Responding to an official inquiry, Interior Minister Muammer Güler said that the police intervention with pepper gas during U-14 soccer game did not pose health threat to children while nobody was battered. “He didn’t see the game correctly,” CHP deputy Oran objected.

Advocate Seyda Selek commented on court’s red notice demand for Pınar Selek, saying that it was “an attempt for her client’s criminalization”. She also added that they are in the process of take the life sentence verdict to Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals.

Survivors of 2011 Van Province earthquake have started a hunger strike this morning, urging the authorities to improve their right to adequate housing and living conditions in prefabricated sites.

U.Ö and O.D., two privates under compulsory drafting lost their lives after an argument. U.Ö. allegedly committed suicide after shooting O.D. dead.

Police detained Burak Butur and Hasan Ortatepe - newspaper sellers who work for BirGün and Aydınlık daily newspapers respectively - for noise pollution complaints. “We will continue to sell our newspapers,” Butur told bianet.

bianet interviewed High Architect Sena Özfiliz and UN-Habitat AGFE local expert Cihan Uzunçarşılı regarding the possible negative impacts of olympic games on the city of Istanbul and its people.

Tensions have risen as smugglers attempted to transgress the border between Syria and Turkey last night. According to Turkish Armed Forces, clashes have resumed till early morning.

Middle East Technical University (METU) students and some Gezi Park forums in Ankara have launched a protest in order to prevent a planned road construction through METU campus and forest.

Several NGOs joined their forces to establish Marmara Migration Watch Platform in order to ensure a healthy process for returns to villages.

Dozens of Gezi Parkers gathered in Mamak Halkevi in Ankara on Sunday after the appeal “Bring your book and attend our concert” - a campaign that aimed to turn the house into Ethem Sarısülük Library.

According to Statistics Institute of Turkey, sexual assault crimes have climbed by 30 percent in the past 5 years. 409 state officials including policemen, soldiers, specials ops troops, village guard or prison guards charged with rape in the past 15 years left unpunished.

KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency released a statement on the ongoing peace process, saying that Kurdish movement has done for its part but the Turkish government delayed the process by not taking any concrete steps.

Another mortar fell from the Syrian border, hitting an apartment in Turkey’s Ceylanpınar. Around the same hours, several bullets and bomb splinters left 4 people injured.

“Instead of dealing violence against women, UN must stop human killings,” said Turkey’s Directory of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) President Mehmet Görmez after signing a protocol with Family and Social Policies Ministry on the prevention of male violence.

Hrant Dink Foundation has released its quarterly report on “Hate Speech in Media and Discriminatory Discourse” for the January - April 2013 period. Columnists marked as the biggest hate speech makers in Turkey. It also included the media coverage on BDP and HDK’s trip to Black Sea Region.

Hakkari Mayor Bedirhanoğlu has been convicted to 15 months of prison for attending the funeral ceremony of Ferdane Kına, a PKK guerrilla.

bianet interviewed a group of people who fled from the civil war in Syria and moved to Turkey’s Hatay province. “I hope Turkey and Syria will not become enemies. I hope our children will grow up here,” a woman said.

“What our Prime Minister said about having 3 children is only the minimum. We will need more young working population in the years to come,” said SGK President Yadigar Gökalp Ilhan, raising the bar to 5 children.

600 policemen have attacked 6 activists who walked from the southern province to Istanbul in order to protest police violence and demand for justice, Ahmet Saymadi said. According to BDP deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü, police sprayed pepper gas from close distance, leaving him injured.

“We certainly believe that we will be on air with our new channels soon. We are working on the issue,” Erdal Er, a programmer from recently unlicensed Nuçe TV told bianet.