A parliamentary commission - in charge of researching the means of societal peace and determine on the ongoing resolution process in Turkey - has held its first meeting last night, pledging to inform the public more on the process and launch investigations in Turkey and abroad.

Hatice Yaşar, a Kurdish politician who was forced to leave Turkey and move to Sulaymaniyah in 1980, has been detained and arrested yesterday upon her arrival at Ankara's Esenboğa Airport.

Police authorities will work on a plan to protect violence victim women with private security guards, Sabah newspaper said.

A team of police officers and intervention tanks casted gas bombs and used water cannons against a bunch of protestors who were peacefully gathering on the steps of Istanbul Courthouse every Wednesday noon to protest arbitrary arrests and apartment raids.

69 journalists and 30 distributors were behind bars between January and March 2013 in Turkey. Out of 69 journalists and 30 publishers currently jailed in Turkey, 44 journalists and 29 distributors were from the Kurdish media.

Italy's police forces detained Seda Aktepe, an Atılım newspaper journalist who was sentenced to 3 years of prison for "committing an organized crime while not being an organization member". Aktepe asked for asylum.

The discharge of May Day police intervention victims Dilan Alp and Meral Dönmez created controversy in Turkey as family members and advocated claimed that Alp was discharged too early and police attempted to detain Dönmez.

On Sunday dozens of people took part in Easter Mass on Turkey's Imroz island (Gökçeada) around a service presided by Greek Patriarch Bartholomeos.

On Sunday Turkey's Assyrians observed the Easter in Mardin province with a sense of unrest due to the abduction of Pavlo Yazıcı and Yuhhana Ibrahim - two Orthodox metropolitans in Syria who vanished on April 23.

According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 57 workers were killed from work-related injuries in April with construction and steel sectors causing the most casualties.

Murdered journalists, imprisoned journalists, releases, attacks, threats, obstructions, investigations and trials; defamation cases, actions for personal rights and compensation cases; decisions by the Harmful Publications Board, bans, suspensions and confiscations; decisions by the European Court of Human Rights and the Turkish Radio and Television Higher Board...

CHP deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted an official inquiry to PM Erdoğan, asking him a series of questions including police violence, Istanbul transport shut down and pepper gas rates.

The following recordings from police intervention in Beşiktaş constitute only a slight part of what happened yesterday for several hours in Istanbul.

Police forces used teargas bombs and cannoned water to intervene May Day demonstrators in Istanbul, detaining 72 and leaving scores hospitalized including 3 with serious condition.

Engin Dinç, an intelligence commissioner who hired one of Hrant Dink murder suspects as intelligence officer, has been assigned as Turkey's new Police Intelligence Bureau Chief.

Tahir Canan, an inmate who spent the past 33 years in prison in Turkey, has been released this morning after the implementation of new judicial reforms - publicly known as 4th judicial package.

Istanbul's governor and police commissioner held a joint press conference this afternoon, saying that Taksim Square will absolutely be shut down tomorrow and no May 1 demonstrators will be allowed in the area.

President Gül ratified two law proposals that amended several articles on Turkish Penal Code and Anti-Terror Act - a series of revisions publicly known as 4th Judicial Package.

According to data compiled by bianet, male violence left 14 women, 2 men and 1 infant dead; 16 women and teenager girls raped; 28 women harassed; and 25 women and teenager girls battered in March 2013.

After a prosecutor dropped charges against Adnan Oktar, a controversial religious figure, for “incitement to hatred and hostility", Oktar filed lawsuits against the applicants and their lawyers.