Black Lives Matter

On the night of June 23, moments after the first exit polls signaled Ekrem Imamoglu's electoral triumph in the controversial mayoral rerun, Istanbul went through a moment of rare release.

"I can't breathe" were the final words of a Washington Post columnist who was killed at the hands of Saudi agents in Riyadh's Istanbul consulate, according to a report released on Dec. 9.

Four police officers, including a commissary, have been suspended for beating and pointing a gun at an attorney in Istanbul. 

Lawyers in Thessaloniki will be abstaining from all court appearances today in protest at an alleged assault by a police officer against a colleague.

Lawyers in the northern port city claim that during a trial on July 29, a police officer grabbed a female lawyer by the arm and dragged her across the courtroom.

The 46-year-old police officer who shot himself after killing his 3-year-old daughter, his wife and his mother-in-law on Monday kneeled or stood in front of the child's bed for at least an hour before ending his own life, a coroner has found.

The United States has never been more divided in its recent history after Donald Trump was elected to office. The rhetoric often used by both political sides exceeds the extremes. Identity politics to advance one’s political views has become commonplace in debates across all media platforms, be it on TV or in print media via opinion pieces.

Over 30 people were injured and three died during the collisions of the far-right and anti-racism in the US city of Charlottesville, Virginia, the BTA reported.

Stanford University, one of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, has reportedly accepted the application of a Muslim teenager whose application included the repition of the slogan “blacklivesmatter” exactly 100 times.

Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, woke up to a state of emergency and the National Guard and State Highway Patrol deployed to their city on Sept. 22 after a second night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of an African-American man. 

The U.S. city of Cleveland has reached a $6 million settlement with the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American shot by police while holding a toy gun.
 
Under the terms of the settlement, Cleveland does not admit any wrongdoing, according to details of the accord announced April 25 by a U.S. District Court in Ohio.