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"Should We Hang the Police Officers?"
Minister of the Interior Şahin criticized the news about Cengiz who was beaten by the police. According to the minister, this was a single incident and the news was exaggerated. He questioned, "What do you want? Should I put up the gallows and hang my personnel?"
19 December 2011
"Our New-Born Babies did not Wear Uniforms"
The fourth hearing of the "Everybody is born as a baby" trial against Savda, Aydemir and Atak, supporters of conscientious objector Aydemir, was held on 14 December. The defendants' request to consult a gynaecologist on the topic was dismissed.
16 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
Syrian Defectors Tell their Stories
Defectors from the Syrian military and intelligence agencies told their stories in interviews with Human Rights Watch.
16 December 2011
"Additional Information" Landed Journalist in Jail
Birgün reporter Aşam was sentenced to one year in jail on the grounds of supportive information of a news item published in January this year. Her signature was not under the main news but under a box with additional information.
16 December 2011
Emel Gülcan
Male Culprits Killed 20 Women in October
According to data compiled by bianet, 20 women were killed by men in October 2011. 22 women were wounded, seven women raped. From January to October 2011, a total of 226 women were killed and 93 were raped.
16 December 2011
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
Crucial Problems: Detained Journalists and Censorship
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Mijatovic paid her first official visit to Turkey to talk to government officials about media freedom. Prior to the talks she attended a panel of the Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences on freedom of expression.
15 December 2011
qwerty
"Revolting" Students Rely on Legal Rights
117 students of the Middle East Technical University stand trial in the context of a protest action against the government and YÖK. The students put forward that they used their legal right to attend the related press release. The trial will be continued on 16 March.
15 December 2011
Serhat Korkmaz
One Artist, Seven Investigations, Two Trials
Seven investigation and two trials were opened against Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunç by reason of speeches made during the run-up to the general election in June. Tunç claims his speeches were peaceful messages and did not intend to encourage the people to rebellion.
15 December 2011
Nilay Vardar
Cyprus Controversy in Parliament
BDP Deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü and CHP MP Şafak Pavey launched a discussion in Parliament upon their statements on the European Union and Cyprus. Kürkçü said that the Kurdish question and Cyprus were the fundamental problems of the country that needed to be discussed to find a solution.
14 December 2011
57 Percent of Population Do not Use Internet
According to a study into the "Use of the Internet and Social Media" of the KONDA research company, 57 percent of the Turkish population do not use the internet at all. 41 percent deems it harmful and the section of society using it the least is the electorate of the AKP.
14 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
Intelligence Official's Threat against Dink Time-Barred?
In 2004, two members of the National Intelligence Agency allegedly gave slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink a lesson on where his place was at a meeting at the Governor's Office. The related investigation was now time-barred.
14 December 2011
Ayça Söylemez
Turkish Government Convicted for Death at Military Post
The ECHR ruled for a violation of the right to life in the case of the alleged suicide of Ekrem Kurt during his military service. His family will receive compensation from the Turkish government.
13 December 2011
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
Thousands of Arrests, Dozens of Deaths in Prisons
In a joint statement issued during the human rights week, the human rights associations TİHV and İHD noted that custodies and arrests of the investigations into the KCK, the Hopa incidents and the Revolutionary Headquarter reached massive dimensions.
13 December 2011
Ayça Söylemez
In the Dock together with Einstein and Dostoevsky
The trial regarding the "I've had enough" 2010 agenda of Metis was continued on 30 November. The case was opened on 26 November 2010 because the calendar allegedly denigrated religious values.
13 December 2011
Emel Gülcan
Halil Savda Released
Conscientious objector Halil Savda was released after he gave his statement to the prosecutor. He had been taken into custody at the airport in Istanbul when he was about to follow an invitation of Amnesty International to Paris.
12 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
Conscientious Objector İnan Süver Free
Conscientious objector İnan Süver was released after 16 months in prison. His sentence was postponed. Süver told bianet that he was extremely happy to be part of the social life again after his release.
