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Ahmet Türk: We face the same injustice as the one during September 12 coup
Kurdish politician Türk attended the Kobanî trial via video conference: “We have faced injustice in these processes. I went through September 12 [coup]. We are faced with the same injustice despite the 50 years that have passed since then.”
21 December 2021
Metin Lokumcu case | ‘Those who gave the order must be put on trial’
The trial over the death of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu as a result of the tear gas used by the police continued at the Trabzon 2nd High Criminal Court. Rights organizations and politicians addressed the public after the hearing.
21 December 2021
Evrim Kepenek
11 people face prison sentence for cutting trees to see Leander's Tower
The İstanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded up to 7 years in prison for 11 people, including two siblings who had the trees at a park cut because they were blocking their view of the Leander’s Tower from home.
21 December 2021
Erdoğan announces new economic measures, Turkish Lira gains ground
Erdoğan: “If the returns made by our people on Turkish Lira at the bank is higher than the increase in the exchange rate, they will receive these returns; but if the returns given by the exchange rate is higher, the margin will be directly paid to our citizens.”
21 December 2021
COVID-19 | Turkey’s number of daily cases tops 18 thousand again
The Ministry of Health has announced that over 351 thousand tests were conducted, 18,762 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 176 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.
21 December 2021
'Interest rates are decreasing but Turkey's debt is multiplying'
The gross debt stock of the central government has increased to 2.2 trillion lira over the past few months "because of wrong policies," says the CHP's Lale Karabıyık.
20 December 2021
Hikmet Adal
‘Good boys’ who bombed Umut Bookshop acquitted
Caught while fleeing after bombing the Umut Bookshop in Hakkari’s Şemdinli in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, non-commissioned military officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz and informant Veysel Ateş have been acquitted in retrial.
20 December 2021
Police officer says ‘enough gas was used’ on the day Metin Lokumcu died
The trial over the killing of retired teacher Metin Lokumcu with pepper gas continued at the Trabzon 2nd High Criminal Court. The court has accepted the lawyers' request for hearing the defendants in courtroom and adjourned the trial until January 6-7.
20 December 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Snap elections would stop Turkish lira's depreciation, says main opposition leader
"While we were asking 'Where is the 128 billion dollars?' we were thinking about these days," Kılıçdaroğlu has said.
20 December 2021
'The entire country is a crime scene'
The exhibition titled "Crime Scene" focuses on rights violations in the 20 years of the AKP's rule.
20 December 2021
Melis Yıldırım
Antep Mayor Şahin remains silent to violence against journalist on live broadcast
Habertürk Ankara representative Muharrem Sarıkaya slapped İhlas News Agency (İHA) reporter Ahmet Demir. While he apologized for his behavior later on, both his behavior and the silence of Fatma Şahin have caused a public outrage.
20 December 2021
Forensic Medicine Institute decides another prisoner with cancer 'can stay in prison'
Yusuf Özmen was arrested in February 2018 despite having cancer. He cannot stay in prison according to medical reports from five different hospitals.
20 December 2021
Carbon monoxide poisoning in Kırıkkale: Two children hospitalized
Amid deep poverty and increasing costs of residential heating in Turkey, two children, Zahide Nur (8) and Aybüke Zümra Tosun (4), have been affected by the carbon monoxide leaking from the heating stove. They have been taken to a hospital.
20 December 2021
Police officers investigated for battering, accusing a child of bicycle theft
Father Ferhat A. has told the reporters that his child could not sleep at night after the incident and that he was traumatized. “I will go to the prosecutor’s office and file a complaint against the police because they battered my son,” he has said.
20 December 2021
Erdoğan slams business group over call to 'return to rules of economic science'
The president cited the Quran for his advocacy of low interest rates. Another business group announced support for his "new economic model."
20 December 2021
Statistics refute minister’s remarks: Rent in city centers 10 times higher than minimum wage
According to a study carried out by a research center affiliated with Bahçeşehir University, the annual increase in rent is 78.8 percent in İstanbul, 62 percent in the capital city of Ankara and 50 percent in İzmir.
