Organized by the Boğaziçi University LGBTI+ Studies Club, the 7th Pride Parade was held in the university on April 17. Waving rainbow flags, the students also carried the banner, “We have brought along the METU Pride Parade to everywhere."

A court has released businessperson Can Gürkan in the case of the 2014 occupational homicide in Soma coal mine which claimed 301 lives.

Whenever a war or a conflict starts, the virtues of peace are forgotten and the voice of nonviolent people calling for peace is muted by the voice of weapons. Hence, the times when real love of peace is tested are not the times of peace, but times of war.

The extraordinary objection raised by the HDP to the decision of the Supreme Election Council (YSK) preventing the mayor-elects discharged by statutory decrees from taking office has been rejected by the YSK by a vote of seven to four.

Turkey has again ranked 157th among 180 countries in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Commenting on Turkey, the organization has underlined, “Turkey is the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists.”

The new Finnish parliament has three winners: women, young politicians and nationalist and populist Finns party. The election last Sunday showed also that the population in this 5, 5 million people nation is much divided especially in questions of immigration and climate change.

After 46 dogs and 2 cats were found dead in the capital city of Ankara last week, four other dogs have been found dead in an empty field in Çankaya, Ankara. Sausages containing chemical substances have been found in the vicinity.

President Erdoğan has commented on the local elections the economic situation, saying that the seven elections in five years "imposed a heavy burden on the economy."

Releasing a declaration on hunger strikes, 150 professional and rights organizations and associations have underlined that they defend life and added: “It is not at all difficult for the government to resolve hunger strikes which started with a legal demand.”

The main opposition party's chair Kılıçdaroğlu has said that the Supreme Election Council's decision to not mandate winning mayors who were previously discharged from public service is "against democracy and the rule of law."

Dilara Şenkaya has followed and photographed the arrival of Metropolitan Mayor of İstanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu in municipality building in Saraçhane after receiving his certificate of election from the İstanbul Provincial Election Council.

Teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was previously arrested on charge of “terror propaganda” for having said in a TV program “Don’t let children die and mothers cry” and whose execution of sentence was suspended after her release, has been imprisoned again.