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11 leading industrial actions of 2024

11 leading industrial actions of 2024

11 industrial actions from the year 2024, from food industry workers to farmer actions, from textile workers to miners...

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IPA research: 55,9% of people in Istanbul fail to pay credit card bill

IPA research: 55,9% of people in Istanbul fail to pay credit card bill

The Istanbul Planning Agency (IPA) has published research stating that the primary problems of the people of Istanbul are the economy, traffic and the anticipated earthquake. 40% said they barely made a living.

Syria | Teachers in Idlib on strike for their rights

Syria | Teachers in Idlib on strike for their rights

Teachers protesting against the HTS government paying only half of their October and November salaries have quit work demanding that their salaries are paid in full.

Buldan and Önder: We are much more hopeful compared to previous processes

Buldan and Önder: We are much more hopeful compared to previous processes

Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) members of parliament Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder stated that they would not be providing further information to the press regarding their meeting with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan due to the “sensitivity of the process”.

30 December 2024

New development in İstiklal Street bombing: Two detained

New development in İstiklal Street bombing: Two detained

Police has detained two people who are claimed to have smuggled bomber Ahlam al-Bashir into Turkey and brought him to Istanbul. 6 people died and 99 were injured at the bomb-attack, and the court case related to the bombing ended in April 2024.

30 December 2024

Öcalan: This is an era of peace, democracy and fraternity for Turkey and the region

Öcalan: This is an era of peace, democracy and fraternity for Turkey and the region

DEM Party announces that PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan proposes “constructive solutions to counter the imposed scenarios of a bleak future”.

29 December 2024

Attack on New Year’s Market in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

Attack on New Year’s Market in Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

Odunpazarı Mayor Kazım Kurt stated that the attacker shouted “This is a sharia country”, damaged stands, decorative lighting, tents and tables and was detained by police.

30 December 2024

Christmas service at the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Edirne

Christmas service at the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Edirne

The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Amphilochios and priest Atanas Sultanov presided over the singing of hymns describing the life of Jesus and the reading of prayers, while the congregation lit candles and prayed.

30 December 2024

Ministry of Justice permits İmralı meeting

Ministry of Justice permits İmralı meeting

The Ministry of Justice has positively responded to the application the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) made to meet with the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. The meeting could take place tomorrow if weather permits.

27 December 2024

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SADAT Chairperson Tanrıverdi: Kılıçdaroğlu’s assets sequestrated

SADAT Chairperson Tanrıverdi: Kılıçdaroğlu’s assets sequestrated

SADAT Board of Directors Chairperson has claimed that Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the former chairperson of the main opposition party CHP (Republican People’s Party), has lost a 1-million-lira action for damages, and that all his properties and bank accounts have been sequestrated because he failed to pay the compensation for a year and a half.

27 December 2024

BDS Turkey turns 15

THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS MOVEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL

BDS Turkey turns 15

Founded on 27 December 2009, on the first anniversary of Israel’s ‘Cast Lead’ attack on Gaza, BDS Turkey has completed its 15th year in the struggle.

27 December 2024

All the same answers from Minister to questions on Training Center accidents

All the same answers from Minister to questions on Training Center accidents

Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin gave the same answers to the parliamentary questions on Vocational Training Centre accidents presented by five members of parliament from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) and the Felicity Party (SAADET).

27 December 2024

Tuğçe Yılmaz

The struggle in Turkey for ecocide to be recognized as a crime

The struggle in Turkey for ecocide to be recognized as a crime

Melis Tantan of the Ecocide Law Citizens’ Initiative spoke to bianet about the struggle that continues to work towards preventing environmental damage.

27 December 2024 Tuğçe Yılmaz

Second hearing in Narin Güran case begins

Second hearing in Narin Güran case begins

Witnesses heard at the second hearing of the Narin Güran case, the 8-year-old child murdered in Diyarbakır.

26 December 2024 Evrim Deniz

Municipality car park in Beyoğlu evacuated due to structural deformation

Municipality car park in Beyoğlu evacuated due to structural deformation

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has issued a statement regarding the structural deformation observed in the columns of the Tepebaşı Car Park in the Beyoğlu district, adding that the necessary repairs would swiftly be carried out.

26 December 2024

Christmas services in churches across Turkey

Christmas services in churches across Turkey

Christmas has been celebrated at services held in churches across Turkey, with calls made for peace and unity. From Istanbul to Mersin and from Hatay to Ankara, the Bible was recited, prayers were said and hymns were sung.

25 December 2024

Christmas service at Church of Saint Peter in Hatay

Christmas service at Church of Saint Peter in Hatay

The Church of Saint Peter has great historical and religious importance. The church is a site of pilgrimage for Christians.

25 December 2024

Tuğçe Yılmaz

What is eco-anxiety?

What is eco-anxiety?

Eco-anxiety is a term that defines the type of anxiety that develops due to ecological crises. In the face of environmental problems, it is critical to take small steps to alleviate anxiety and find a way to access accurate information.

25 December 2024 Tuğçe Yılmaz

18 detentions in street protest against new low minimum wage

18 detentions in street protest against new low minimum wage

Members of the Hakkımı Ver [‘Give Me My Right’] Platform marched against the announcement of the new minimum wage which rose at a lower rate than annual inflation. Workers, opening a banner on İstiklal Street, the main thoroughfare of the central Beyoğlu district, shouted the slogan “Let’s see Vedat (Işıkhan, Minister of Labour and Social Security) live on this minimum wage” and were detained.

25 December 2024

Ministers in Balıkesir: Explosion site last inspected in August

Ministers in Balıkesir: Explosion site last inspected in August

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has stated that a seven-person panel of experts has been formed and that four public prosecutors coordinated by a deputy head prosecutor will handle the investigation.

25 December 2024

Atakan Asılbay

Surrounded by mines and plants, people of Artvin continue their environmental struggle

Surrounded by mines and plants, people of Artvin continue their environmental struggle

About half of the Black Sea province's agricutlural land and pstures have been marked as mining license areas.

25 December 2024 Atakan Asılbay

children's library

IPS Communication Foundation/bianet continues its rights-based journalism with the "BİA Children's Library" with the aim of giving more space to and disseminating the voices of children and youth.

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