Turkey’s parliamentarian commission on constitution drafting reached consensus over the prosecution of children without arrest. The commission also agreed to include the expression “sexual orientation” in order to prevent discrimination towards LGBT groups.

One soldier on compulsory drafting has reportedly been killed while “jokingly” pointing rifles with another fellow private in the southeastern district of Lice, Diyarbakır.

Those who were laid off during Turkey’s February 28 Government Ousting will return their posts. “We are hoping that women will return their posts with their headscarves this time,” Capital City Women’s Platform Chairperson Semiz said.

FILA has barred Turkish wrestler Kayaalp from attending tournaments for a period of six months due to his racist tweets and insults on Gezi Resistance protestors in Turkey. “We will not let our kid go wasted,” Turkey’s Wrestling Federation said.

Kurdistan Youth Movement Association, the first association including the word “Kurdistan”, has been established in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

Ignoring an ECHR verdict, Turkey’s Council of State confirmed a lower court ruling on the rejection of repartition demand in the case of Abdullah Yaşa - a 13 year old victim of police canisters during a demonstration in Diyarbakır in 2006.

A group of people has launched a campaign in Istanbul’s Yoğurtçu Park, accepting medicine and dry foods donations in order to support people in Rojava - Syria’s Kurdish region.

Officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul that has been subjected to prosecution by Architects Chamber and City Planners Chamber because of its violation of essential urbanism principles and city planning.

Prosecutors charged Sedat Kapanoğlu and 40 account holders with the “blasphemy on the religious values of a society fraction” due to their entries on Ekşisözlük, a popular social media website in Turkey. Site owner Kapanoğlu and other users are facing prison sentences from 6 up to 12 months.

A court arrested four suspects (including a policeman) for the willful murder of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a Gezi Park protestors who died in the results of massive beating in Eskişehir province.

Recently, several Facebook and Twitter account have either been shut down or suspended. bianet asked the reason of this recent phenomenon to Erkan Saka, lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) released a statement on yesterday’s Ergenekon trial verdict, saying that “they were feeling and sharing the grief of their longtime co-workers and their family members”.