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71-year-old ill prisoner put in confinement after angiography
Grappling with several health issues, Yıldırım had received a report that solitary confinement was unsuitable for his health.
12 January 2024
csdestek.org website of association against sexual violence now available in Persian
The website csdestek.org, prepared by the Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence for the benefit of adults who have experienced sexual violence, is now available in the Persian language.
10 January 2024
Hikmet Adal
reports
No support to minority newspapers from Press Advertisement Institution in 2023
Since 2020, the Press Advertisement Institution began to leave the support it had consistently provided to minority newspapers for 8 years in a state of uncertainty. Ari Haddeler, the Editor-in-Chief of Nor Marmara, says, "Our situation is getting more difficult every day. It's becoming harder to survive. Unfortunately, we are on the brink of closure."
5 January 2024
Hikmet Adal
Tuğçe Yılmaz
reports
Boğaziçi University resistance left three years behind: 'We are standing up for an ideal'
On January 5, three years ago, faculty members at Boğaziçi University turned their backs on the appointed rector and the rectorate building, who was appointed by President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
5 January 2024
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Notaries invited to abandon witness practice for visually impaired on World Braille Day
The President of the Barrier-Free Access Association, Nurşen Korkmaz, called on all visually impaired citizens to send letters prepared in Braille alphabet to the Turkey Notary Association.
4 January 2024
154 workers, five of them child workers, killed on the job in December
Of those who died while working in December, five were child/young workers between the ages of 15-17. The Health and Safety Labor Watch listed the cases, stating, "This is the mission assigned to Turkey in the international division of labor. The children of poor families are employed as cheap labor."
4 January 2024
Evrim Kepenek
reports
Men killed 30 women in December
Men subjected at least 38 women to violence, abused five boys and girls, and harassed at least five women.
4 January 2024
Demirtaş dedicates his defense to his father
Selahattin Demirtaş who did not attend his father's funeral, preferring to mourn in his prison cell instead dedicated his continuing defense at the 48th session of the Kobani trial to his father. "There is a pure and unadulterated lie in this frame-up case," he said in today's hearing.
2 January 2024
Ferit Binzet
writes
Challenges persist in Adıyaman 10 months after quakes
Ten months after the earthquakes, Adıyaman, one of the provinces most heavily hit by the February earthquakes, continues to wrestle with fundamental issues such as water and healthcare accessibility, unemployment, and a shortage of labor.
29 December 2023
Ferit Binzet
Can Atalay's message from prison: 'It's a historical responsibility to take a joint stance'
"There is a state crisis, and resolving this state crisis is the responsibility of everyone who feels responsibility towards the country, both the ruling party and the opposition," said the imprisoned MP.
29 December 2023
İstanbul Bar files complaint against court panel not implementing AYM decision for Atalay
In its application to the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors, the Bar Association requested an investigation into the president and members of the İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court for the newly constituted crimes of "abuse of power" and "deprivation of liberty."
28 December 2023
bianet's women-LGBTI+ editor Kepenek faces legal action over earthquake-related post
Journalist Evrim Kepenek, who shared information about the gendarmerie seizing aid gathered in Maraş Pazarcık after the earthquake, will face trial with a potential prison sentence ranging from 1 to 3 years. 24 journalists have been subjected to judicial harrassment in a year in the scope of the new article 217/A of the criminal code related to "spreading misleading information to the public."
28 December 2023
Hikmet Adal
İHD İstanbul calls for perpetrators of Roboski Massacre to be brought to justice
Twelve years ago today, in Roboski, 34 civilians, 19 of whom were children, were killed along with their mules as they returned from cross-border trade forced upon them to make a living, bombed by warplanes belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces. "The aftermath of the massacre is being covered with the armor of impunity," said the Human Rights Association İstanbul branch in a statement issued today.
28 December 2023
Constitutional Court releases reasoning, Can Atalay's lawyers petition the court
Constitutional Court has released the reasoning for its second violation decision regarding Hatay MP Can Atalay, published in the Official Gazette today. "A decision can no longer be awaited," stated Atalay's lawyers in the petition submitted to the İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court.
27 December 2023
Education union reacts to naming of school after 'torturer'
The Education and Science Employees' Union (Eğitim Sen), İzmir Branch No. 5, released a statement regarding the change of the name of a school in Buca to "Martyr Esat Oktay Yıldıran Primary School."
26 December 2023
Second censorship for Ekşi Sözlük in 10 days
The Information Technologies and Communication Authority blocked access to Ekşi Sözlük, one of the largest online communities in Turkey, which is under investigation for posts related to the loss of 12 soldiers in North Iraq.
25 December 2023
Ayşegül Doğan: 'All press cards are under the control of Directorate of Communication'
DEM Party Spokesperson, Şırnak Deputy, and also a journalist, Ayşegül Doğan spoke about the budget of the Directorate of Communication in the parliament and criticized the statement of the Minister of Justice, who claimed that there were no imprisoned journalists in Turkey.
