President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Palestine leader Mahmoud Abbas with 16 staff that dressed in the military uniforms of historical Turkish states.

French President François Hollande’s choice to shake Davutoğlu's hand even though he kissed or hugged all other leaders created viral mock videos on social media.

Diagnosed with a brain tumor and COAD, inmate Mehmet Canpolat died in a hospital in Istanbul.

The murders this week are not attacks against French freedom of speech, a tradition which has its own dark history, but it is one of many attacks on freedom of speech everywhere. The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are no more or no less heroes than the Iraqi, Syrian, Tunisian, or Algerian journalists who have been killed.

TRT 6, Turkey’s official television network in Kurdish since 2009 changed its name to TRT Kurdî.

The watch in İztuzu against privatization lasted for 10 days ended because of the court’s rule of provisional injunction. Ramazan Oruç, partner of Dalçev, who intended to buy the facility, called protestors as “greasy”.

The sheltering problem of Roma people, whose shelters were demolished, was temporarily solved.

Boğaziçi University Kilyos Sarıtepe Campus will produce energy for its own with the wind power plant and convey the surplus energy to the network.

Journalist Metin Göktepe, who was arrested on the job and killed due to the police violence 19 years ago, was commemorated at his graveside.

Charlie Hebdo attack that left 12 people dead was protested in Istanbul. Hundreds of people in two different marches said “Je Suis Charlie”, “I am Charlie”.

Police authorities announced the identity of a female suicide bomber who blew herself outside a tourism police station in Istanbul’s most tourist-filled district.

Journalists affiliated with various news organizations in Turkey protested the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris by releasing photos taken from their offices with the banner “Je suis Charlie”.

After the attack at Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters in Paris that left 12 people dead, a group assembled outside French Consulate in downtown Istanbul, protesting the incident with one minute of silence and pencils.

Turkey’s caricaturists and humor writers condemned the attack on Charlie Hebdo that led to the death of 12 people including 4 caricaturists.

Republican People’s Party deputy Engin Özkoç submitted a parliamentarian inquiry on the relation between mosques and universities in Turkey after statements released by President Erdoğan and Director of Religious Affairs.

According to bianet’s tally, male perpetrators killed 28 women in December 2014. While 28.5 percent were slain for seeking a divorce, 20 percent of harassment cases occurred on the internet and 30 percent in school.

Roman Havası, a TV series that stirred criticism for its discriminative and stereotype-provoking language, has been canceled by Turkey’s Show TV.

A female suicide bomber hit a police station in the historical district of Istanbul, leaving 2 policeman injured. Following the incident, the bomber was found dead.

Detained in the early morning from her apartment in Diyarbakır for “terrorism propaganda”, Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink has been released.

Özgür Ö., a petty officer at Turkish Armed Forces who was lost in Syria and allegedly kidnapped by ISIS, has been brought back to Turkey after an operation by MIT.