HDP deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü told bianet that scores of people crossed the border for solidarity as ISIS attacks intensified in Kobane.

A group of pedestrians from Turkey protested President Erdoğan in the streets of New York City during his last day of trip for 69th Session of UN General Assembly. A quarrel took place as Erdoğan’s guards pushed away protestors and NYC police attempted to detain the guards.

Media professional organizations Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and DİSK-affiliated Basın-İş condemned the intervention of police forces to media workers in Suruç and Kobane.

HDP’s Urfa province deputy İbrahim Ayhan told bianet that their request to make a joint aid campaign with the local governor’s office officials and AFAD has been rejected, saying that their is an urgent need for food and tents.

Various artists including Şevval Sam, Engin Günaydın, and Meltem Cumbul took part in a video project to call for solidarity with Ezidi people who ran away from their homes to Turkey.

Meeting with his attorney Mazlum Dinç yesterday on Imrali Island, PKK leader gave the following message: “Regarding the attacks on ISIS, all Kurds must adapt themselves to the conditions of this highly intense war”.

Could Kurdish voices become part of the political mainstream in Turkey; and could the PKK have its status as “terrorist” removed?

Some of the Ezidi refugees are moving to the villages in the southeastern villages abandoned due to Turkish state violence during the 1990s. Maybe they will soon be permanent residents there.

Having run away from ISIS in Sinjar, Ezidi people found refuge in a intercity bus terminal in the southeastern province of Mardin. However, nobody yet knows where this journey will end.

PEN-International and Consulate of Sweden organized a joint panel discussion where changes in 12-year-long AKP power freedom of expression in Turkey were discussed. Schoulgin from PEN and two authors from Turkey debated about those issues.

Having interpreted the news on NSA’s spying Turkey and supplying information of the intelligence service, Tahir Elçi, lawyer of Roboski families, described spying as “scandal” and stated that it is a crime according to the domestic law and constitution.

bianet interviewed Sabiha Khalil from Syrian Women’s Network (SKA) before she left Turkey three months ago. We talked to her about Syria issue and conditions of refugees.

Hundreds of activists celebrated Turkey’s Peace Day yesterday in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district despite the governor’s office ban; urging authorities to pay attention to the situation of Ezidi people.

Human rights activist rallied in the southern province of Antep to show their support to the growing number of refugees from Syria. “Don’t touch my Syrian brother,” they shouted.

As the number of Ezidi refugees from Sinjar reached 20,000, HDP deputy Selma Irmak said the government support wasn’t enough.

How much do we know about a community whose number was initially around 500 and exceed 1000s after the new wave of migration from Iraq? How much do we know about Ezidi even if we don’t exactly know how to write their name? Amed Gökçen from Bilgi University explained to bianet.

Expressing the worries on the recent attacks on Syrian refugees, 14 NGOs released a statement, reminding that they were still under “temporary protection status” and the related regulations have yet to be made.

Anadolu Agency (AA) announced that they will broadcast Ferguson protests live. Having targeted many journalists during Gezi Resistence, AA had stated that broadcasting protests in the West is “their obligation.”

Intending to revive the tentative soul of Beat Generation, Neo-Beat made its last meeting in İstanbul. Next direction of the group is to Zeytinli Fest.

bianet interviewed journalist Nurgün Balcıoğlu located in the southern province of Antep regarding the rising of tensions after the killing of a landlord by a Syrian tenant. She draws attention to two aspects of the problem: rising population of unemployed youth and exploitation of cheap labour.