The Peace Foundation's recent workshop in Istanbul stressed the need for a legal basis for disarmament efforts and urged improvements to Abdullah Öcalan's prison conditions to advance the peace process.
According to RSF's "World Press Freedom Index", Turkey has been ranked in the "very serious" category.
Amed Bar Association Executive Board member Hasan Kendal Selçuk said that Turkey is obliged to comply with the ECtHR’s judgement on Abdullah Öcalan’s violation of the right to hope due to international conventions and constitutional provisions.
The May Day Istanbul rally, attended by thousands of people, ended with demands for equal, free and democratic life.
34 parties and organisations in North and East Syria called for an end to the clashes in Damascus countryside and said, "eapons bring nothing but destruction and bloodshed."
Speaking in Wan, DBP Co-Chair Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar stated that a democratic society cannot be established without workers and said: "It is time to unite our voices and struggle and establish a democratic country."
May Day celebrated in Shengal and Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's words "Labour is freedom" were reminded.
Speaking at the May Day celebration in Wan with the participation of thousands of workers, Abdullah Zeydan stated that a new hope was born with Öcalan's call. KESK member Döne Gevher Koyun said, "Laws must be passed for peace and democracy and this war process must end."
Peoples of North and East Syria celebrating May Day.
More than 200 people, including ESP Cp-chair Murat Çepni, were detained in Istanbul.
Speaking at the May Day cortege in Kadıköy, DEM Party Co-chair Tülay Hatimoğulları said, "It should be known that the contribution to the solution of the Kurdish question will be an increase in our wages, an increase in our food."
Journalist Umit Ozdal, who lost his life in the hospital where he was being treated, was buried.
The mass gathered in mecidiyeköy is resisting to go to Taksim despite the police attack.
DEM Party's Saruhan Oluç said that everyone who visited Sırrı Süreyya Önder mentioned his endeavour for peace and stated that this situation reveals that different circles of the society want peace and solution.
IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin stated that all parties in the parliament should put the “right to hope” on their agenda and said, “Turkey’s implementation of the right to hope is not a favour but a duty.”