The child subjected to abuse by a staff member while interning in the parliament said that she was threatened and intimidated into not sharing the issue with her family.

The workshop addressed how national freedom of information laws can be effectively utilized by journalists in investigative reporting.

One staff member has been suspended from duty as a family accuses parliament staff of "systematic abuse."

Yaman, a 31-year-old who has lived in Lebanon and Turkey since 2012, is one of the many Syrians contemplating returning home a year after the regime change.

Ersoy's detention comes days after similar incidents involving other TV anchors.

“In a period when peace discussions are back on the agenda in the country, I am being accused of ‘aiding’ and ‘being a member’ of an organization that dissolved itself and laid down arms. Isn't this a clear irony?” bianet editor Tuğçe Yılmaz said in her defense.

The court has concluded that Avcı acted out of necessity to defend her life and dropped the charge of "intentional killing."

"As an artist who has sung the songs of oppressed peoples for years, I have faced an unacceptable result. We do not accept it, and we will appeal," Aydınlar said after her trial.

Some 23,000 workers were paid only their bare wage for November and say their social rights payments haven't been made for four months.

The project are for the mine overlaps with parts of the Hûsika village, its water reservoir and cemetery.

Twenty-two couriers demand the removal of the Sunday work obligation and improvements in wages and working conditions.

AA journalists reportedly attempted to show their press cards to officers but were "harshly removed" from the scene.