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish leader previously expressed a desire to contribute to the peace process in Turkey.

Suspects opened fire on the police during a raid on their apartment.

Nearly one in every ten individuals in the 15–17 age group in Turkey is enrolled in a Vocational Education Center, where they work for four days a week and attend school one day.

"The relationship between democratic socialism and the state is also being reshaped within the context of the peace and resolution process. I define my relationship with the state as a relationship of democratization," said Öcalan.