22 December 2023
Ruken Tuncel
reports
'Can Atalay's friends' keep vigil in courthouse until release order is issued for the MP
According to the information provided by the court clerk to Can Atalay's lawyers, the panel will wait for the reasoned decision of the Constitutional Court. Lawyer Özgür Urfa stated, "We will not leave the courthouse until we receive the release order."
22 December 2023
Ruken Tuncel
CHP leader on AYM's Atalay ruling: 'Resisting the decision is to disregard the legal order'
CHP Chairperson Özgür Özel, stated that Can Atalay, against whom the Constitutional Court has issued a violation decision for the second time, should be released as soon as possible: "Resisting this decision is to disregard the constitutional legal order. We will continue to defend justice and the law."
21 December 2023
AYM unanimously calls for the implementation of its decision on imprisoned MP
"It has been decided, with 3 dissenting votes and by a majority, that the right to be elected and engage in political activities guaranteed by Article 67 of the Constitution, as well as the right to personal liberty and security guaranteed by Article 19, has been violated," the Constitutional Court stated in the "violation decision" for Can Atalay.
21 December 2023
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DEM Party reacts to voter registration shifts as local elections approach
"You opened the door to unprecedented unlawfulness by increasing the number of voters from five in a single household in İdil to 1450, adding 743 voters to an address belonging to the Police Department in Iğdır," wrote Dem Party Co-Chairperson Tuncer Bakırhan in a post.
21 December 2023
Reaction from the Circassians to the 'sword residue' remarks of Sheikh Said's grandson
The Federation of Caucasian Associations accused Mehmet Kasım Fırat of generating hate speech and engaging in discrimination. The North Caucasus Culture and Solidarity Association in Eskişehir also claimed that Fırat's statements showed great disrespect to the histories of Caucasian and Balkan immigrant communities.
20 December 2023
Ill prisoner İsmail Hakkı Tursun's release delayed for third time
Among the reasons for delaying Tursun's release are disciplinary punishments due to his participation in hunger strikes.
20 December 2023
All defendants acquitted in 1995 Ümraniye Prison massacre case
Tweny-three political prisoners were killed and hundreds of others when the police raided İstanbul’s Ümraniye Prison.
20 December 2023
DEM Party MP urges urgent inquiry into hunger-striking prisoner's plight
Due to the hunger strike, Hüseyin Karaoğlan's weight has dropped from 70 kilograms to 45 kilograms, MP Serhat Eren has emphasized.
20 December 2023
'Journalists have been targeted with the Disinformation Law'
Erol Önderoğlu from RSF stated that the space accessible to the international press mission within the government has narrowed in recent years. Özgür Öğret from CPJ, on the other hand, remarked, "The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey may have reached the lowest level in recent years. However, Turkey still ranks among the worst countries for press freedom."
20 December 2023
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Rights advocate Celalettin Can released from prison after 110 days
"Today, I have regained my freedom, but there is a sense of bitterness. The reason is that I am leaving behind hundreds of friends in Marmara Prison, unfairly and unlawfully held there," Can said upon his release.
20 December 2023
Vecih Cuzdan
Tuğçe Yılmaz
reports
Syriac MP George Aslan: 'Syriac language is a language of this land'
DEM Party Member of Parliament George Aslan, who celebrated Christmas in Syriac language in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and faced interference from members of the İYİ Party, described the incident as "primitive."
19 December 2023
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Syriac MP verbally harassed in parliament for extending Christmas greetings in mother tongue
Georger Aslan, the sole Christian MP in the parliament, faced harassment from ultranationalist MPs, who asked for a translation of his remarks.
19 December 2023
Evrim Kepenek's
interview
His wife wants everyone to join her in asking what the criminal act of Tayfun Kahraman is
Meriç Demir Kahraman, who has been fighting for the release of her husband Tayfun Kahraman, an urban planner, a Gezi Park case convict sentenced to 18 years and imprisoned for 602 days now, says, "You are speaking to a large part of the country from behind the glass, and you cannot make your voice heard. A reality is happening here. How can this be ignored?"
18 December 2023
Evrim Kepenek
Supreme Court finds violation in preventing May Day celebrations in Taksim Square
In the decision by the Constitutional Court, it was stated that "Taksim holds a symbolic value for certain segments of society, especially unions and workers, due to the events in 1977 that resulted in the death of 34 people."
15 December 2023
Journalists' Association condemns journalist & columnist of government-affiliated newspaper
The Journalists' Association stated that Halit Turan's article titled "Delegation Market in CHP! İmamoglu opened the purse strings: The bribery wheel starts from 500,000 lira" and Mahmut Övür's column titled "Conscience and Wallet Reckoning in CHP İstanbul" were presented to the readers without evidence and with the perception that there was a factual basis.
14 December 2023
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