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Blocked in turkey, online encyclopedia Wikipedia has launched a campaign with the hashtag #WeMissTurkey: “What would you do if you woke up and couldn’t access Wikipedia?”

Peace and Democracy Party deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder announced this evening that Kurdish deputies postponed their campaign in Northern Turkey to promote dialogue and peace in the Imrali process to an indefinite time.

Signatures for Roboski, a campaign that dance choreographer and artist Zeynep Tanbay initiated on November 30 for pressuring the government to make a formal apology on the death of 34 Kurdish citizens in an air strike last year, has received wide national recognition including several intellectuals in Turkey.

The Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch Prisons Commission launched a campaign for the closure of F type prisons due to unhealthy conditions and rights violations. The list of prohibitions for convicts of aggravated life sentences is long.

"Raise your voice" was one of the topics of the campaign against hate crimes by the Association for Social Change and the SayStop Initiative. The beginning of the campaign was marked by a symposium in Istanbul. Main aims are a draft bill and raising public awareness.