According to initial reports, at least 12 people have lost their lives in a bomb attack in northern Syrian district of Çobanbey in Turkey-Syria border.

Though the judges and prosecutors who found more than 200 academics guilty and penalized them and jurists in the Constitutional Court acted according to the same constitution and penal codes, why were their verdicts spread over such a large spectrum?

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced labor force figures for June.

Addressing the ministers who visited the families staging a sit-in protest in front of HDP Diyarbakır building for their missing children, CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu said, “Why do you go and sit there? Your duty is to resolve the problem.”

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that the final parts of second battery of the missile defense system arrived at Murted Airbase in the capital Ankara.

2019 International Hrant Dink Award has been granted to Nebahat Akkoç, who works to raise awareness about women’s rights and struggle against male violence, and Agnes Kharshiing, who struggles for the rights of disadvantaged groups and environment.

After a child was hit and killed by an armored vehicle in Diyarbakır, HDP MP Beştaş brought the matter into parliamentary agenda.

Attorneys of Cumhuriyet case have indicated that Emre İper, the former financial affairs officer of the newspaper, will be released from prison in December.

Members of European Parliament from various parties and political groups have addressed an open letter to President Erdoğan: “We urge you to end repression against members of the HDP and CHP and accept the results of local elections”.

A Pentagon spokesperson refuted the New York Times report that said the US will send 150 troops for joint patrols with the Turkish Armed Forces.

The report by the Hrant Dink Foundation found 6,517 hate speech items against 98 groups in 2018.

Making a statement for the press about the request for his discharge from the ruling AKP, former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated, “The AK Party no longer has the opportunity to be a remedy for the problems of our country.”

Releasing a statement about the attack in Diyarbakır, HDP Co-Chairs have stated, “We demand that the authorities find the responsible. The detention of our district chair is the first indication that they are after a perception operation, not a serious investigation.”

HDP Kulp District Chair and Civil Works Director of Kulp Municipality have been taken into custody as part of the investigation launched into the explosion that claimed the lives of seven people and wounded 10 others in Kulp, Diyarbakır.

In the last three years, at least 19 people, including children, have been killed after being hit by armored vehicles in Kurdish-majority provinces in the east and southeast.

Seven people have lost their lives and at least 10 people have been wounded in an explosion in the district of Kulp in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

Commenting on the verdict of right violation given by the Constitutional Court for the police violence on May Day in 2009, attorney Eyüboğlu has criticized that the ruling has failed to address the use of chemical gas during the intervention.

The court has ruled that execution of the sentences of seven former Cumhuriyet columnists shall be suspended and they shall be released.

While the prosecutor requested academic Akyüz be sentenced to prison, the court has acquitted her. A total of 106 academics have been acquitted so far.

Arrested in Silivri Prison for the past 14 months, lawyer Can Tombul from the Law Bureau of the Oppressed (EHB) has been released with an international travel ban.