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.

“Names like Talat Pasha still traumatize people. We will start the work from the streets,” Eli Haligua, a candidate council member, said.

Trans citizens told bianet about the troubles they go through as they are voting. While T-Der urged trans people to go to the polls even though they might face discrimination, it also called election authorities to take the necessary precautions.

A group of university students occupied an abandoned house in Beşiktaş and named it “Berkin Elvan Student House”.

Berkin Elvan is not the first child who died as a result of state violence. Hundreds of children lost their lives because of the state violence since 1988.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan’s “aggravated” life sentence violated the convention article related to “prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment”.

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“When Berkin was shot, he cried ‘Anne’ (mother),” said one of the witnesses who released their testiminies within the investigation on Berkin Elvan’s death.

Arzu Çağlan, a senior radio programmer in Best FM, has been laid off after she commemorating Berkin Elvan. “Being fired for telling the truth is better than misguiding people by telling the wrong and staying silent,” she said.

“This double standard must come to an end,” said attorneys of 8 jailed socialists within MLKP case including journalists Füsun Erdoğan and Arif Çelebi who have been jailed over 5 years.

TRT reporter Elif Akkuş has allegedly been reassigned to a tech support position after sending tweets related to the death of Berkin Elvan. “We don’t know about the case, but there must be a reason for transfer,” HR department said.

Saturday Mothers/People visited Elvan’s family after 468th meeting on Saturday which started with a song dedicated to Berkin Elvan.

A full page ad entitled “No Justice For Berkin” to honor Berkin Elvin by “Gezi Democracy Movement” has been published in the New York Times.

“Your son is also ours, our pain is mutual,” said Berkin Elvan’s father Sami Elvan to Burak Can Karamanoğlu’s father Halil Karamanoğlu to send his condolences after Wednesday night’s shooting.

The fight between two groups last night in Istanbul’s Okmeydanı district left Burak Can Karamanoğlu (22) dead and two other wounded.

Ahmet Küçüktağ (30), a police officer who had a stroke due to tear gas exposure, died last night in the southeastern province of Dersim.

Following Berkin Elvan's funeral ceremony, police promptly attacked those who gathered around Osmanbey district in Istanbul. While Taksim Square has been gripped by the police, Gezi Park has been shut down, again.

Clouds of gas blanket the streets of Ankara and Istanbul, and the people’s eyes fill with tears. They cry for 15-year-old Berkin Elvan who is dead from a head injury caused by a gas canister fired by riot police last June.

Thousands are bidding farewell to Berkin Elvan, a 15 year-old child who has been in comatose for 269 days due to a police gas bomb canister and died as of early yesterday morning.

While the police used tear gas to break up protestors, at least man was reported injured in the head by a canister and a woman suffered from crush foot by a TOMA vehicle.