European Union’s Turkey 2014 Progress Report mentioned the case of Osman, a gay police officer who was expelled from his post due to his sexual orientation. “We are visible by the EU but not the Turkey’s judicial system,” Osman told bianet.

“Helping out Kobane would also mean helping the humanity,” wrote Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi in his open to letter to PM Davutoğlu.

Various journalists spoke up on their experience regarding yesterday’s curfew in Diyarbakır province as well as other districts in Turkey’s Kurdish-populated cities.

A trilingual petition signed by 230 activists including Noam Chomsky, Fatih Akın, Serra Yılmaz and Reyan Tuvi aims to urge the Turkish government to open a humanitarian corridor to Kobane.

İzmir Governor’s Office denied Turkish Army’s allegations on the burning of Turkish flag in Kadifekale Military Graveyard. A statement on the allegedy flag burning was removed from the military authorities’ website.

A prosecution has been launched against journalist Rahmi Yıldırım under the charge of “resisting a public officer” when he warned a TOMA vehicle not to use disproportionate force against demonstrators.

Hasan Kabakulak, a journalist who has been arrested for 20 months for charges related to being a spy of Syrian regime, has been released.

Male violence left 23 women killed in September 2014. 13 percent of women were killed for seeking divorce and 8.5 were killed despite a court restraint order.

Protests condemning the ISIS advance in Kobane left at least 18 dead across Turkey. Curfew order remains in Diyarbakır province.

6 governors in Turkey's Kurdish-populated cities issued curfew in the following cities/districts until a second notice: Diyarbakır, Batman, Dargeçit, Derik, Kızıltepe, Nusaybin, Mazıdağı and Savur due to clashes between police and demonstrators over the Kobane protests.

With the approximately five billion Turkish lira in public funding spent on protection for Syrian refugees over the last three years, the Turkish host population is no longer as receptive as it once was to serving as a refugee hosting ground.

Two professors in Hong Kong interview fellow academics, student activists and graduate students from mainland China in order to draw out Hong Kong’s history in relation to globalising forms of political expression. Colonial history, neoliberal urban governance, and Chinese authoritarianism all bear on the current unrest.