Education Ministry officials in Diyarbakır province allegedly ordered the list of teachers who taught in Kurdish on February 21, International Mother Language Day.

A Turkish court released 5 suspects including sons of cabinet ministers and Reza Zarrab who have been arrested within Turkey’s corruption probe investigation, leaving no jailed defendants in the case.

CHP held a demonstration in Taksim Square, protesting the alleged phone recordings between PM Erdoğan and his son in the aftermath of December 17 Corruption Probe Raids.

Prosecutors decided not to follow charges in the death of Serdar Kadakal, a Kadıköy resident who allegedly died due to extreme use of tear gas after a Gezi Resistance protest in Istanbul.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey violated the right of Uğur Kaymaz (13) and Ahmet Kaymaz who were killed by a police raid in Mardin province in 2004.

Around 1,5 million users have viewed the video of phone call recordings allegedly between PM Erdoğan and his son on the first day of Corruption Probe. The video, released by several users on YouTube, has surpassed Katy Perry’s song Dark Horse.

At least 3,064 notable people’s phones have allegedly been tapped in Turkey within an investigation approved by a prosecutor and launched after an anonymous complaint.

A further analysis on surveillance cameras have detected the identity of the policeman who shot Abdullah Cömert dead with a gas bomb canister in the Gezi Resistance. Cömert family filed a lawsuit to a prosecutor for the arrest of suspect.

29 students have been ordered to stand trial for sending tweet messages including “They are torturing, please go and help”. The indictment only cited PM Erdoğan as the victim of the aforementioned tweets.

bianet is releasing the list of candidates who will be running for the upcoming municipal assembly elections on March 30.

Ankara 10th Peace Court approved a list of mandates allowing the police to search any individual, vehicle and belongings for 15 days in 6 different neighborhoods without a further court order.

4 defendants stood trial for calling PM Erdoğan a “dictator” on Tuesday. PM Erdoğan's motion to join the case was granted as “he was affected”, advocate Bolaç said that the word “dictator” was within the limits of free expression.

Roştîya Asmê, the name of the first LGBTI association in Dersim province, means “moonlight” in Zazaki. “Homophobia is the same everywhere. Every region calls hate by a different name. We should not be deceived by Dersim’s political stance,” Loren Elva told bianet.

The first reaction towards the implementation of the internet censorship bill came from Turkey’s news websites with putting black tapes on their logos.

While 59 journalists and 23 publishers were arrested in 2013; 186 journalists, 1 media outlet and 2 internet sites were subjected to attacks. ECHR ordered to Turkey to pay 198,935 euros in FoE related cases. 143 media workers lost their jobs.

Freedom of speech counts as cornerstone of democracy. In Norway the internet is considered as an free arena where all can participate with own ideas. This is not the same in Turkey.

The ‘overwhelmed’ masses, the majority of whom are composed of paid employees, displayed a reaction against the government, which had intervened in citizens’ lifestyles and whose unlawful policies were based on unequal growth and development. This reaction showed us that class struggle was not a phenomenon to be relegated merely to the workplace, but also in the urban sphere and daily life.

The majority of Turkey's prominent humor magazines allocated their covers to the recent phone call intervention of PM Erdoğan to remove a news ticker on Habetürk TV.

Michael Dickinson, an artist who has been deported after facing prosecution for his caricatures on PM Erdoğan, moved to an occupation house in London.

Advocate Tora Pekin told bianet that PM Erdoğan’s phone call intervention to Habertürk TV is punishable by 1 to 5 years of prison according to Turkish Penal Code Article 124/3.