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Police detain students who came to courthouse in support of detained friends

BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY PROTESTS

Police detain students who came to courthouse in support of detained friends

A group of students came to the İstanbul Courthouse to support their friends detained for carrying rainbow flags at Boğaziçi University during the protests against the appointed rector. They have also been detained; police intervention is still ongoing.

An Emergent Political Icon on the Landscape of İstanbul: The Palace of (In)Justice

An Emergent Political Icon on the Landscape of İstanbul: The Palace of (In)Justice

For dissidents, Çağlayan serves as double signifier, referring both to the arbitrariness of judicial proceedings under the Erdoğan regime, and also to an emergent gathering space to express solidary with its victims

16 January 2017 Ayşe Öncü

Academic Detained for Having ‘Newroz Invitation’

Academic Detained for Having ‘Newroz Invitation’

Bilgi University academic member, Chris Stephenson has been detained at İstanbul Justice Palace where he came to support his colleagues for carrying HDP’s Newroz invitations in his bag.

15 March 2016 Beyza Kural

"The Issue Isn’t Underwear, It’s Equating Courthouses with Prisons"

"The Issue Isn’t Underwear, It’s Equating Courthouses with Prisons"

Attorney Leyla Han Tüzel recounted the “non-beeping underwear” argument with the deputy chief prosecutor in Bakırköy Courthouse; “They want people to go into courthouses the way they go into prisons. That logic is what we are opposing here.”

10 April 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu