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Environmental groups in Mersin: National press doesn't hear our voice
ECOLOGY JOURNALISM/MERSİN
Environmental groups in Mersin: National press doesn't hear our voice
At the "Ecology Journalism Project" meeting organized by the IPS Communication Foundation/bianet in Mersin, environmental groups and NGOs in the city conveyed their experiences.
2 November 2022
Construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant remains troubled, workers demand safety
Construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant remains troubled, workers demand safety
We spoke with the workers about working conditions, occupational safety and wages.
1 November 2022
Court to hear witnesses cited by LGBTI+ groups in 2008 homophobic murder case
Court to hear witnesses cited by LGBTI+ groups in 2008 homophobic murder case
Ahmet Yıldız was killed by his father after coming out as gay. At the 36th hearing, the court accepted for the first time the LGBTI+ groups' requests about witnesses.
6 October 2022
Dog starves to death in apartment after prosecutor refuses to allow forced entry
Dog starves to death in apartment after prosecutor refuses to allow forced entry
The dog starved for days. An animal rights defender had applied for a forced entry into the apartment but got rejected.
23 September 2022
Thousands gather at anti-LGBTI+ rally in İstanbul
Thousands gather at anti-LGBTI+ rally in İstanbul
"The Great Family Meeting" was held in the Saraçhane Park in the Fatih district.
19 September 2022
Türkiye requests new report from Brazil for aircraft carrier to be dismantled in İzmir
Türkiye requests new report from Brazil for aircraft carrier to be dismantled in İzmir
A decommissioned aircraft carrier is set to be dismantled in Türkiye. After environmental groups' campaigns, the Ministry of Environment has requested a new hazardous substance report from Brazil.
24 August 2022
Zarakolu: Nothing will change, decisions are taken by courts here, not by government
POLITICAL EXILES IN SWEDEN
Zarakolu: Nothing will change, decisions are taken by courts here, not by government
Writer and publisher Zarakolu, exiled in Sweden, has spoken to bianet about the expectation that the country will “send back the people Turkey wants to have extradited” following the signing of a memorandum on the NATO bids of Sweden and Finland.
30 June 2022
Police attack Pride Parade and detain 373 people
30TH İSTANBUL PRIDE WEEK
Police attack Pride Parade and detain 373 people
Hundreds of LGBTI+ activists have been detained at İstanbul's Pride Parade, 30 of them were under the age of 18. The Pride Parade has been banned in the city since 2015.
27 June 2022
Locals attack refugee waste workers, set depots on fire in İstanbul's Ataşehir
Locals attack refugee waste workers, set depots on fire in İstanbul's Ataşehir
After the attack, waste workers gathered at the depots to state that they will struggle against racist attacks.
15 June 2022
Police prevent gathering for Pride Month in İstanbul, detain 11 people
Police prevent gathering for Pride Month in İstanbul, detain 11 people
A group of LGBTI+ activists wanted to read out a statemet for the press in Kadıköy. Hundreds of police officers were deployed to prevent the gathering.
6 June 2022
'Methamphetamine is becoming a gateway drug in Turkey'
'Methamphetamine is becoming a gateway drug in Turkey'
Cheap prices and ease of access are the two reasons that the use of methamphetamine has become more common in Turkey, says psychiatrist Bulut.
26 May 2022
'The endless suffering': What is happening in Hagia Sophia?
'The endless suffering': What is happening in Hagia Sophia?
Shattered windows, shoes put on historical stones, a historical millstone used as a garbage bin, and covered mosaics. What is going on in Hagia Sophia? Let's take a look at it.
13 May 2022
Huge waste pond of gold mine near Euphrates river 'poisoning region,' locals say
Huge waste pond of gold mine near Euphrates river 'poisoning region,' locals say
"We were shocked after seeing the pond. What we saw was a huge cyanide pond the size of 192 football fields and a depth of 1,280 meters and it was all crimson," said a local.
29 April 2022
‘We will protect the trees in İzmir as well as in Kurdistan’
HDP’S MURAT ÇEPNİ
‘We will protect the trees in İzmir as well as in Kurdistan’
Peoples’ Democratic Party İzmir MP Çepni has spoken to bianet about why the struggles for peace and ecology cannot be considered separately and talked about the intersectionality of the two struggles.
20 April 2022
‘Not identity-based, but class-based tensions are now at the forefront in Turkey’
DECEMBER 10 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
‘Not identity-based, but class-based tensions are now at the forefront in Turkey’
Commenting on the report shedding light on rights violations and discrimination in Turkey, KONDA's Ağırdır says, “As unemployment, poverty and inequalities have increased, class tensions have come to the forefront again.”
10 December 2021
The untried court years of 1 May 1977
1 MAY 1977 AND IMPUNITY/TUĞÇE YILMAZ
The untried court years of 1 May 1977
The trial of 98 people, including leaders of DİSK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey), mentioned in the 1 May 1977 indictment prepared by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office, began at the 2nd High Criminal Court, but...
17 June 2021
Finding the traces of a 43-year-old massacre
1 MAY 1977/TUĞÇE YILMAZ
Finding the traces of a 43-year-old massacre
How did I get started on this? How did I manage to contact the friends and relatives of those who lost their lives in Taksim 43 years ago? My connections, 27 lives, my age, doors not knocked upon... Impunity, lost files, unanswered applications, autopsy reports...
