Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals announced its verdict on Sarp Kuray, a convict who has been sentenced to life despite ECHR ruling that his trial wasn’t held fairly. Kuray was sentenced to life again.

A group of activists marched to Madımak Hotel in the eastern province of Sivas to commemorate the killing of 35 intellectuals in 1993.

Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court released 30 defendants yesterday while declining the release of two as “PKK still resumed its activities”.

İbrahim Betil launched a change.org campaign urging presidential candidates Demirtaş, İhsanoğlu and Erdoğan to discuss on certain issues on television at least two times before the elections.

Rıdvan Aktar, well-known journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

Rıdvan Aktar, famous journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

Journalists Association of Turkey awarded bianet-affiliated journalists Önderoğlu and Eryılmaz its annual “Press Freedom” Award. A ceremony will be held on July 24 - Turkey’s “Struggle Day on Press Freedom”.

Members of Juvenile Prisons Must Be Banned Initiative raised their voices with the participation of children. “Juvenile prisons must be closed and not children,” said Betül Kaplan, spokesperson of the initiative.

bianet compiled a chronicle of fire in Istanbul’s historical places within 10 years. Because Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality listed the 648 fires from 1510 to 2000 but they did not listed the later ones.

After Radikal newspaper finished its print edition, Radikal 2 readers launched a campaign against the cancellation of newspaper’s op-ed supplement.

Thousands of activists flocked downtown Istanbul yesterday, covering Beyoğlu district with the colors of rainbow.

Are the men of Islamic countries really happy? How do they carry that burden, how do they cover everything they are expected to be? What is the real problem; the book or the interpretations? Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, seeks answers to those questions in the last film episode of her Islam Trilogy.

Hasan Polat and Sami Özbil, two inmates who have been jailed for 23 and 16 years respectively despite ECHR verdict on “lack of fair trial”, have applied for their suspension of arrest term, saying that the recent Sledgehammer ruling on retrial must set example.

“The establishment of a Kurdish government in North Iraq will not annoy us," AKP Deputy Chairman Hüseyin Çelik said.

Having visited sanatoriums in Turkey for two years, RUHISAK reported the violation of rights. The only solution for fixing these places is to change the mentality which does not see the patients as individuals.

ECHR found Turkey guilty of violating the “ban of torture and ill-treatment” in the case of Zalim Yarashonen, a Russian citizen who had been kept in Kumkapı Removal Centre in Istanbul for six months.

Human Rights Association (IHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV) issued a joint press release at IHD Istanbul Headquarters on 26 June - the International Day in support of Victims of Torture.

Members of Human Rights Association will march to Turkey’s Parliament and meet authorities today to demand the liberation of sick prisoners.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş said that he could run for president in the condition that his party assembly approved his candidacy.

Turkey's first Woman Party is establishing with a group of woman’s visit to Ataturk’s Mausoleum after they submitting the party registration request to Interior Ministry.