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Turkey’s Central Bank keeps interest rate unchanged
The Monetary Policy Committee of Turkey’s Central Bank has kept the policy rate (one-week repo auction rate) fixed at 19 percent.
15 April 2021
Police prevent health workers’ protests in İstanbul, Diyarbakır
Physicians attempted to make a press statement near Çemberlitaş tram station; however, they have been prevented by the police. The protests of Amed Health Platform in Diyarbakır have also been hindered by police officers.
15 April 2021
Warrant against 3 people for forcing Sibel to sex work
The court board has ruled that Mutlu E. shall remain behind bars and adjourned the hearing until June 22. Attorney Eren Keskin has said, “We, as women, will once again be here on June 22. We will support Sibel.”
15 April 2021
Evrim Kepenek
More young women applied to Mor Çatı Women's Shelter in 2020
The Mor Çatı Women's Shelter Foundation has released its 2020 annual report.
15 April 2021
Summary of proceedings against Independent MP Ahmet Şık
A summary of proceedings has been issued against Independent İstanbul MP Ahmet Şık due to his statements during the Boğaziçi University protests against the appointed rector. The file sent to the Justice Ministry seeks lifting of his legislative immunity.
15 April 2021
Police remove CHP banners asking 'Where is 128 billion dollars?'
The main opposition party accuses the government of causing the Central Bank to run out of foreign exchange reserves and asks where the money has been spent.
15 April 2021
'The act of advocacy has become impossible in Turkey’
In his general commentary attached to the report, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) Secretary General Coşkun Üsterci says, “Unfortunately, the new Human Rights Action Plan creates no hope or excitement in us."
15 April 2021
Erdoğan: Islam forbids violence against women, we can draft a better convention
President Erdoğan has commented on Turkey’s withdrawal from İstanbul Convention: “If we absolutely need such a contract, we can draught one that is fairer, better, and stronger, call it the Ankara Convention, and go forward with that."
15 April 2021
İstanbul Governor's Office holds 'ceremony' to distribute potatoes, onions to the poor
The government should take a rights-based approach and shouldn't reveal the people whom it provides assistance, says Hacer Foggo from the Deep Poverty Network.
15 April 2021
Evrim Kepenek
‘Free Selahattin Demirtaş’ campaign in the UK
The Center for Kurdish Progress has launched a petition demanding freedom for former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars in Edirne Prison since November 2016 despite an ECtHR ruling.
15 April 2021
Evrim Kepenek
'Child abuse, male violence have increased during pandemic'
“We know that violence begins and ends in language,” says bianet Women and LGBTI+ editor Evrim Kepenek in an interview on bianet male violence monitoring reports: “Unfortunately, the violence in the language is mainly produced by politicians.”
15 April 2021
AKP to municipalities: ‘Pay off citizens’ debts to shopkeepers’
Mehmet Özhaseki, the Vice Chair of the ruling AKP responsible for local administrations, has sent a circular to the AKP’s municipalities across the country and asked them to pay off citizens’ debts to shopkeepers.
15 April 2021
COVID-19 in Turkey: Daily case number hits a new high
The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s daily COVID-19 case number is 62,797. While 279 people have lost their lives in the last 24 hours, 3,018 patients are reportedly in a critical condition.
15 April 2021
‘COVID-19 is a working class disease’
Turkish Medical Association Chair Prof. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı has underlined that the ruling AKP cannot manage the pandemic: “Society must be enabled to say, ‘We don’t give up our right to life’.”
15 April 2021
Letter to jailed journalist Nedim Türfent found ‘objectionable’
A letter was sent to jailed journalist Nedim Türfent. It explained how the expression “We won't look down” came up, with an article titled “A brief history of the command to look down” attached. Both the letter and the article have been found ‘objectionable.’
15 April 2021
US cancels passage of its warships through Turkey’s straits
The warships were set to reach the Black Sea on April 14 and 15 and remain there until May 4 and 5, according to the diplomatic sources.