15 June 2021
'The perpetrators of the 1 May 1977 massacre got away with it'
1 MAY 1977 AND IMPUNITY/ SÜLEYMAN ÇELEBİ
'The perpetrators of the 1 May 1977 massacre got away with it'
Süleyman Çelebi, the former Chair of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK), speaks of his attempts to have 1 May 1977 investigated while he was an MP, but says that each of his proposals was rejected.
10 June 2021
'If you can’t find the killers, you can’t remove the stain'
1 MAY 1977 AND IMPUNITY/ KANİ BEKO
'If you can’t find the killers, you can’t remove the stain'
Kani Beko, the former Chair of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK), speaks about the need to try the perpetrators of the 1 May 1977, saying that the stain of these incidents needs to be removed and the killers need to be found.
9 June 2021
'The state is implicated in this crime, perpetrators must be put on trial'
1 MAY 1977 AND IMPUNITY/ FEHMİ IŞIKLAR
'The state is implicated in this crime, perpetrators must be put on trial'
Fehmi Işıklar, one of the organizers and directors of the 1 May 1977 rally, talks first about demonstrators’ enthusiasm, then the sounds of gunfire and the stampede that followed. He says that the state must find a way to absolve itself of this shame.
8 June 2021
Laborer Diran Nigiz, 34, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Laborer Diran Nigiz, 34, died in Taksim
Antranik Yontan spoke of how his relative, Diran Nigiz, who he called his ‘abi’, or big brother, had a limp and was crushed in the panic, that he had a good sense of humour, and that he had migrated from Derik to Istanbul. There are no photographs of Diran.
7 June 2021
Student Sibel Açıkalın, 18, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Student Sibel Açıkalın, 18, died in Taksim
Cihat Açıkalın tells us about how his cousin, Sibel Açıkalın, was actively engaged in the struggle for student and labor rights and that she was the one who fostered in him his love of reading. "It still makes our hearts bleed to know that, despite the many years that have passed, the perpetrators have not been held accountable for their crimes," he says.
4 June 2021
Teacher Mustafa Elmas, 33, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Teacher Mustafa Elmas, 33, died in Taksim
Mustafa Elmas's wife, Selme Elmas, says "We were in love when we got married, very much in love." She then adds, "He said he was going out to buy a paper, but he never came back." Journalist Faruk Eren wrote about his middle-school teacher in a book about the political atmosphere of the 1970s.
3 June 2021
Laborer Mürtezim Oltulu, 42, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Laborer Mürtezim Oltulu, 42, died in Taksim
Mürtezim Oltulu's nephews, Recep Oltulu and Yüksel Oltulu, spoke of how, after completing primary school, their uncle followed his older brother to Halkalı in Istanbul, and of how they struggled to find the 4000 lira needed to claim his body. There are no photographs of Mürtezim Oltulu.
2 June 2021
Factory Worker Ziya Baki, 30, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Factory Worker Ziya Baki, 30, died in Taksim
Workers from the Uzel factory and union leaders Mehmet Ali Kılıç and Rıza Durak tell us about their friend Ziya, how fearless he was, and how they weren't able to attend his funeral. Murat Tokmak had also given information about the three workers from the Uzel factory who lost their lives in an interview with the newspaper Radikal.
1 June 2021
Security Guard Mehmet Ali Genç, 60, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Security Guard Mehmet Ali Genç, 60, died in Taksim
Şükrü Genç tells us that his father died on his way home from work after his shift at the Maksim Gazinosu nightclub, that he had moved to Istanbul to find work, and how, as they were claiming his body to take back to their village, they were given the belongings of a child.
31 May 2021
Itinerant salesperson Hamdi Toka, 35, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Itinerant salesperson Hamdi Toka, 35, died in Taksim
Hamdi Toka’s nephew and cousin spoke of how he died while selling sandwiches in Taksim, of the family’s poverty, of how he left the village of Başsökü in Gerze to find work and now lies in the village cemetery.
28 May 2021
Factory worker Hasan Yıldırım, 31, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Factory worker Hasan Yıldırım, 31, died in Taksim
Hasan Yıldırım’s friend from Uzel Factory spoke of how Hasan, whom he describes as a good person, was studying at university while also working at the factory, and how his workmates tried to comfort him after he was shot right beside them.
27 May 2021
Laborer Mahmut Atilla Özbelen, 26, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Laborer Mahmut Atilla Özbelen, 26, died in Taksim
Zehra Şahin talks about her friend, Atilla Özbelen, with whom she worked at the Classroom Tools Manufacturing Centre, about how he was at work, his union activities, and how they went together from Ankara to the First of May rally in Istanbul.
26 May 2021
Public order police officer Nazmi Arı, 26, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Public order police officer Nazmi Arı, 26, died in Taksim
Fahrettin Arı talks about his brother, Nazmi Arı, about the failure to bring those responsible for his death to justice, and about how a village school was named after him but the name was later removed.
25 May 2021
Student Ercüment Gürkut, 26, died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Student Ercüment Gürkut, 26, died in Taksim
Author Nedim Gürsel talks of how Ercüment Gürkut, a friend from Galatasaray High School, was interested in football and poetry, was funny and intelligent, was very interested in cinema and of how they planned to carry out a project together.
24 May 2021
Laborer Hüseyin Kırkın, 23, Died in Taksim
1 MAY '77: VOICES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LOVED ONES
Laborer Hüseyin Kırkın, 23, Died in Taksim
The nephew of Hüseyin Kırkın, a Laborer at the student dormitory "Ankara Site", talks about what a fearless person his uncle was, how he could not tolerate injustice, and how upset he got when he was told not to go to the First of May.
21 May 2021
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