Following the police raid carried out against HDP Beyoğlu District building, HDP Beyoğlu Co-Chair has been taken into custody.

A working hours regulation signed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu for Friday prayer was issued today (January 8) on the Official Gazette.

Indefinite alternate hunger strike began at Alewi Culture Center in Aalen province of Germany on January 7 to grow and perpetuate solidarity with Kurdish people.

Following yesterday’s (January 7) report of state-run Anadolu News Agency that Sabiha Gökçen explosion had originated from four howitzer bullets, Chief Prosecution has made a written statement: “The investigation still continues and has not resulted yet”.

Non-prosecution verdict has been issued on criminal complaint filed by those who were tortured in Şişli for lack of evidence as “there is no footage in the police station” despite İstanbul Medical Forensics report.

HDP Beyoğlu District Co-President Ruken Demir in her statement to bianet said no one is being let near the building and that there is an HDP official inside.

Human Rights Association members struggling for the transport of Levon Ekmekçiyans’s body upon request of his family have noted that the process had been completed in two years with practices not required in the regulations and have pointed out to the unlawfulness in his trial and execution.

Seven human rights defender women going to parliament has staged a protest, called for to “put an end to killings, speak of peace, re-establish solution table and resume the negotiations as soon as possible”.

It has came out that 16-year-old Aydın Mete from whom no news had been received for four days, had been killed in Silopi district of Şırnak province which is still under curfew.

Women demonstrating for the three politician women killed in Silopi, have re-expressed their demands of laying down the weapons and resuming the dialogue and negotiation process immediately.

Dicle News Agency reporter, Nedim Oruç who was taken into custody in Şırnak yesterday (January 6) has been arrested.

Fatma Kılıç wounded during curfew in Dargeçit district has lost her life in the hospital where she was taken for treatment.

On the Conference held by International Transparency Foundation under the title “Report Card of 2015 from Journalists’ Perspective and Open Data Use in Struggle Against Corruption”, journalists on trial due to their reports on corruption have explained.

HDP Vice Co-Chair, Meral Danış Beştaş, reacting against arrest of 18 co-mayors as of July has called for government to return to democratic politics, Davutoğlu said HDP-led municipalities will account for.

Submitting a parliamentary question following the transfer of the two imprisoners staying together with Kurdistan Workers’ Party Leader Öcalan, Peoples’ Democratic Party Ağrı Representative Öztürk has noted that “Öcalan was being restrained from exercising his rights awarded by law”.

The joint statement by 14 NGOs in Diyarbakır has drawn attention to possible outcome of lifting immunity of HDP deputies, and that asked for the solution process to be resumed.

34 different URLs including report of bianet has been blocked.

A soldier has lost his life due to an attack by members of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement in the city centre of Şırnak province.

On 24th day of curfew in Şırnak’s Cizre, 12-year-old Bişeng Goran has been murdered.

Three politician women who were killed as trying to get to Yeşilyurt neighborhood from Karşıyaka neighborhood in Silopi have been determined as DBP PM Seve Demir, KJA member Fatma Uyar, and Silopi People’s Assembly Co-Chair Pakize Nayır.