Architects and Engineers Chambers Union of Turkey’s Chemical Engineers Chamber listed the hazardous effects of pepper gas, saying that pepper gas bombs and bullets used by police forces took part in chemical weapon category.

According to a statement released by Turkish Doctors Union, the police violence against Gezi Park protestors across 13 cities left 4,785 injured with 48 in critical condition, and 3 dead including 1 police officer.

Bill Proposal on the Preservation of Nature and Biological Diversity - a draft law that was expected to be discussed by the parliament - has been suspended after Gezi Park resistance.

Thousands of people bid adieu to Abdullah Cömert, a Gezi Park resistance demonstrator who was killed in Hatay Resistance. Following the ceremony, police attacked the funeral crowd with pepper gas.

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Taksim Dayanışması, a solidarity group, reiterated its position against the construction in Taksim Gezi Park, claiming that the City Preservation Council requested stakeholder municipalities to investigate the legal grounds of the ongoing construction.

Police and dozers have left Taksim Gezi Park, as BDP deputy Sırrı Sureyya Önder and CHP Party Assembly member Gülseren Onanç arrived to the construction area demanding proper deconstruction licenses.

Serdar Gültekin from Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) told bianet that children inmates in Şakran Prison were subjected to hone beatings, solitary confinement penalties in sound proof cells, while a prison staff member claimed that the facility had “10 star” hotel comfort.

Family and Social Policies Ministry released a booklet that contained tips for couples on a healthy sex life.

Burial ceremonies are currently being held for the 34 twin blast victims in Reyhanlı district. Officials are working on to identify the rest of the casualties. 51 are still being hospitalized.

An autistic children association chairperson's remarks on autistic children being atheist enraged families and caregivers across Turkey.

An explosion in Akdizgin, a village of Şırnak province in the southeastern Turkey, left Ramazan Yıldız (11) dead - an incident allegedly caused by military equipment.

Locals in Artvin province remain critical towards the opening of water sources to mining. Green Artvin Association Chair reminded that a local court now rejected a license ban verdict that it had previously ordered.

According to a recent report released by Turkey's main statistics institute, there are currently 893,000 child workers with half of them not going to any school in Turkey.

Roughly a thousand people assembled in downtown Istanbul on Saturday to commemorate the Kızıldere Massacre on its 41st anniversary with their slogan "The history of resistance and solidarity is our honor".

Turkey's Public Inspection Institution is now accepting first ombudsperson complaints at governor offices across the country.

Turkey's intellectuals, artists, academicians and activists signed a manifesto released by Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University and Stiftung Mercator Initiative to raise public awareness on climate change.

Local business owners, lawyers, politicians of Şemdinli - a far southeastern district where PKK launched its armed campaign in 1984 - spoke up to bianet and expressed their full support on the ongoing peace process.

A local administrator in Çanakkale province filed an official compliant claiming that a gold drill in the Ida mountain region polluted neighboring rivers and killed water frogs.

Mothers, teachers, NGO representatives and politicians from Şarköy, a district located in the northwestern Turkey, agreed that the 30-years long bloody conflict must end immediately, reminding that Kurdish and Turkish people co-existed somewhat for centuries.