Stating that intervention in the bar associations and professional chambers will harm the essence of the right to defense, Mustafa Karadağ, the former President of the Judges' Union, said the government aims to create its own bar associations.
It has been disclosed that police used violence against an 8-year-old child in the Bismil, in the province of Diyarbakır.
Feminist researcher Hülya Osmanağaoğlu, who stated that the increasing hate speech and attacks are directly related to the politics followed by the government, said that the paramilitary forces are mobilized.
An explosion occurred on the road of Rajo in Afrin. First news reported dead and injured in the explosion.
The death toll from coronavirus in Turkey reached 3,952, while the number of confirmed cases is 143,114.
The HDP has filed criminal complaints for the destruction of cemeteries by Turkish security forces in Turkey's Kurdish provinces.
Women's organisations are protesting against the Turkish government's draft law that would allow rapists who marry their underage victims to go unpunished.
The HDP Labour Commission which issued a written statement for the 6th year anniversary of Soma Massacre, said: "Soma case's currently convicted perpetrators were rewarded with the new law on execution which was enacted as an amnesty for the AKP supporters and cleared the way for Soma defendants.
Arrested since February 17, 2020, writer and former MP Mahmut Alınak had his first hearing today (May 13). Alınak has been released in his first hearing. The release of Mahmut Alınak has been shared with the public by lawyer Bişar Abdi Alınak, the son of Mahmut Alınak.
Gazi University announced that Dean Orhan Acar, who caused a reaction with his sexist discourses, resigned and an investigation was launched against him.
The Confederation of Public Workers Trade Unions (KESK) Executive Board issued a written statement today to mark the 6th anniversary of the Soma Massacre.
Sercan Aran, one of the lawyers in the Soma case, stated that the defendants will serve 6 days in prison per worker that died in Soma for 6 days after the new law on execution.
In what is clearly a heavy harassment and violation of the right to life, ill prisoner Kaya was taken to hospital once again, after suffering intestinal bleeding in prison.
Writer Bahattin Robar, drawing attention to the fact that claiming the language only on the May 15 Kurdish Language Day will not be enough to eliminate assimilation, said: "Language is the soul of a person. If you drift away from your mother tongue, you'll drift away from your soul. Let's not drift away from our soul and kill our body."
HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay who referred to the police chasing the children and firing his gun into the air in Nusaybin as the reflection of the kostility towards Kurds on the street, reminding of the similar cases in the history, said the government provides the police with an armour of impunity.