Villagers from the western district of Soma planted new olive trees after a thermic power plant construction left thousands of trees cut. The event was supported by local chamber of agriculture engineers.

Saffet Uyar, the owner of a mine in Ermenek where 18 workers were trapped (and presumably dead), surrendered to the police yesterday. 8 are under detention within the investigation.

"When that Turkish friend saw my Grandfather wasn’t at home, offered them to stay in his house. They went and hid for some time but the neighbors noticed there were Armenians in that house, which meant danger for the host."

Kaos Queer Studies Journal, a new semi-annual trans-disciplinary journal, is now available on bookstores.

A recent ruling in Hrant Dink case paved the way for a joint investigation against the policemen in Istanbul and Trabzon who were accused of underestimating the murder threats against the Armenian journalist.

Turkish Army soldiers attacked members of Free Art Initiative who attempted to form a human chain in Turkey’s border town Suruç, wounding 4 activist and killing 1 woman activist.

Turkey’s Higher Board of Radio and Television anonymous agreed to fine Kanal A television network for insulting Atatürk during a program called “From Official History to Real History”.

Search efforts for the 18 (presumably dead) miners trapped inside a mine located in the central district of Ermenek yielded with the finding of 2 dead worker bodies last night.

Education ministry officials removed the seal on Ferzad Kemanger Elementary School - a Kurdish-teaching school in Diyarbakır province sealed for reasons associated with application deadlines.

Search efforts are underway for the 18 miners trapped inside a mine located in the central district of Ermenek, Karaman.

Male perpetrators killed 28 women and teenagers girls in October 2014. 21 percent of women were slain for seeking a divorce.

Two minors stood trial for the second hearing of a case for charges related to opening a banner on January 24 that said “We want the school record card of Berkin Elvan”.

The attorneys of 46 Kurdish media workers standing trial within Turkey’s KCK Media case submitted a request to a court for the review of the case by Constitutional Court. The request was admitted.

Influential cleric Fethullah Gülen sent a tweet message, giving the signal that he is likely to sue a former Zaman newspaper columnist for defamation.

A prosecutor launched an investigation against Milliyet newspaper reporter Kemal Göktaş for covering an article on a comparison between criminal charges of police officers suspected of torture and a relative man of torture victim woman who insulted those police officers.

Despite ECHR and higher court rulings canceling the 90-day suspension of Özgür Radyo’s broadcasting, Turkey’s RTÜK insisted, leaving the case unresolved for 14 years.

Yu Hongyan, People’s Republic of China Ambassador to Turkey, visited a Chinese worker who was wounded in a mine incident in the northern province of Bartın. Local Pusula newspaper featured the story of the only woman mine worker.

Writers Union of Turkey and Human Rights Association promoted a poetry book that was compiled from 59 poets’ works dedicated on the 500th gathering of Saturday Mothers/People.

A joint project initiated by KURDÎ-DER and TMMOB created a Kurdish technical term dictionary into cell phones.

According to a report by Worker Health and Occupational Security Assembly, at least 14,555 workers died on the job on the 12th anniversary of AKP’s rule in Turkey.