Yurt newspaper reporter Meriç Şenyüz (6 months) and Ulusal Kanal reporter Özer Sürmeli (5 months) have been convicted to prison terms for covering Turkey’s December 17 Corruption Probe.

Republican People’s Party deputy Mahmut Tanal held a press conference at the parliament including representatives from LGBTI organizations Pembe Hayat and KaosGL. He also submitted 5 parliamentarian inquiries and 1 law proposal on the topic.

A.Ö., a 14 year-old Syrian boy, has been shot by Turkish soldiers as he crossed the border along with his family to find refuge. His father told bianet that A.Ö. was shot in the head and lost vision in both his eyes.

Ahmet Özmen from Diyarbakır Bar Association told bianet that the reservations that Turkey put Convention on the Rights of the Child were related to Kurdish children’s rights. “The removal of these reservations will also alleviate the government,” he said.

After launching a public prosecution for insult charges, prosecutor Zekeriya Öz also filed for non-pecuniary damages from columnist Nedim Şener who wrote an article entitled “Prosecutors who doesn’t know to shame”.

Turkey’s Human Rights Association released a statement on Universal Children’s Day, underlining the significance of closing juvenile prisons, child labor, child abuse and other right violations.

Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar commented to bianet’s inquiries on how the “third eye”, a new observation delegation idea in discussion, would contribute to Turkey’s resolution process with PKK.

Interior Ministry declined an investigation request by two water cannon-stricken lawyers, saying that they were “treated within human rights”. Two lawyer submitted a motion.

No progress has been made in today’s hearing of Hasan Ferit Gedik case where 35 suspects are charged with “attempted murder of Hasan Ferit Gedik” as well as “founding a crime organization”, “property damage” during the riots in Gülsuyu neighborhood in 2013.

Around 40 media workers have been released from prison in Turkey after the limitation of cautionary arrests terms to 5 years. However, is there a new wave of arrests on the way for journalists who reported on the December 17 Corruption Probe?

Facebook censored bianet’s story in Turkish entitled “Vajina Sansürünün Anatomisi” which was published in English as “The Anatomy of Vagina Censorship in Turkey”.

Columnist Hakan Demir has acquitted from charges related to insulting then-PM Erdoğan when he wrote a tweet during Gezi Resistance in 2013.

The construction plan of Topçu Barracks - an old Ottoman building located in Istanbul’s center that led to Gezi Resistance - is in municipality agenda again. Previously, Council of State suspended the plans with detailed verdicts.

Wikipedia’s entry in Turkish for “vagina” has been censored. However, both service provider, telecommunication authorities and service providers union deny the situation, leaving the actor and reason of the censorship as mystery.

Search teams discovered six dead worker bodies in a mine located in Ermenek in the central province of Karaman. Efforts to reach out the remaining 8 workers are underway.

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has been ordered to pay damages for failing to protect a woman from male violence. “This case will set example to several similar cases,” advocate Müjde Tozbey told bianet.

Pledging to open its doors to LGBTI people around a project called “Meet Up to Respect”, a Turkish mosque located in Berlin had to postpone the event due to homophobic media coverage on the topic.

“There is no obstacle against the expansion of our delegation to meet with Abdullah Öcalan in Imrali Island and inform the public on the process,” said Baluken, a member of HDP’s delegation to the resolution process after meeting Vice PM Yalçın Akdoğan today.

Search teams discovered two more dead worker bodies in a mine located in Ermenek in the central province of Karaman 21 days after a water flooding that trapped 18 workers inside.

Assembling outside the Dutch Parliament, Gezi Solidarity of Holland urged the freedom of Karabulut Family, a couple and their two children who have previously applied for political asylum and now scheduled for deportation.