12 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
22 Releases in Hopa Trial
All 22 detained defendants of the Hopa trial in Ankara were released pending trial at the hearing on 9 December. A total of 28 defendants are tried on the grounds of protests against massive police interventions against anti-government demonstrations in Hopa in May.
12 December 2011
M. Atakan Foça,Gökhan Keskin
"Free Agenda", Free Press
About 50 journalists and intellectuals sold the Özgür Gündem newspaper on Human Rights day in Istanbul to speak up for press freedom and freedom of expression.
12 December 2011
Sercan Meriç
"Judicial Practice is Problematic"
In her preliminary report based on a visit to Turkey in October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers urged for the effective independence and impartiality of judges, prosecutors and lawyers and an accelerated implementation of these reforms.
9 December 2011
Kurdish Politician Alınak Back to Prison
Mahmut Alınak was arrested again together with Mehmet Ayata, Yalçın Sarıtaş and Sebahat Zeynep Arat upon the prosecutor's appeal. They were taken to a prison in Istanbul. Alınak had initially been released pending trial after the KCK operation on 22 November.
9 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
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General Staff Denied Use of Chemical Weapons
The General Staff Presidency denied the alleged use of chemical weapons. Pursuant to the statement, the Turkish Armed Forces do not hold chemical weapons and ammunition in their inventory.
9 December 2011
Darwin Sites Banned - Survival of the Fittest?
The children profile of the internet filtering system enforced on 22 November banned access to all web sites related to the theory of evolution and to naturalist Charles Darwin.
9 December 2011
Nedim Şener Acquitted of Charges on "Interesting Scheme"
Journalist Nedim Şener was acquitted in a trial related to the Ergenekon investigation. Charges of breaching the confidentiality of the Ergenekon investigation had been pressed against the detained journalist.
8 December 2011
Evidence in Kurdish, Court in Turkish
At the 28th hearing of the Diyarbakır KCK trial, the court rejected the transfer of the case to another province and accepted the request to have the defendants appear at court altogether. The next hearing was set for 12 December.
8 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
"Opening and Backsliding at the same Time''
KCK Diyarbakır trial observer Ann-Margarethe Livh from the Swedish Left Party said in interview on women rights that women in Turkey knew how to focus their struggle. "Even if most of these women are in jail because of the KCK trial, they will not give up".
8 December 2011
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
Conscientious Objector Savda in Custody
Conscientious Objector Savda was taken into custody at the airport in Istanbul when he was about to travel to Paris. His custody is allegedly based on Savda's conviction on charges of "alienating the public from the military".
7 December 2011
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Troublesome Life of Co-Wives in South-Eastern Turkey
According to a research by the Silopi Viyan Women Solidarity Centre, "co-wives" as the second or third wife of one man at a time are usually being married when they are under 20 years old. Most of them come from Syria and Irak and stay mainly because of their children.
7 December 2011
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
Criminal Complaint due to Chemical Weapons
The Human Rights Association, MEYA-DER, the Diyarbakır Medical Chamber and the relatives of the deceased PKK members filed a criminal complaint about the people in charge related to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kazan Valley.
7 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
KESK Go on Strike
The KESK unions confederation of public employees will go on a nation-wide strike on 21 December to protest the government's economic and human rights policies. The confederation is being supported by professional organizations, unions and associations.
6 December 2011
Ekin Karaca
Women Working Home-Based Seek their Rights
The 2nd National Conference of Home-Based Working Women was held in Ankara on 2-4 December. The participants voiced their demands for the establishment of related state-funded units and for signing the Home Work Convention.
6 December 2011
"Your Court will go down in History"
The plaintiff lawyers presented their final speech at the 22nd hearing of the trial on the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Repeatedly requested records of the Telecommunication Communication Presidency were finally sent to court and will be investigated now.
6 December 2011
Işıl Cinmen
Country-Wide Protests of Workers, Architects, Engineers, Doctors...
Upon the call of trade unions DİSK and KESK, the Medical Chamber and the chamber of architects and engineers, people in 40 provinces demonstrated against mass arrests. Only in Istanbul, about 2,000 protestors voiced their four main demands.
5 December 2011
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