The Turkish Parliament made access to the LGBT sites of KaosGL and LambdaIstanbul more difficult. Due to the "family package" of the new internet filter, access is only admitted after filling in an online form and disclosing personal data.

Three people died in the course of an explosion that occurred in a minibus in Ankara on Tuesday. 34 people were wounded.

Tensions between Turkey and Southern Cyprus are fuelled by the dispute about oil and gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean. Dr. Cengiz Aktar from Bahçeşehir University evaluated the situation for bianet, including its legal and political background and its future potential.

25 workers who protested against an unlawful tender at the Çukurova University Balcalı Hospital are facing imprisonment of 27 years each. They were violently taken into police custody on 22 August. Among the defendants are also union executives.

The lawyers of the Dink family left the court room in protest because the prosecutor was about to present his final plea before all evidence had been collected. The prosecutor demanded two life sentences and two acquittals.

The 200th day of journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in prison was marked by a demonstration of the group "Fellow Journalists of Ahmet and Nedim". They stated that the indictment proved the fact that Şık and Şener were jailed because of their journalistic activities.

After a ten-day hunger strike, conscientious objector İnan Süver decided to turn his strike into a death fast. His reasons: oppressions experienced at the Balıkesir Prison and the dismissal of his requests for his transfer to a different cell.

The police in Şırnak raided buildings of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party and private homes. 55 people were taken into police custody, including party executives. Co-Chair Demirtaş said the operations were aimed at the elimination of the party.

Turkish Human Rights Foundation President Fincanı and Gerçek Gündem website executive Yarkadaş were acquitted of charges of insult. They were sued by Prof. Birgen, Chair of the Institute for Forensic Medicine 3rd Specialization Chamber.

A bomb thrown to a shuttle of the Police Vocational School in Diyarbakır left four policemen injured. A noise bomb placed in a bus in Istanbul was brought to explosion by the bus driver at the side of the road. Nobody was wounded.

The number of women murders in Turkey increased by 1,400 percent within seven years. As far as divorce cases are concerned, 85 percent of all applications in Istanbul are related to violence.

Former Chief of Police Ağar was sentenced to imprisonment of five years on charges of "establishing an armed organization to commit crimes". After the approval of the Court of Appeals and the usual reductions, Ağar will be in jail for three years and nine months.

The 8th hearing of the case regarding the Union of Kurdistan Communities tried in Mardin was once more stuck because of the Kurdish language used for the defendants' defence speeches.

Minister of the Interior Şahin declared that a date for cross-border ground operations was not going to be fixed. "Operations can be carried out any time and an evaluation of the topic is still being continued", Şahin announced.

Students from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara are facing up to 10.5 years behind bars. They are tried on the grounds of their protest action in January labelled "We are revolting".

Turkey and the USA signed a memorandum on the NATO Missile Defence on 14 September. A radar system will be deployed in Malatya. Russia expressed its discontent with the deal.

In the course of a police operation in Mersin, ten members of the Peace and Democracy Party were taken into custody, among them provincial executives, a member of parliament and members of the municipality council.

Three soldiers died under suspicious circumstances in Bitlis, Maraş and Kars within five days. Human Rights Association President Türkdoğan called on the parliament to investigate the deaths that were apparently caused by stray bullets.

Sabah newspaper columnist Uluç is to pay TL 20,000 in compensation for his article about deceased TV host Defne Joy Foster. President Judge Göçer emphasized the discriminative language of the writing.

Voice records emerged in the internet that allegedly feature talks between members of the National Intelligence Agency and of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party held during the negotiation period.