Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel has criticized that deputies from Germany were denied entry to İncirlik Military Base and stated that they were in search for an alternative to İncirlik base.

Taken into custody on May 12, cumhuriyet.com.tr Editor-in-Chief Oğuz Güven has been referred to court for arrest.

Conscientious Objection Foundation is going to organize a series of events in the Human Rights Foundation and 26A Cafe on the occasion of the May 15 International Conscientious Objectors Day.

The unemployment rate marks 12.6% in February 2017. The unemployment rate has increased by 1.7% compared with the same period of last year and dropped by 0.4% compared with last month.

VakıfBank Women’s Volleyball team has won victory in the FIVB Women’s Club World Championship for the second time. Vakıfbank is beside Eczacıbaşı VitrA Women’s Volleyball Team, which is the second team that became world champion for the second time.

According to data of the Association for Labor Health and Occupation Safety, 1,571 miners have lost their lives in occupational homicides in the mines during the AKP term.

Three women attorneys, who are from the ÇHD), attempting to protest the authorities’ unresponsiveness for the hunger strike of Gülmen and Özakça have been dragged on the floor and taken into custody.

The litterateurs have called on the authorities: “The authorities must step in to meet the demands of Gülmen and Özakça, who protest their unjust discharges and demand that they be reinstated to their job”.

What is the rationale behind sentencing Sibel in such a mad rush where there has been no investigation yet launched into the ones who shot her?

Editor-in-Chief of Cumhuriyet daily’s online website Oğuz Güven has been taken into custody.

Police have cleared the Human Rights Monuments where Gülmen and Özakça have been resisting for 185 days on Yüksel Street, four people have been detained.

Imprisoned journalist Ahmet Şık has applied to the European Court of Human Rights and demanded an order that he be immediately released.

Discharged academic Yay has been detained after the police searched his home.

About US arms aid to the YPG, President Erdoğan has said “I wish the US backs down from some of the facts that they’ve voiced”.

According to bianet male violence monitoring report, 16% of the murders occurred in public places in the glare of publicity including shopping mall, hotel lobby, in the middle of the street.

Muş Governorship has announced that curfew has been declared in 21 neighbourhoods, villages and plateau regions in Muş province as of 3:30 a.m. Some districts have been closed to traffic.

4 CHP MPs have gone on hunger strike for 24 hours to act in solidarity with academic Gülmen and teacher Özakça, who have been on hunger strike for 64 days with the demand that they be reinstated to their jobs.

The winners of the 20th Flying Broom International Women’s Films Festival have been announced.

Ruling on the objection to the 12 journalists being arrested soon after their release, the court has decided that the journalist remain further under arrest. Interpreting the court’s decision, Prof. Dr. Yaman Akdeniz said: “Like the arrest order, overruling the objection is against the law as well”.

Prof. Dr. David Harvey has said “I express my solidarity with my friends and colleagues in Turkey who are on hunger strike” in the video he released for Gülmen and Özakça who have been on hunger strike for 63 days.