20 December 2021
Turkey’s Parliament passes 2022 budget
In the vote taken by 524 members of the parliament, the 2022 budget of Turkey has been approved by 327 votes against 197. Vice President Oktay addressed the capital groups: “Nothing against financial liberty will happen.”
20 December 2021
Forty-five workers injured in mine collapse after firedamp explosion in İzmir
The company was previously warned about high levels of methane in the mine, a union has stated.
20 December 2021
Pious voters drift away from AKP: ‘Interests, corruption, extravagance...’
A recent survey by the TEAM has shown that pious voters now more widely criticize the AKP government with the economic problems and injustice on the top of their list of complaints. But they still do not see an alternative to the AKP.
20 December 2021
Ruken Tuncel
Journalists win legal struggle for press cards in Turkey
Council of State has halted the execution of the regulation on Press Cards: “The authority of the Communications Directorate is limited to giving press cards. It is not authorized to decide who will be given the card or when it is to be cancelled.”
20 December 2021
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Public employees protest, call on government to resign: ‘We cannot make a living'
The rally held by the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK) in Ankara and İstanbul was attended by thousands of workers. KESK Co-Chair Bozgeyik has raised concerns that people are getting poorer in Turkey everyday.
20 December 2021
82 percent of Turkey's society say their purchasing power has decreased
A survey carried out by the NG Research company has found that 7 out of every 10 people think Turkey’s economy will get worse in upcoming years. 94 percent are of the opinion that the increase in exchange rates affect the economy negatively.
20 December 2021
Taybet İnan commemorated: 'Perpetrators are still on duty'
Shot by snipers in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Şırnak province during curfews in 2015 and with her deceased body left on the street for 7 days, Taybet İnan has been commemorated in the 6th year of her death in the place where she was killed.
20 December 2021
Turkey’s number of daily coronavirus cases drops below 17 thousand
The Ministry of Health has announced that over 349 thousand tests were conducted, 16,910 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 171 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.
20 December 2021
'Minimum wage for all'
Government raises minimum wage sharply but lira is sinking faster • Is the main reason for drought in Turkey the climate crisis or wrong water policies? • Four deaths in a week put spotlight on ill prisoners’ situation
18 December 2021
Volga Kuşçuoğlu
Twelve detained in investigation into HDP congress
Prosecutors are investigating the party's congress in İstanbul over "slogans and songs praising terrorists."
17 December 2021
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Only one country’s central bank cuts policy rate in December: Turkey
The central banks of 14 countries have increased the policy rate this month. The only bank which has reduced it is Turkey's Central Bank. The depreciation of the Turkish Lira against foreign exchanges has hit almost 100 percent since September 2021.
17 December 2021
Survey: 'Situation of human rights in Kurdish regions no different from the 1990s'
More than 40 percent of the people in Diyarbakır do not trust the country's justice system, according to a new survey by the Diyarbakır Bar Association and the Rawest Research company.
17 December 2021
Ruken Tuncel
Half of 18.2 billion cubic meters of water abstracted by thermal plants in 2020
In 2020, a total of 18.2 billion cubic meters of water was abstracted from water resources, 9.8 billion cubic meters of which was for cooling purposes, according to the Water and Wastewater Statistics of the TurkStat for 2020.
17 December 2021
At least 164 workers lost their lives in November
More than 2,000 workers have been killed in occupational homicides so far this year, according to İSİG.
17 December 2021
HDP calls for ‘immediate action to protect ill prisoners’ rights and health’
“The government, which has normalized torture and ill treatment, has also encouraged courts to take unlawful and inhuman decisions on sick prisoners,” say the HDP Co-Spokesersons for Foreign Affairs in the wake of the death of two ill prisoners.
17 December 2021
4 journalists resign from Cumhuriyet following dismissed chief editor’s resignation
After eight employees of daily Cumhuriyet, also members of a labor union, were dismissed, Küçükkaya was also removed from office as the Editor-in-Chief after expressing support. With Küçükkaya having resigned, four others have followed suit.
17 December 2021
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