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.

CHP Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu applied to Ankara 9th High Criminal Court for the removal of the media ban imposed on the coverage of the raid and hostages in Turkey’s General Consulate in Mosul.

Siirt 1st High Criminal Court released 4 defendants within KCK case including Abdullah Çetin, a report from DIHA.

Turkey’s Ministry of National Education of Turkey prepared a manual book that aimed to teach children about forbidden intimacy in Religious Culture and Morale Knowledge class. The manual draft was prepared for both genders.

Constitutional Court ruled that Öcalan's right was violated when his book was seized and burnt in the process of publishing.

We are in Kavar, where a revival takes place. The streets decorated with flowers, the famous milk and honey. Especially, women pull out all the stops to reestablish a new life.

HDP Deputy Levent Tuzel said that they will struggle for the achievement of their candidate, and not support other candidates from other parties in second round of presidential election.

Dwellers of Sarıgöl, a neighborhood in Istanbul with a majority of Roma people, reacted against the urban renewal project - an urbanization effort that was planned without considering the needs and demands of Roma people.

bianet interviewed HDP Assembly member Meral Danış Beştaş on the retrial order of Aziz Yıldırım due to the closure of Turkey’s Special-Duty Courts. She said the same should apply for KCK defendants.

While Turkey’s Highway Administration 8th Division filled charges against Adıyaman Duruş Newspaper, Adıyaman 1st Magistrate Court ruled that the sued article was within the limits of criticism.

28 defendants stood trial yesterday for charges related to shouting slogans “thief Erdoğan” and “murderer Erdoğan” during a rally triggered by Berkin Elvan’s death.