Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Melih Gökçek sued Armenian-origined journalist Hayko Bağdat over charges related to “insult” and “igniting to hatred” when he ironically wrote on Twitter: “The city of Ankara looks like an Armenian. Shame on you.”

While Iran condemned the recent strikes in Yemen orchestrated by 10 countries led by Saudi Arabia, Turkey supported the operation, saying that it had been informed priorly.

A bomb explosion at Adımlar Magazine headquarters in Istanbul’s Kağıthane district left 1 columnist dead and 3 wounded including the editor-in-chief.

Instagram closed the account of prominent journalist Ahmet Şık after receiving massive complaints over the photos he shared during Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır province on March 21.

Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said that the monitoring committee to the resolution of the Kurdish problem is not their red line as long the “process would continue”.

bianet interview Turkey’s first openly-declared LGBTI politician Sedef Çakmak prior to June 7 Elections. We talked about her worries prior to being elected as well as the current outcome.

Greenpeace activists climbed to one of the tallest buildings in the southern district of Mersin to protest Turkey’s first planned nuclear power plant in Akkuyu district.

Caricaturist Bahadır Baruter has been convicted to pay a fine of 7,000 liras for insulting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a caricature.

The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty of violating union rights in the case of Ismail Sezer.

Bese Hozat, co-leader of PKK’s military wing KCK, announced the conditions for laying down of arms: start of negotiations under Öcalan’s 10 articles, working of Monitoring Council, forming of Truth Commission and a new constitution.

Ankara Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into Vice PM Bülent Arınç and Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Melih Gökçek under different charges after their debate on President Erdoğan’s comments on the resolution process.

A full-blown spat between Vice PM Arınç and Ankara Mayor Gökçek after President Erdoğan’s comments on Turkey’s resolution process revealed a transition of power that caused unrest amid ruling party AKP grassroots.

We compiled PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s Newroz message’s reactions by various politicians, human rights activists and writers.

“One of the steps to make concerning the resolution process is to form a monitoring committee. We have a roadmap,” Vice PM Bülent Arınç said as he spoke positively on Öcalan’s Newroz message.

"To get over the 90 years Rebuclic history which is full of conflicts, we are walking to future with knitted real peace and universal democratic criterias" Öcalan said in his letter read during the Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır.

After a “sympathizer”s complaint, Penguen magazine caricaturists Baruter and Aydoğan face trial for charges related to insulting the “prime minister. Here is the timeline…

“For me, the most dramatic story about the Genocide is my family’s. My grandmother’s,” Armenian Genocide Museum Director told bianet.

President Erdoğan said that he didn’t look at the idea of a monitoring committee to the resolution of the Kurdish problem positively. The member names, on the other hand, are still unknown and pending clarification.

Police assaulted Newroz celebrators in the southeastern province of Batman yesterday with tear gas, rubber bullets and cannoned water. Several injuries were reported.

According to a poll by Gezici Research Firm for March 2015, ruling AKP’s votes are currently 39.3 percent while CHP 29.6 percent, MHP 17.7 percent, and HDP 11.4 percent - above the election threshold.