"Turkey's disregard of human rights is a disservice to its citizens, who deserve to live with dignity and freedom," HRW's Williamson said ahead of the Universal Public Review

Subjected to transphobic attacks of her neighbors in İstanbul, trans woman Ajda says that though she has been filing criminal complaints against N.D. for threatening her with throwing nitric acid on her face, he has not been summoned to depose.

Having revoked the yellow press cards of daily Evrensel and BirGün workers last week, the Presidency Directorate of Communications has revalidated their press cards. Journalists are awaiting their new turquoise press cards now.

Former HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has spoken to bianet about his first novel “Leylan”: “The hopelessness and unhappiness of the ones outside as well as the impression that they are driven into a meaningless life made me want to write about it.”

Forty-five people have been rescued from the debris after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that left 76 of buildings demolished and 645 buildings seriously damaged.

As of 4 p.m. today, 22 people have lost their lives and 1,243 people have been wounded in the earthquake that hit the district of Sivrice in Turkey’s eastern province of Elazığ on January 24. 42 people have been rescued from the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Nacho Sanchez Amor has called on Turkey to "come back to normality" in his first visit to Turkey.

Charged with “membership of a terrorist organization”, Academic for Peace Assoc. Prof. Tuna Altınel has been acquitted in his final hearing today.

It has been 27 years since investigative journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu was murdered. Journalists, politicians, his family and audience have commemorated the late journalist with carnations.

Turkey has begun screening travelers from China at airports in the wake of the "Wuhan virus" outbreak, the Minister of Health has stated.

The court board consisting of three judges gave a verdict of release with the signature of a single judge. A note attached to the verdict said that the defendant would be arrested again, his release was “only on paper” and he shouldn’t be released.

Press cards of two Diyarbakır-based journalists, Mahmut Oral and Faruk Balıkçı, have been revoked by the Directorate of Communications.

Addressing the audience in the inauguration ceremony of Turkish-German University, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has quoted from Albert Einstein: “Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.”

In the lawsuit filed against the lawyers of Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), the court of appeal has rejected the objection without examining the file. While the verdict is dated October 8, 2019, the judge apparently expressed opinion one day later.

Images of veiled and unveiled women in the booklet sparked criticism.

Waiting for their press cards, journalists Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Eylem Nazlıer, Hüseyin Şimşek, Meltem Akyol, Nadire Mater and Sedat Yılmaz have asked the fate and whereabouts of their press cards to the Presidency Directorate of Communications.

“While even a joint press statement is discussed for days and turns into a crisis over a single word, it cannot be possible to discuss unity in the left”, says imprisoned former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş

"It is true that an investigation has been launched upon [article] 301 but I don't know the content of the investigation yet," Kubilay has said.

While they were waiting for their press cards to be renewed, workers of daily Evrensel have learned that their cards have been revoked. The Commission on Press Cards has recently been affiliated with the Presidency Directorate of Communications.

MP Hişyar Özsoy has submitted a parliamentary question, asking how many of the incidents were investigated.