Gökçek's body arrived in Kayseri
Grup Yorum member İbrahim Gökçek's body arrived in Kayseri. The family announced that the burial will take place in the morning.
Gökçek's body brought to Kayseri with police escort
The farewell ceremony organised today for socialist music band Grup Yorum member İbrahim Gökçek, who died after a 323-day death fast against the repression of the left-wing music band, has witnessed brutal crackdown by the police in Istanbul.
District health authority imposes mandatory mask use in Taksim Square and İstiklal Street
İstanbul's cosmopolitan quarter has become increasingly more crowded amid a drop in daily new Covid-19 cases.
New application from the lawyers and families for İmralı
The families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in İmralı applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to visit their imprisoned family members.
Joint call from 393 women: Eliminate inequality in the new law on execution
393 rights defenders have shared nine demands with the public so that the right to life and health of arrested and convicted people can be safeguarded in prisons of Turkey amid coronavirus pandemic.
Police intervention to Grup Yorum fans
Police intervened to the Grup Yorum fans who gathered in Gazi District for İbrahim Gökçek's funeral. 4 people were detained.
Işık: We need Öcalan's analysis
HDP Mus Deputy Mensur Işık, who has been a lawyer for PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan for many years, said: "The rulers are looking for a healthy way out and they can not find it. Öcalan's analysis are needed.
Court accepts indictment about journalists over news on MIT Officers
The indictment issued against journalists for reporting on the funeral of an intelligence officer killed in Libya demands penalization as per the Article 329/1 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) and Article 27 of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) law.
Turkey cuts water supply to Hesekê for the 6th time
Turkey cut water supplies in Hesekê for the 6th time at a time where the coronavirus pandemic poses lives at risk.
Police prevents march for İbrahim Gökçek
A march to pay tribute to Grup Yorum Ibrahim Gökçek, who died on Thursday, was organised in the neighborhood of Gazi in Istanbul but was stopped by police.
Dismissal decision of Co-Mayors extended
The Turkish state decided to extend the bans systematically and this time extended the "dismissal" decisions it made about Cizre and İdil municipal co-mayors and city council members.
DTK condemns upholding of sentence against Selma Irmak
The DTK condemned the upholding by the Supreme Court of the sentence of former co-chair Selma Irmak. "The struggle of the Democratic Society Congress will continue until the freedom problem of our people is resolved."
Coronavirus claimed 57 more lives
Another 57 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey while 1,977 more cases have been detected and 4,782 people have recovered during the past 24 hours.
HDK calls to Supreme Court for impartiality
Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Executive Board released a written statement regarding the law on criminal enforcement today (May 7).
Mızraklı's 200 days in prison: I never feel regret
Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı, who has been dismissed and a trustee was appointed for his place has been in prison for 200 days. In his lettere sent a letter for the public for the 200th day in prison, the elected Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır people wrote: "If they ask me do you have any regret due to being imprisoned, I would say: 'Never'."
Union of Public Health: Measures inadequate, work overloaded
Trade Union of Employees in Public Health and Social Services (SES) General Directorate Gönül Erden, Central Board members Pınar İçel and Aylin Akçay shared the survey result on personal protective equipments and measures in Turkey's national health service institutions.
HDP Women's Assembly: Let us not be a part of this crime
HDP Women's Assembly Spokesperson Ayşe Acar Başaran protested the attacks on the graves and called for not to be a part of this crime.
İbrahim Gökçek lost his life
The Grup Yorum member artist İbrahim Gökçek, who had just puased his death fast on the 323th day lost his life at the hospital he was medically threated.
Seriously ill prisoner Kaya: I can't hold on anymore
Seriously ill prisoner Sabri Kaya called his family and said: "I can't hold on to life anymore'.
HDP: We will always remember the pioneer spirit of Deniz and his friends
HDP MYK, commemorating the revolutionary leaders of Turkish youth movement on the 48th anniversary of their execution, said: "We will always remember their pioneer spirit and the joint struggle of the peoples they pointed at as a precedent."
Joint declaration demands the government to keep "hands off Kars"
In a joint declaration 122 democratic institutions, associations, platforms and political parties in Turkey said they won't tolerate the restriction of the powers of local opposition governments and threats to be appointed trustees.
Dr. Abbasoğlu: Health of workers left to the mercy of bosses
Noting the situation of workers who had to work in mines, construction, factories and workshops despite the risk of coronavirus, Dr. Sedat Abbasoğlu said: "The health of workers during the Covid- 19 outbreak is left to the mercy of the bosses.
Prison sentence decision against Selma Irmak approved
The Supreme Court upheld the 7-year and 6-month prison sentence given to Selma Irmak, who was the Co-Chair of DTK, arguing that the DTK was identical with KCK.
Digital violence against women increases during COVID-19
The We Will Stop Women Murders Platform (KCDP) and the Women's Assemblies said that the number of women who applied for support denouncing the violence they were exposed to has increased in April.
