Berkin Elvan

A trial against 35 individuals associated with Beşiktaş’s football fan group çArşı on charges of “attempting to overthrow the government” during last year’s Gezi Park protests has started at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse.

The group received massive support from a crowd that included main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies.

Brazilian caricaturist Carlos Latuff, who earned fame during the Arab Spring for his cartoons of Middle Eastern leaders, has confessed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has recently become his “muse” - a fact that he is burning to tell him personally.

Athens is bracing for a tense weekend after the Greek government banned protests during the two-day official visit of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, which coincides with commemorations for the 2008 murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6.

The hearing into the killing of Hasan Ferit Gedik, a leftist protester shot during a protest against drug dealers last year in Istanbul’s Gülsüyu neighborhood, has been canceled for a second time after the Court argued that the courtroom was not adequate enough to proceed with the trial.

Ali İsmail Korkmaz, the university student fatally beaten by plainclothes police and civilians during the Gezi protests in the central Anatolian province of Eskişehir last year, was commemorated on the anniversary of his death in his hometown Hatay.

An Istanbul criminal court has sought jail time for a group of May Day protesters who were detained during clashes with the police for the slogans they chanted.

At the 25th Ankara International Film Festival, the awards for best film, best actress, best actor and best actor in a supporting role were given to Atıl İnanç’s film “Daire” (Circle).

Turkish activists who helped launch mass anti-government protests last year will go on trial June 12 in what critics have said is a further attempt to crush dissenting voices.

Twenty-six members of Taksim Solidarity Platform, an umbrella group of civil society, union and political groups, face up to 29 years in prison for their part in the demonstrations that has rocked the country.

Two people died on Wednesday during protests across Turkey after the funeral of a boy wounded during anti-government clashes last year.

One demonstrator has died in clashes in Istanbul. The second victim is a police officer who is said to have had a heart attack while dealing with the unrest, as the BBC reports.