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RESISTANCE IN FRONT OF CLOSED MINE
40 miners are neither paid their wages, nor dismissed from their jobs
Workers of a mine in Ermenek, Karaman have started a second resistance as neither their wages nor their severance are paid. “There were times when I could not even afford baby food and diapers for my child,” says Abdullah Büber, one of the miners.
1 September 2020
PROF. VOLKAN EDİGER
'Gas discovered by Turkey in the Black Sea is worth 60 to 70 billion dollars'
While the discovery is an important milestone for Turkey, there still a lot of work to do to extract the gas, according to Prof. Ediger.
25 August 2020
‘I reported on corruption, I have been sentenced to prison’
With his prison sentence of 1 year, 15 days upheld by the Court of Cassation, local journalist Özgür Boğatekin has received an official notification, summoning him to the prosecutor’s office within 10 days for the execution of his sentence.
21 August 2020
COURT BLOCKS ACCESS TO REPORTS
Can a rapist have the 'right to be forgotten'?
A court has blocked access to news reports about wrestler Recep Çakır's rape of a 23-year-old woman.
19 August 2020
PROF. DR. HALUK ÖZENER
Turkey 'forgot earthquakes after the pandemic started'
Kandilli Observatory has warned on the 21st anniversary of the 1999 İzmit earthquake that seismicity is very high in the fault line in the Sea of Marmara.
18 August 2020
Indictment against journalist Rawîn Stêrk five months after his arrest
İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office charges Rûdaw reporter Rawîn Stêrk with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” and “membership of an armed terrorist organization.” Stêrk has been arrested in Ankara since March.
30 July 2020
ALTERNATIVE INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION CHAIR
‘Social media platforms should not accept Turkey’s new social media law’
Alternative Informatics Association Chair spoke to bianet about the new social media law: “While Penal Judges of Peace can give rulings without justification, social media providers will have to answer hundreds of requests by giving a justification.”
30 July 2020
KAVALA ANSWERED QUESTIONS OF BIANET
‘My arrest is a fantastic fiction’
Today marks the 1,000th day of businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala’s imprisonment. Kavala has answered the questions of bianet.
27 July 2020
FIRST FRIDAY PRAYER AT HAGIA SOPHIA
Erdoğan recites Quran at Hagia Sophia, religious authority head gives sermon with sword
Hagia Sophia reopened as a mosque with a Friday prayer attended by thousands of people.
24 July 2020
Turkey's new social media bill aimed at 'silencing dissenting voices and making money'
Prof. Yaman Akdeniz and lecturer Gökhan Ahi have commented on the government's new social media bill.
22 July 2020
Journalist Deniz Yücel says court sentenced him to 'intimidate all foreign reporters'
Die Welt's former İstanbul correspondent has been handed a prison sentence nearly two-and-a-half years after his release.
20 July 2020
IN THE WAKE OF FIREWORK EXPLOSIONS
The agenda of Hendek is the agenda of Turkey
Explosion, unemployment, poverty, economic crisis, pandemic… These are what is left behind after a day in Hendek, which has been recently struck by two firework blasts. They are also the only items on people’s agenda from the very west to the very east.
15 July 2020
Farmers in southeast Turkey 'fed up with illegal power cuts'
Many people don't cultivate their lands due to electricity debts that are caused by "arbitrary and illegal" power cuts by the region's energy company, according to farmers.
10 July 2020
IN THE WAKE OF FACTORY EXPLOSION
‘Death is hard, but it is much harder when it happens like this’
Having lost her uncle in the firework factory blast in Sakarya, Uzuner says, “Owners of the factory called my cousin and said, ‘He shouldn’t have worked if he found it unsafe.’ They might be reducing the deceased to numbers, but they are not numbers for us.”
8 July 2020
Fireworks factory explosion: 'They endangered people's lives,' says killed worker's brother
Murat Tepeçınar, who lost his brother in the explosion in Sakarya, has said that the businesspeople "didn't even attend our funerals. we are not their enemies.
6 July 2020
Do online exams violate personal data?
“Universities violate students’ personal data while trying to prevent them from cheating in online exams,” says Hasan Selçuk Turan, the Chair of İstanbul Bar Association’s Commission on Protection of Personal Data.
30 June 2020
Criminal complaint by Constitutional Court against HDP
The Constitutional Court has ruled that a criminal complaint shall be filed against the party officials who accepted a donation from a person who was not a citizen of Turkey.
29 June 2020
SEARCH FOR JUSTICE IN THE DAYS OF CORONAVIRUS
Everyone can go in, journalists can't
Two cases in one day... The sadness and anger of not being able to follow either case... Courthouse journalism in the days of coronavirus... Incompletely witnessing the search for justice...
