Mehmet Halis Iş

Mehmet Halis Iş

Turkey Pledges to Help Syria's Assyrians

Turkey Pledges to Help Syria's Assyrians

AKP Interim Chairperson Numan Kurtulmuş received representatives from Turkey's major Assyrian Christian associations on the matter of improving the living conditions of roughly 400 Assyrian Christians who fled from the civil war in Syria.

25 February 2013

On Trial for Complying with Medical Ethics

On Trial for Complying with Medical Ethics

Physician Mulamahmutoğlu from the Midyat State Hospital is on trial after he refused to examine a convict in the presence of a gendarmerie officer because of patient privacy. The doctor allegedly violated the "Tripartite Protocol".

Six-Month Sentence for Speaking Kurdish in Election Campaign

Six-Month Sentence for Speaking Kurdish in Election Campaign

Three members of the dissolved pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party received prison sentences of six months each by the Midyat Magistrate Criminal Court in south-eastern Turkey. The three defendants were found guilty of making election propaganda in Kurdish.