Diyarbakır 5th Heavy Penal Court has ruled that HDP Hakkari MP Güven, who has been on a hunger strike for 141 days, shall be taken to court by force. Lawyer Yalçındağ-Baydemir has stated that lawsuit filed against her violates Article 83 of the Constitution.

On the occasion of March 27 World Theater Day, theater artists have marched through the streets of Kadıköy in İstanbul, chanting the slogan “Stages are ours, streets are ours.” Artists have celebrated their day with concerts.

Ahead of the local elections, the İstanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association has organized workshops for children aged between 7 and 12, asking their expectations from the local administrations.

While the 27th Heavy Penal Court has sentenced Feyza Akınerdem and Neş’e Bilgin to 15 months in prison, it has given a prison sentence of 2 years, 6 months to Ali Kerem Saysel, who concluded his remarks by saying “Demand for peace cannot be tried.”

Şaban Vatan, the father of Rabia Naz who died suspiciously last year, has reacted to the statement of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office: "There are no findings that belong to my baby on the scene of the incident."

Chalak Events will hold “Kurdish Expression Festival” with Acmos, Retrò Scenayê, Comitato Salvagente and Paris Kurdish Institute in Turin, Italy on April 10-13. Several artists, academics and literary figures will introduce Kurdish culture for four days.

The four organizations have drawn attention to the hunger strikes and inmates who ended their lives in prisons, saying, "Let's defend life."

Academic Gevher Gökçe has been sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison on charge of “aiding a terrorist organization as a non-member.” The prison sentence of the academic has not been deferred.

It can be commented that the politics oriented towards the region, including in the AKP era, is in a historical failure. The fact that a peaceful solution is not provided for the Kurdish question has been evolving into a punishment with impoverishment.

Şaban Vatan, who is campaigning on social media to illuminate the suspicious death of her 11-year-old daughter Rabia Naz, has deposed at the security directorate upon the criminal complaint of Nurettin Canikli, an MP of the ruling AKP.

Male student F.K. has been suspended from school for three months after harassing a woman student at the campus of Koç University in İstanbul. Private security guards of the university have been closely surveilling women protesting the incident.

The request for arrest of Mehmet D., who is tried for sexually abusing 12-year-old E.S., has been rejected again. Speaking to bianet ahead of the final hearing to be held on March 29, attorney Yaprak has said, “It causes a second trauma on the child.”

HDP's imprisoned former co-chair Demirtaş has given us an interview. Talking on politics, literature and arts, he says, "We will find a way to live in peace."

Soylu has said that the candidates allegedly having relations with terrorist organizations will be suspended even when they are elected to municipal councils. What does the Law on Elections of Local Administrators say about the issue?

People of Turkey will go to polls on March 31 to elect their local administrators. Here is a detailed guide to the country's sixth election in the last five years.

Medya Çınar has ended her life in protest of the isolation conditions imposed on PKK leader Öcalan. The PKK has released a statement, calling an end to "individual acts."

Four academics have been sentenced to 15 months in prison; the announcement of the verdict has been suspended. Another academic has been sentenced to 2 years, 6 months in prison; the prison sentence of the academic has not been deferred.

Responding the calls to revert the Hagia Sophia to a mosque, President Erdoğan first said, "Fill the Sultanahmet Mosque first," then "I won't be played like this." Finally, he said last night that they may change Hagia Sophia's status from a museum to a mosque.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced that the unemployment rate was 11 percent in Turkey in 2018. Increasing by 83 thousand people in comparison with the previous year, the number of unemployed reached 3 million 537 thousand people in 2018.

Inmates Beçet and Sağlam have ended their lives in protest of the isolation conditions imposed on PKK leader Öcalan. HDP MP Güven, who is on a hunger strike to protest the isolation has said, "Don't end your lives. I can't carry on like this."