Of the seven defendants whose files were separated from the main trial because of the possibility of statutory limitations, Tuncel has been sentenced to 99 years and 6 months and Samast, who shot Dink dead, to 2 years and 6 months in prison.

Vedat Aydın was killed in 1991 when he was the HEP Diyarbakır Provincial Chairperson. Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairperson Tahir Elçi was killed in 2015. We spoke with the İHD members in Diyarbakır, one of the hardest places to be a rights defender.

An attack has been launched against a restaurant in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. Different sources give different information as to the nature of the attack as well as the number of casualties.

Charged with “alienating people from military service” for posting the messages “Don’t go into the army, but go to disco” and “All deserters are my heroes”, conscientious objector Ali Fikri Işık has been acquitted.

Dersim Bar Association has released a written statement on the killing of two children because of unexploded ordnance in the countryside.

Put on trial for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, Şebnem Korur-Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin have been acquitted.

The convention on violence against women has come under spotlight five years after coming into effect as pro-AKP circles launched a campaign against it after Erdoğan reportedly said that it can be "annulled."

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of Human Rights Association (İHD). Among the founders of the İHD were relatives of prisoners, intellectuals, writers, journalists, publishers, academics, lawyers, physicians, architects, engineers and teachers

As the 14th plane delivering S-400 defense missile system from Russia has landed in Turkey, two statements have come from the US. While the Department of State has referred to “ramifications”, President Trump has blamed former President Obama.

Actress Deniz Türkali, journalist İrem Afşin and academic Prof. Dr. Feride Acar have spoken to bianet about the recent attack against the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.

Two siblings aged four and eight were killed on Monday (July 15) after touching an explosive in the countryside of the southeastern city.

23,878 wildfires broke out between 2009 and 2018, causing 83,557 hectares of forest land to be destroyed, according to the figures of the General Directorate of Forestry.

Eight-year-old Ayaz Güloğlu and his four-year-old sister Nulpeda died in an explosion in the countryside in Ovacık, Dersim.

Akşener has submitted a petition to the prosecutor's office, requesting the confidentiality verdict on the investigation to be removed.

The word "Kurdistan" was censored in the Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho's book, "Eleven Minutes". What is always most dangerous is that Kurds saying "Kurdistan." So, what happens when you say the word in Turkey?

Pirates kidnapped 10 sailors in the Paksoy-1 ship which was heading to the Abidjan Port in the Ivory Coast.

The amount of agricultural poisons used in Turkey increased to 59 thousand tons since 2009. The southern province of Antalya saw the highest increase.

The fourth session of the case where Deniz Yücel, the former Turkey representative of the Die Welt newspaper, is on trial was held at the İstanbul 32th Heavy Penal Court today (July 16).

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the employment figures for April. Accordingly, the unemployment rate rose by 3.4 percent on a yearly basis.

The EU has delayed the announcement of the sanctions for several hours, waiting for the commemoration events for the 2016 coup attempt to end. Turkey's Foreign Ministry has condemned the sanctions.