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Shopkeepers: Customers just ask for the price, but don't buy anything

İSTANBUL'S BEYOĞLU

Shopkeepers: Customers just ask for the price, but don't buy anything

As the economic crisis deepens in Turkey, shopkeepers in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul consider shutting down their shops.

23 May 2022 Burak Siperli

Atölye BİA training videos now online!

Atölye BİA training videos now online!

You may access the trilingual training videos on Rights-Based Journalism, News Photography, LGBTI+based Journalism and Freedom of Expression on atolyebia.org.

26 January 2022

Council of Higher Education insists on ‘Turkish’ at Galatasaray University

Council of Higher Education insists on ‘Turkish’ at Galatasaray University

The academics from France working at Galatasaray University are required to know at least B2 level Turkish so that their residence and work permits will be renewed. The talks with the Embassy of France in Ankara have remained inconclusive.

29 June 2021 Hülya Çetinkaya

Being an LGBTI+ in Turkey: ‘We are not safe’

IN THE WAKE OF PRIDE MARCH

Being an LGBTI+ in Turkey: ‘We are not safe’

The LGBTI+s who came together in Taksim for the 19th İstanbul Pride March were once again attacked by the police.

29 June 2021 Vedat Örüç

Refugee LGBTI+s deprived of the right to health

Refugee LGBTI+s deprived of the right to health

According to the report of the HEVİ LGBTI+ Association, LGBTI+ refugees face many obstacles such as the language barrier and discriminatory attitude of healthcare workers.

11 May 2021 Elif Solmaz

Afghan shepherds: 40-day journey from Afghanistan to Turkey

STORY OF 2 AFGHAN SHEPHERDS IN ANKARA

Afghan shepherds: 40-day journey from Afghanistan to Turkey

When it comes to the profession of shepherding in Turkey, they come to mind first. Every year, hundreds of them travel thousands of kilometers on foot. Here are two of them; the story of Cemal and Muhammed…

7 May 2021 Hakan Erdal

Seasonal agricultural workers: ‘Deprived of hygiene, detached from education’

PROBLEMS AGGRAVATED BY PANDEMIC

Seasonal agricultural workers: ‘Deprived of hygiene, detached from education’

Problems of seasonal agricultural workers in Manisa are aggravated even more by the pandemic. In addition to a dire need for hot and clean water, the income inequality and the number of children detached from education rise every year.

7 May 2021 Esmer Değirmen

‘We survive the pandemic thanks to Somalians’

SHOPKEEPERS DENOUNCE THE ATTACK

‘We survive the pandemic thanks to Somalians’

The neighboring shopkeepers condemn the attack on the shops of Somalians in Ankara in mid-April. They say that the streets where the attack occurred are so busy thanks to the shops of Somalians, adding that they also benefit from this.

6 May 2021 Cansu Acar

Musicians sell their instruments, return to their hometowns

PANDEMIC IN TURKEY

Musicians sell their instruments, return to their hometowns

For more than a year, stages have been closed and concerts have not been held. Five different musicians who are having a hard time spoke to bianet about how they are trying to survive.

5 May 2021 Dara Demiralp

Major issue on Newroz agenda: Closure case against HDP

MURAT BAYRAM IN DİYARBAKIR

Major issue on Newroz agenda: Closure case against HDP

The message given from Newroz celebrations in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province: “Turkey is heading towards a one-man regime; the closure of the HDP means that all political groups will lose political ground.”

22 March 2021 Murat Bayram

Student under house arrest: 'They turn our house into prison'

BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY PROTESTS

Student under house arrest: 'They turn our house into prison'

Karaca was one of hundreds of students taken into custody during the Boğaziçi University protests in İstanbul’s Kadıköy on February 2. Detained for 2 days, he was placed under house arrest. He has spoken to bianet.

5 March 2021 Vedat Örüç

‘Those who don’t give me my money live in luxury’

BIMEKS WORKERS

‘Those who don’t give me my money live in luxury’

Not paid their wages and severance for years, the workers of Bimeks electronics retailer turn wherever their bosses go into a site of protest. “We are trying to exert pressure by targeting their identities known by the public,” says Celep from Umut-Sen union.

13 January 2021 Melisa Elçin Özçelikel

‘We left the university diplomas at the gate of the tunnel’

UNIVERSITY GRADUATES' SHIFT AT CONSTRUCTION SITE

‘We left the university diplomas at the gate of the tunnel’

The construction site of a high-speed rail line in Kırıkkale epitomizes the scale of unemployment among university graduates in Turkey. An archeologist, journalists, an interior architect and paramedic excavate a tunnel together for 12 hours a day.

11 January 2021 Serkan Ermin

The Ones Left out of Quarantine: Journey of Seasonal Agricultural Workers Begins

The Ones Left out of Quarantine: Journey of Seasonal Agricultural Workers Begins

Agricultural workers say, “We live in 11-person family tents where we go. We work for peanuts in precarious, temporary jobs. We don’t have rights. We are not even treated like fellow human beings most of the time.”

14 April 2020 Filiz Yalçıntaş

Enforced Disappearances: Different Methods, Same Silence

ATÖLYE BİA / APPLIED NEWS WORKSHOP - FEBRUARY 2020

Enforced Disappearances: Different Methods, Same Silence

A UN commission keeps searching for the enforced disappeared in Cyprus. However, the questions of families from the Rum and Turkish sides are still unanswered: “Who are the perpetrators?” Kerem Çiftçioğlu from Memory Center talks about the developments.

27 February 2020 Tuğçe Özbiçer