Pınar Erol

On November 15, Writers in Prison Day, poet İlhan Sami Çomak, imprisoned for over 29 years, declared, "Justice is a widespread rumor only; no one here sees the essence of it." On the same day, Ogün Samast, the murderer of Hrant Dink, the Editor-in-Chief of Agos Newspaper, was released after over 16 years of detention.

We spoke with two Airbnb operators in İstanbul's two popular tourist districts, Beyoğlu and Kadıköy, regarding the new law commonly referred to as the "Airbnb law."

Stating that the February 6 earthquakes went beyond the earthquake anticipated in the 2018 earthquake regulation and that the "extensive amount of data" obtained will put the scientists in a new position, Prof. Dr. Kemal Beyen says "The 1999 earthquake was a milestone for us, February 6 earthquakes should be similar."

The film is about a young Kurdish woman from Diyarbakır, a promising singer, who was gunned down by a man whose marriage proposal she had refused. The name of the inspirational woman this film is about, Mutlu, who miraculously survived to become a determined fighter against femicide, means "Happy" in Turkish.

The conclusion of a newly released study on the results of the first round of the 2023 presidential election on May 14 using election forensics tools says that the results suggest the presence of certain types of electoral malpractice, although less frequent in 2023 than in 2018.

National Union of Higher Education of France will be present in the courthouse today in İstanbul to be in solidarity with Pınar Selek. Without academic freedom, there is no university, they say.