Concerning the allegations that some mayors will be asked to resign, President Erdoğan has said, “Everything is good when one is brought to a post, but why asking them to leave is found odd?”

Lawsuits are being filed against academics who have signed the peace declaration “We will not be a party to this crime” on charge of “terrorist propaganda”.

Describing the allegations that he was asked for his resignation by Erdoğan as “sedition”, Ankara Mayor Gökçek said that supporting Erdoğan is the duty of every Muslim.

Speaking on the explosion that killed his 5-year-old son Umut Kozay, Cemil Kozay has demanded that the city surveillances cameras be examined.

CHP’s Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary inquiry about Umut Kozay who died in explosion resulting by an explosive device he found on the street.

Six articles of the draft law on the amendments to the Law on Population Registration including the articles that allow religious leaders to perform a legally valid religious marriage and a verbal statement be a legally valid form of declaration for a birth registration, have been passed by the Sub-Commission.

Russia is preparing to lift the tomato embargo, however, the tomato export from Turkey won’t be permitted until 2018.

Four soldiers have lost their lives and four others have been injured as an improvised explosive device planted on a road in Yüksekova district of Hakkari was detonated.

bianet invites local journalists from Dersim and neighboring cities and districts, faculty of communication students and rights defenders to the news workshop.

For me Mam Jalal always remained the same despite his political career that took him to the highest post in Iraq

Kurdsat, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s TV channel has confirmed that Kurdish politician and former President of Iraq Talabani has passed away in Berlin where he was in treatment.

“Sexual orientation” could find a place for itself under the chapter “Rights Advocacy” of the psychological counseling and guidance handbook prepared by the Ministry of Education.

Following the voting held at the Parliamentary General Assembly, HDP Siirt MP Konca has been relieved of her MP duties.

Ankara Governorship has banned all mass events in city-wide throughout October 2017. The justification for the ban is: “The demonstrations to be held in support of Gülmen and Özakça may jeopardize public safety”.

Esenyalı Women’s Solidarity Association has stated that a discharged laborer woman was harassed by the workplace representative of the United Metal-Labor Union and asked the union about the investigation in which they “found her at fault”.

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the monthly inflation inflation rates for September 2017. The monthly inflation rate has risen by 0.65% in September and the yearly inflation rate has reached 11.2%.

Getting out of his private car, Sergeant Major Kızıl has lost his life in the armed assault launched in Silvan district in Diyarbakır.

The prison sentence of teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for saying “don’t let children die” on the live TV programme Beyaz Şov, has been affirmed by the higher court.

Concerning access block on the book titled “Mahrem/Gizli Belgelerde”, the Publishers Union of Turkey in its statement has stressed that protecting freedom of expression and publishing is a constitutional necessity.

Solidarity Academies founded in 2016 by academics who were discharged through statutory decrees but aimed at continuing to pass on their academic knowledge through alternative local academic organizations, will start the new academic year with inauguration lectures.