According to a report released by Biber Gazı Yasaklansın Initiative, people were exposed to tear gas in different cities for 21 days in February, for 13 days in the first 22 days of March.

A military court in Northern Cyprus released all jailed defendants within the case of Uğur Kantar, a private under compulsory drafting who allegedly lost his life due to a solitary confinement penalty known as “disko”.

Istanbul 2nd High Criminal Court released 4 jailed defendants affiliated with Socialist Democracy Party who were detained in Taksim Square area on June 11, leaving no jailed defendants in Istanbul Gezi Resistance case.

The pilot of downed Syrian jet spoke in the hospital in Latakia and he defended himself that he had never transgressed the border.

TGC sued for the suspension of Turkey’s information and communication authorities for the ruling on the twitter ban.

The city of Istanbul experienced one of its most crowded Newroz celebrations in the recent years with demonstrators extending up to the waterfront in the massive Kazlıçeşme square. Those who participated in the celebration expressed their hopes about Turkey’s resolution process.

A compilation made by bianet revealed that male perpetrators left 25 women dead in December 2013. While 16 percent of slain women previously filed a complaint, 20 percent were killed for seeking divorce.

Özyeğin University authorities launched an investigation against a student in Özyeğin University’s Applied Sciences Academy for “damaging the dignity of an institution staff” on his messages on the social media.

Various artists protested the twitter ban in Turkey with their drawings.

Only few hours after PM Erdoğan’s words “We will root out twitter in Turkey” in an election rally in Bursa province, authorities shut down the access to twitter via default DNS in Turkey.

“The court issued a ruling. We will root out whatever that is twitter or mwitter. Some might say ‘What would the international community say?’ I don’t care,” PM Erdoğan said during an election rally in Bursa province.

In Adalar, we have responded by putting forth an all-female ticket for city mayor and council. Not only are we all women and live on the islands, but we have Muslims and Christians, Turks, Armenians, Greeks and even a foreign-born woman (American from Texas) on the ticket for city council, and our candidate for mayor, Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof, is of Armenian origin.