Born in a tent in Roma neighborhood and obtained a university degree, Özcan Purçu is now a pre-candidate for Republican People’s Party. He shared his life story and future projects to bianet.

9 administrative buildings of Peoples’ Democratic Party have been attacked across Turkey allegedly by Turkey’s ultranationalist groups. The incident coincided with the killing of Fırat Yılmaz Çakıroğlu on Saturday.

Human rights advocates and academicians started sharing their photos to protest the legislation of Turkey’s new Homeland Security Act - a series of regulations that impose 3 to 5 years of prison sentence for covering faces during demonstrations.

Özgür Gündem newspaper columnist Özgür Amed, a pen name that means “free Diyarbakır”, have been arrested for attending a demonstration in Diyarbakır.

The 87th Academy Awards have ended in Los Angeles last night with “Birdman, winning “Best Picture”, “Best Director”, “Best Original Screenplay” and “Best Cinematography”.

Turkish military held an operation to the tomb of Suleyman Shah outside Syria’s Karakozak village in order to bring back the remains of historical figure and 38 active-duty Turkish Army soldiers against the ISIS threat.

HDP co-chairperson Demirtaş said that AKP’s mission has not been democratizing but keeping the sultanate and he added “We will do our best not to allow the Homeland Security Act.”

Journalist Kemal Göktaş told that the incident of torture in Karabağlar district of İzmir province was covered and stated that he refused the postponement of his sentence in case there will be a punishment.

Haldun Açıksözlü, sued allegedly for “insulting” of former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while acting as the character “Laz marks”, was taken into custody. After paying definitive monetary fine, Açıksözlü has been released.

Turkey’s Spy Agency, MİT, allegedly sent a letter to police authorities, warning that Kobane-retreating ISIS fighters might have infiltrated into Turkey and be planning to plot bombing on embassies.

According to an election poll by KONDA in January 2015, HDP jumps off the election threshold with 10.6 percent while AKP regresses to 45.4 percent of votes.

Freemuse monitored and documented violations of freedom of expression for musicians on www.freemuse.org in 2014.

Journalist Nuh Köklü’s murder suspect has been arrested. On the other hand, Köklü’s funeral ceremony has been held in Ankara this afternoon.

Assigned to the northern province of Sinop, Yasemin Özata Çetinkaya became Turkey’s very third woman governor in a province.

Eser Çelik (18) submitted a complaint to the prosecutor’s office, saying that he had been tortured by bastinado an a police station in Istanbul.

The European Court of Human Rights rejected Turkey’s motion on the ruling that urged Turkey to remove mandatory religion classes in the education system.

Opposition deputies Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Musa Çam, Aykut Erdoğdu, Refik Eryılmaz and Mahmut Tanal have been wounded after being attacked by the ruling party deputies last night during a close door parliamentary session on homeland security draft.

Nuh Köklü, a journalist and former editor at bianet, has been assaulted with a knife by a local business worker after his snowball hit the shop window. Köklü lost his life despite all medical efforts.

According to Media Monitoring Center, an appeal to wear black for Özgecan Aslan was responded by 170 TV presenters from 32 networks.

#sendeanlat tag’s starter İdil Elveriş: “Let’s face with fact on how harassment problem is widespread and systematic.”