13 Bar Associations demand Law of Execution to be canceled
13 bar associations said that the regulation in the Law of Execution goes against the principle of equality of the Constitution and asked the Constitutional Court to cancel it.
ISIS attack in Maxmur
ISIS mercenaries attacked Iraqi soldiers near Maxmur, in the province of Mosul, South Kurdistan.
Life loss in TUrkey increases to 3 thousand 520
According to the latest figures, 59 people have died of coronavirus in the past 24 hours in Turkey.
2019 Report by Human Rights Association: 440 violations of right to life in 2019
İHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan announced that there had been 440 violations of right to life, 447 torture and ill-treatment cases in 2019. Türkdoğan defined the year in question as "a year when the regime became increasingly authoritarian and the official ideology tried to be fully implemented".
Cancer patient prisoner: Hear my voice
Cancer and tuberculosis patient Mehmet Salih Filiz, a prisoner in Ödemiş Prison, stating that he has been detoriorating, made a call and said 'Please hear my voice'.
İHD prison report: Oppressive methods on the rise
IHD reported that oppressive practices incompatible with human dignity have increased in prisons in the last 4 months.
Lawyer Ebru Timtik on death fast loses 25 kilos
Ebru Timtik, one of the deaths fasting lawyers with the ÇHD is reported to have lost 25 kilos and that her muscle spasms intensified.
HDP meets with diplomatic representatives of 18 countries
HDP Foreign Relations Commission Spokesperson and Amed Deputy Hişyar Özsoy held a video conference on 4 May with ambassadors from 18 countries.
Court ruled for continuation of arrest for the journalists
In examining the objections of six journalists behind bars due to their news on the funeral of an intelligence officer, the court apparently did not inform their attorneys, summoned other lawyers from the bar and ruled for the continuation of their pre-trial detention.
İbrahim Gökçek ended the death fast
Grup Yorum member İbrahim Gökçek who had been death fasting for 323 days, have ended his action.
MA went to the peshmerga point in Zînî Wertê
While there were no measures taken against coronavirus in Zînî Wertê where peshmerga forces were deployed due to coronavirus, a peshmerga commander words, saying "What would a doctor do here" sums up the purpose. It is enough to say hi to pass the check point.
Airstrike from Israel to Aleppo
It is stated that the warplanes allegedly belonging to Israel bombed the Scientific Research Center in Aleppo.
5 people arrested in Van
Of the 15 people who were detained in Van province three days ago, 5 have been remanded in custody.
51 bodies recovered from a mass grave in Raqqa
Bodies of 51 people murdered by ISIS have been unearthed from a mass grave in Raqqa.
Turkey: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 3,461
Another 64 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 1,614 more cases have been diagnosed and 5,015 people have recovered during the past 24 hours.
HDP MPs visits İbrahim Gökçek of Grup Yorum
HDP MPs visited the musician Ibrahim Gökçek who is on death fast in Istanbul and called on the public to show solidarity. The bassist of Grup Yorum has been refusing to eat for months.
Prisoners start hunger strike in solidarity with İbrahim Gökçek
15 prisoners from Kırıkkale Type F Closed prison started a 3 day hunger strike in solidarity with Grup Yorum.
HDP and İHD met with Osmaniye Prison administration
A delegation made up of HDP and IHD met with Osmaniye T Type Prison officials and prisoners there. The delegation stated that they conveyed the problems of the prisoners to the prison administration.
HDP: Turkish state should apologize from the Dersim people
The state should apologize to the families of the people of Dersim on the basis of acknowledging the truth, said co-chair of the HDP Peoples and Beliefs Commission.
Müftüoğlu: New political actors should come forward
Academician Özgür Müftüoğlu, stating that these days of coronavirus are presenting new opportunities for the labourers, said new political actors should come forward and barbarianism might take over if we can not strive together.
DTK: Face the Dersim Massacre
DTK made a written statement regarding the massacre in Dersim and said: "What happened in Dersim was a crime against humanity. We call on to the government to face the fact that it was a massacre."
They removed the gravestone so that the soldiers did not destroy it
Naide Çamak, stating that they removed the headstone of his brother Zamani Çamak so that the soldiers did not destroy it, said: "Attacking gravestones does not have any legal, humanitarian or moral explanation. It is torture."
Annual Inflation Rate Increases by 10,94 Percent
The inflation rate has risen by 0.85 percent compared to the same month last year.
Sevgül Koçak: He taught me how to stand tall
Stating that her brother Mustafa who lost his life on the 297th day of the death fast is a 'symbol of justice', Sevgül Koçak said: "Mustafa taught the people how to stand tall against injustice".
Turkey: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 3,397
According to official figures, 3,397 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 126,045 cases have been recorded in total.
Women journalists from MKGP: The more they imprison, the more we resist for freedom
Mezopotamya Women Journalists Platform (MKGP) declared that many journalists welcomed May 3-World Press Freedom Day as prisoners as they state: "We know, we will be on the fields again, we will meet again in the news and the more they imprison, the more we will resist for freedom."