Violence against LGBT people

The Pride (week) starts on September 10 with various events - exhibitions, concerts, theater performances, film screenings. It will be completed with the Pride Parade that will take place under the slogan "Say YES."

Iraqis vote on May 12 in the first parliamentary election since the country declared victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Police detained nine ISIL suspects during an anti-terror operation in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on May 1, according to a police source.

A woman judge in Istanbul has voiced her opposition to a local court ruling that sentenced a woman to eight years and nine months in prison for killing her fiancée after she stabbed him with a knife in self-defense. 

A Baghdad court on April 2 sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a judicial source said.

A gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fired shots and took hostages at a supermarket in Trebes in southwestern France on March 23, a local prosecutor said.

Another Kosovo man has been killed in Syria, while fighting alongside the terrorist organisation of ISIS (ISIL, Islamic State), gazetaexpress.com reports.

The killed jihadist is Betim Ibrahimaj from the municipality of Istok. The news has been confirmed by his wife who is also in Syria. She informed members of the Ibrahimaj family, that their son Betim has been killed.

Turkey’s Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Feb. 13 attended a ministerial meeting in Rome of the global coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Iraq seeks around $100 billion in foreign investment in transport, energy and agriculture as part of a plan to rebuild parts of the country and revive the economy after a three-year war on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The only surviving member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 refused to rise for a Belgian court on Monday, or answer questions about his actions, during his first appearance in public since his arrest nearly two years ago.