Andrey Kelin and Maria Zakharova from Russia's Foreign Ministry have criticized the EU sanctions to Turkey for its hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Put on trial for being Editors-in-Chief of the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, Korur-Fincancı, Önderoğlu and Nesin have been acquitted. Amnesty Turkey has expressed concerns over the ones convicted for having solidarized with the newspaper.

Canan Kaftancıoğlu, the chair of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul Organization, is facing 17 years in prison for her social media posts.

Constitutional Court has ruled for the annulment of the article authorizing the Council of Higher Education Chair to directly launch an investigation against academics. “It undermines scientific autonomy and exceeds inspection authority”, it has concluded.

The Ministry has called upon the US to "return from the mistake that will cause irreparable wounds in strategic relations" after it excluded Turkey from the F-35 program over the procurement of S-400 systems from Russia.

After the US has announced that Turkey has been suspended from the F-35 program in the wake S-400 delivery to the country, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has stated, “As a NATO member, Turkey is much more than S-400.”

Combining all Parliamentary inquiries submitted about the issue so far, the Parliament has unanimously agreed to establish a Parliamentary commission to investigate the suspicious death of 11-year-old Rabia Naz Vatan.

After the S-400 air defense missile system has been delivered o Turkey, two official statements have been made by the US Department of Defense and the White House: Turkey has been suspended from the F-35 program.

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.