15 April 2021
Ahmet Altan released
The Court of Cassation has given a ruling of release for journalist-writer Ahmet Altan, who has been behind bars for 4 years, 7 months and for whom the ECtHR has recently given a ruling of right violation. Altan has been released from Silivri Prison.
14 April 2021
Journalists demand reinstatement of rights after top court verdict annulling media closures
We have talked about the recent Constitutional Court ruling with journalists from Hayatın Sesi TV and İMC TV, two outlets closed during the state of emergency after the 2017 coup attempt.
14 April 2021
Hikmet Adal
Summaries of proceedings against 10 MPs submitted to Parliament
The summaries of proceedings are against eight main opposition CHP MPs, including CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and two MPs of the HDP. The summaries seek lifting the legislative immunity of the MPs.
14 April 2021
Demirtaş to court board: This might probably be our last meeting
In the main trial of jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has not been released despite an ECtHR judgement, the court board has requested that the file of the main trial be merged with that of the Kobanê trial.
14 April 2021
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‘Sofagate’ protest in France: ‘We support Ursula von der Leyen’
A group of women have gathered in front of Turkey’s Embassy in Paris and protested the country for not giving an equal seat to European Commission President von der Leyen with European Council President Michel and President Erdoğan.
14 April 2021
Put on trial for entering a ‘forbidden military zone’, journalists acquitted
Standing trial for “entering a forbidden military zone” in Edirne while reporting on the situation of refugees heading towards Turkey-Greece border, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Naci Kaya and İdris Sayılğan have been acquitted.
14 April 2021
Police intervention against Migros workers on the 100th day of their protest
Dismissed with ‘Code 29’ after joining a labor union, the workers of Migros supermarket chain have been once again taken into custody in front of the house of their employer Tuncay Özilhan on the 100th day of their protest.
14 April 2021
Akşener to Erdoğan: You will take responsibility for jam-packed congresses
İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has said, “While the countries that take the outbreak seriously are normalizing one by one, Turkey is going through its worst period, which is a result of gross incompetence.”
14 April 2021
The 'new Boğaziçi University': Censorship, surveillance and LGBTI+phobia
Boğaziçi protests mark 100 days • The Montreux declaration: "It was a trap" • Covid Cases and deaths reach unprecedented levels in the third wave • Journalists non grata
14 April 2021
Volga Kuşçuoğlu
Tuma Çelik: I have been acquitted
Stripped of his legislative immunity and discharged from the HDP over allegations of sexual assault, Tuma Çelik has released a statement for the press and said, “Since the beginning, I have been saying that all allegations are groundless.”
14 April 2021
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AKP deputy chair explains what happened to Turkey's Central Bank reserves
The opposition and economists have accused the government of draining the reserves by selling 128 billion dollars in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the US dollar's exchange rate from rising.
14 April 2021
Forced to sex work, Sibel says, ‘The real struggle starts now’
Struggling against a crime group which forced her to sex work, Sibel Y. calls on everyone to follow the first hearing tomorrow, on April 15, 2021: “Don’t leave me alone."
14 April 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Boğaziçi academics appeal against dean appointment to law faculty
The academics of Boğaziçi University have filed a lawsuit against the appointment of Prof. Selami Kuran as a dean to the Faculty of Law, which has been established by a Presidential decision shortly after the rector appointment.
14 April 2021
İstanbul rearranges public transportation according to new curfew hours
Going into effect today, the expanded weekday curfews will start at 7 p.m.
14 April 2021
Çarşema Sor: May this day be a harbinger of peace
On the first Wednesday after April 13 each year, Yazidis celebrate the festival of “Çarşema Sor” (Red Wednesday). HDP has marked the day, saying, “May this day be the harbinger of peace and fraternity”.
14 April 2021
COVID-19: Interior Ministry issues circular on ‘partial lockdown’
Shortly after President Erdoğan announced “partial lockdown” measures following the cabinet meeting, the Interior Ministry has issued COVID-19 guidelines on partial curfew. A Presidential circular has also been issued about flexible work in public institutions.
14 April 2021
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