After a series of rushed expropriations for Kolin Fossil Fuel Plant which is planned to be built Yırca village of Soma, a stay of execution for Environmental Impact Assessment is in order.

Republican People’s Party deputy Melda Onur as well as environment activists reacted the chopping of 158 trees within a crossroads construction in the northwestern province of Yalova.

A political note drafted by various children organizations cited that even though child abuse could be preventible, the research in Turkey didn’t focus on the issues like its frequency, prevention and treatment.

Defendants charged with wearing construction helmets, diving goggles, gas masks and eye solutions during May Day protests this years have been acquitted as their acts “didn’t constitute a crime”.

Turkey’s Human Rights Association released a statement on Universal Children’s Day, underlining the significance of closing juvenile prisons, child labor, child abuse and other right violations.

Villagers from the western district of Soma planted new olive trees after a thermic power plant construction left thousands of trees cut. The event was supported by local chamber of agriculture engineers.

Two minors stood trial for the second hearing of a case for charges related to opening a banner on January 24 that said “We want the school record card of Berkin Elvan”.

As efforts to save 18 miners who are still trapped in a mine located in the central district of Ermenek, the waiting of family members and coworkers continue.

Police reportedly attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets those activists who assembled in order to stop a mosque construction in the entrance of Istanbul’s Validebağ Grove despite a court order.

According to a report by a children’s association, at least 12 children lost their lives within protests related to ISIS’s advance in Kobane. 55 children were arrested.

After being gravely injured by unknown assailants in Adana’s Seyhan district, Azadiya Welat newspaper distributor Kadri Bağdu lost his life yesterday - an incident that reminded many of Turkey’s unclaimed killings during the 1990s.

Council of State’s Administrative Case Chambers Board suspended the construction plans in the waterfront of Istanbul’s Salıpazarı area - a project publicly known as “Galataport”.

Hundreds of Istanbulites took the streets yesterday within “People’s Climate March” in order to remind the city dwellers on the UN Climate Summit 2014 on Wednesday in NYC.

Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court ordered members of soccer fan group çArşı to stand trial for charges related to “attempted coup” for their involvement of the Gezi Resistance.

Some was collecting pocket money for school, some saving to marry and most of them miles away from their family. Families of deceased workers bid their last goodbyes.

Following the death of 5 people in a dam reservoir in the southeastern province of Siirt, bianet contacted Cumhur Kılıççıoğlu, a local journalist, who claimed that at least 20 to 30 drowned since the dam reservoir was established.

Responding to the parliamentary question of Sezgin Tanrıkulu, parliamentarian of CHP (Republican’s People Party), the Ministry of Health provided information about alcohol consumption, alcoholic beverage taxes, and those receiving treatment because of using drugs and alcohol between 2012-2014 in Turkey.

According to the data of Turkish Statistical Institution (TUİK), approximately 275,000 children came or were brought to the security units in 2013. It is registered that 115,439 children were forced to commit a crime. This number proves that there is an increase by 14.5 percent a year.

Parking lot permit in Moda Gezi Garden issued by İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality was cancelled due to applications of Kadıköy Municipality. Neighborhood dwellers set up tents and watch in Moda Gezi Garden to resist against construction of parking lot.

Labor and Social Security Minister Faruk Çelik said that they only employed 1000 more workers within the disability quota. “This toll shocked us. They didn’t keep their promise,” activist Bestami Turhan told bianet.