Ferhat Yaşar

During detention procedures, police attempted to remove detainees' allegations of torture from their statements, a lawyer said.

Mızraklı was detained and eventually convicted after being elected the co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2019. After coming out of the prison, Mızraklı called for the release of Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, whom he had shared the same prison cell for the past five years.

14-year-old Ali Şihap was shot and killed in Adana just 40 days after arriving in Turkey for work. He had lost his father, stepmother and two siblings in the conflict in Syria.

"What has been enacted here is an amnesty. It is not a general amnesty, but technically speaking, it is an amnesty aimed at a specific category," says the İstanbul Bar head.

“We feel and experience our shared living spaces shrinking by the day. Nearly all the coastal areas that we used freely for years, and whose status as public spaces was supposedly protected by the Constitution and the Coastal Law, have now been privatized," sasy a local activist.

Being imprisoned doesn't strip people of their properpty rights, notes Melisa Gebeş from CİSST.

The agency offered a raise below Turkey's official inflation rate, which the journalists say already fails to reflect the economic reality in the country.

"NATO 1.0 and NATO 2.0 versions were defined by the absolute weight of America. From now on, Europeans are expected to shoulder most of the burden," said political scientist Soli Özel.