25 June 2020
Families who lost their loved ones in Çorlu train massacre: Give us justice
“It has been 718 days. Our sons and daughters are not here anymore, neither are our brothers and sisters, spouses, mothers… All through these two years, we had only one demand: Justice,” says Bilgin, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Bihter.
25 June 2020
‘None of us is free when journalists are behind bars’
Jailed journalists Barış Pehlivan, Barış Terkoğlu, Hülya Kılınç, Ferhat Çelik, Aydın Keser and Murat Ağırel stood trial for the first time today. Before hearing started, politicians, journalists and rights defenders staged a protest in front of İstanbul Courthouse.
24 June 2020
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ISTANBUL PROTESTANT CHURCH FOUNDATION CHAIR
‘There is an attempt to deprive Protestants of pastors in Turkey’
İstanbul Protestant Church Foundation Chair Timur Topuz says that pastors who come to Turkey or live here have been facing a series of hindrances and hardships since 2019.
17 June 2020
ERITREA GOVERNMENT DETAINS 3 SAILORS
‘We cannot hear from my father for 50 days’
Sailing around the world, three sailors from Turkey, İbrahim Iğnak, Selim Ekmekçioğlu and Lütfi Erman Atamer, have been detained by the government of Eritrea. Unable to hear from their loved ones for 50 days now, families are worried.
15 June 2020
Journalist Sentenced to Prison for Criticizing Sub-Governor, Verdict Upheld 6 Years Later
The 8th Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation has upheld journalist Özgür Boğatekin’s prison sentence of 1 year, 15 days. The Court of Appeals has rejected the application regarding the judicial fine given to him for “insulting Erdoğan.
5 June 2020
‘Attacks are Not Isolated, Another Threatening Message Sent to Hrant Dink Foundation’
Fethiye Çetin, an attorney of Hrant Dink Foundation, says that the threatening messages sent to the foundation and Rakel Dink are similar to those sent before the assassination of Hrant Dink: “It is not an isolated incident, as indicated by authorities.”
1 June 2020
156TH YEAR OF CIRCASSIAN GENOCIDE
Jıneps Publishes Special Issue Together with the Motherland in Mother Language for May 21
Editor Yılmaz says, “We have prepared a joint issue with the Adıge Mak, Adıge Psale, Çerkes Heku and Şapsugiya newspapers from the motherland and in the mother language. We want to represent all Caucasian peoples in their languages.”
21 May 2020
SÖZERİ & ÖNDEROĞLU COMMENT FOR BIANET
'Radio, TV Supreme Council Needs to be Changed into an Autonomous Structure'
While Assoc. Prof. Sözeri says that the RTÜK takes a more repressive attitude towards critical media, RSF Representative Önderoğlu notes that if the RTÜK does not have an autonomous structure, screens will be closed to critical public opinion.
20 May 2020
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Eren Keskin: Interests Take Precedence Over Human Health in Football
Rights defender Keskin has spoken to bianet about the resumption of football leagues: “The federation, like the government, worries about money more than human health. Everyone has, in a sense, become a slave to the money to be brought in by football.”
15 May 2020
Courts Need to Comply with ECtHR Decision, Says Kavala's Attorney
"The ECtHR decision has now become final. Judges now need to consciously abide by the importance, effectiveness of this decision. They must respect the decision and remove the arrest order," says attorney Köksal Bayraktar.
13 May 2020
CORONAVIRUS
‘If Seasonal Agricultural Workers Cannot Find a Job, Child Labor will Increase’
Development Workshop has released a report on the lives of seasonal agricultural workers in Turkey in the days of coronavirus pandemic. Ayşe Özsoy from Development Workshop has answered the questions of bianet.
7 May 2020
TOURISM SECTOR AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC
‘In None of My Unemployed Periods Did I Feel So Hopeless as Now’
Having started to work at a tourism agency after being unemployed for over two years, Bülent Demirer has now lost his job due to coronavirus. According to Progressive Tourism Workers Union, there are over three million unemployed people in the sector.
29 April 2020
Grocery Worker: We Work 12 Hours a Day, Threatened to be Fired if We Speak to Media
An employee at the Şok Market grocery chain has told bianet about their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.
28 April 2020
Hotel Worker: We are Put on Unpaid Leave, Now We Don't Even Have Money for Shopping
"Our boss, who has nine hotels, has a hotel in London, doesn't pay our salaries on the excuse of coronavirus," says a hotel worker in Taksim, a tourist district in İstanbul.
24 April 2020
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