A commemoration march has been organized for Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, a sociologist who fought against ISIS and was killed in action in Kobane.

An indictment regarding the incident that left 10 workers dead in Torun Center construction in Istanbul issued a nolle prosequi for 9 defendants including company owners.

37 individuals including artists and authors made a public appeal to meet at down Istanbul on October 25 for the 500 week of Saturday Mothers/People of Turkey meeting.

The European Court of Human Rights found it “excessive” that Murat Vural was convicted to 22.5 years of prison and removal of his electoral rights for pouring paint on Atatürk busts.

The mental health commission of Lambdaistanbul, an LGBTI organization, has launched a campaign to convince bookstore owners to remove books referring homosexuality as a disease.

Istanbul’s Şişli district municipality started to provide free healthcare for LGBTI people, allowing patients to get tested on STDs anonymously.

Amnesty International informed that around 100 refugees from Syria are at risk of being returned to the war-torn city of Kobane, urging Turkish authorities to release the refugees from their unlawful detention immediately.

In Turkey, Muslim groups have used the “human rights” framework to protect their religious practices, such as wearing headscarves in universities and workplaces. But what happens when the “rights” demanded by dominant religious groups contradict the rights and demands of others?

24 members of Turkey’s People, a delegation to for the resolution of Kurdish issue, took a decision to initiate a meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Semra Demir, an administrator at Democratic Regions Party, has been shut by a tear gas bomb canister during a gendarmerie intervention to villagers on watch-duty in the border with Kobane.

Jadaliyya interviewed Annika Marlen Hinze on her book “Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space” published by University of Minnesota Press.

The association of the Turkish language with the Turkish state and its politics makes many wary of acknowledging the indelible place of Turkish in the lives of Ottoman Armenians and their diasporan descendants.