A new draft of the conclusions for the upcoming European Council includes references to the readiness of the EU to play an ‘active role’ with ‘all appropriate means at its disposal’ in the process to solve the Cyprus Problem, the Cyprus News Agency le…

Shortly before his detention, the journalist told bianet that “I did not praise Öcalan but cricitized the AKP’s hypocrisy.” Merdan Yanardag, a well-known journalist in Turkey, has been detained in an investigation into his remarks about the leader of t…

The march, banned on the pretext of ‘protecting public morality’, led to the apprehension of at least 50 people. A group in the coastal city of Izmir defied the ban imposed by the local governorate on the 11th Pride Week activities and gathered yesterd…