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Coal-Fired Power Plants Choke Zonguldak

Coal-Fired Power Plants Choke Zonguldak

Another coal-fired thermal power plant is about to completed in Zonguldak where there are already three power plants, residents say “We are the ones inhaling the poison but it is others who benefit”.

18 November 2015 Nilay Vardar

Call for Judicial System that doesn’t Jail Children

Call for Judicial System that doesn’t Jail Children

Rights organizations and trade associations have reacted against juvenile prisons planned to be built, and that called for juvenile judicial system that implements alternative methods rather than prisons.

17 November 2015

Sustainable Life Film Festival Questions Our Civilization

Sustainable Life Film Festival Questions Our Civilization

Sustainable Life Film Festival to face us once again with contradictions of our planet and the life we lead.

13 November 2015

"R.O.M., Rights of Minorities"

"R.O.M., Rights of Minorities"

The Roma, Sinti, Kalé, the Manouches and Romanichels are about 16 million worldwide, including 12 million in Europe, and suffer severe discrimination, continued violations of their fundamental rights and many racist attacks in all countries that they are settled in.

5 November 2015

Little Prince

Little Prince

The movie Little Prince reads most of the book aloud and doesn’t confine itself to the book, some parts of the book don’t take part in the movie and it is inexcusable in my opinion.

27 October 2015 Aziz Yağan

Perpetrators of Lynching Attempt against Roma People Released

Perpetrators of Lynching Attempt against Roma People Released

31 people who involved in lynching attempts against Roma people two years ago have been released. Perpetrators are expected to be sued for incitement to animosity and hostility.

23 October 2015 Nilay Vardar

Stray Dogs Stuck in Turkish Bath for 8 Months

Stray Dogs Stuck in Turkish Bath for 8 Months

Many stray dogs are stuck in the heating system of a Turkish bath in İstanbul. It is thought that stray dogs got sick in the sunless and boxy place and lost their eyesight.

23 October 2015 Alican Eralp

Suspect of Ankara Massacre Claimed One of the ISIS Emirs

Suspect of Ankara Massacre Claimed One of the ISIS Emirs

It was claimed that one of the perpetrators of Ankara Massacre was ISIS’s Emir of Antep province in Turkey.

22 October 2015

Not an Opponent but a Sociopath

Not an Opponent but a Sociopath

To start a witch-hunt and to label people as “sociopaths” and even existing companies that benefit from it, can make a human crazy.

22 October 2015 Özgür Erbaş

Greenpeace: Judge Nuclear Power Plants not Peaceful Protests

Greenpeace: Judge Nuclear Power Plants not Peaceful Protests

Greenpeace reminded 8 anti-nuclear activists would be put on trial and the protests were a part of freedom of expression.

21 October 2015

“Attacks in Kırşehir Couldn’t Create Fear and Intimidation”

“Attacks in Kırşehir Couldn’t Create Fear and Intimidation”

Education and Science Workers' Union President told the buildings which were attacked on September 8 will now being rebuilt by collaboration.

21 October 2015 Beyza Kural

Vegan Consumption Guide

Vegan Consumption Guide

Here is a comprehensive vegan guide from cosmetics to clothing, and cleaning products.

21 October 2015 Alican Eralp

Nine Common Misinformation on Schizophrenia

Nine Common Misinformation on Schizophrenia

In the exhibition “Let Us not Overlook - Journey of Schizophrenia from Prehistory to Modern-Day”, nine common misinformation on schizophrenia has been compiled.

20 October 2015

Journey Towards History of Schizophrenia

Journey Towards History of Schizophrenia

“When was the schizophrenia given its name first?”, “where does the term asylum come from” and answers to many other questions lie in “Let Us Not Overlook - Journey of Schizophrenia from Prehistory to Modern-Day” exhibition.

20 October 2015

Explosion Area in Ankara Named “Democracy Square”

Explosion Area in Ankara Named “Democracy Square”

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Council decided to name the explosion are in front of Ankara Train Station “Democracy Square”.

16 October 2015

Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs: No Efforts to Build Nuclear in İğneada

Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs: No Efforts to Build Nuclear in İğneada

Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs, Veysel Eroğlu refuting Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, has said there is no effort nor application to build nuclear power plant in İğneada.

16 October 2015

Forensic Expert: DNA Results may Come Out Even In A Day

Forensic Expert: DNA Results may Come Out Even In A Day

Forensic Expert Prof. Dr. Ümit Biçer who was one of the investigators of crime scene of Ankara bombing told how the evidences are collected and how the identities of the perpetrators and victims are found out.

15 October 2015 Ayça Söylemez

Suicide Attacks Caused by Hostility, not by Psychological Disorder

Suicide Attacks Caused by Hostility, not by Psychological Disorder

Psychiatrist Ayşe Devrim Çıngı Başterzi has told bianet about the psychology of suicide bombers: “A suicide bomber knows he/she destroys plenty of people but perceives all those people as enemy.”

15 October 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

France Dispenses with Plant in İskenderun

France Dispenses with Plant in İskenderun

French public company, Engie, has dispensed with Ada Thermal Plant following people struggling against it in İskenderun

15 October 2015

Dr. İpekyüz: We Should Commonize Our Pain to Avoid Trauma

Dr. İpekyüz: We Should Commonize Our Pain to Avoid Trauma

Dr. Necdet İpekyüz indicates disasters firstly create shocks and then make people angry, worried and hopeless; if there is solidarity and the sorrow is shared, the anger diminishes and gives way to the mourning.

15 October 2015 Ekin Karaca

Madımak* Survivor Elif Dumanlı Wrote: Diaries of 93

Madımak* Survivor Elif Dumanlı Wrote: Diaries of 93

Director of Carina’s Diary has left the criticisms unanswered hiding behind the concept of fiction. Well, then wouldn’t it be fair to ask why did you use real footage if this movie was not a documentary but fictional?

15 October 2015 Elif Dumanlı

Let Alone Building Nuclear, You Cannot Touch a Single Deep Spot

Let Alone Building Nuclear, You Cannot Touch a Single Deep Spot

WWF-Turkey Conservation of Nature Director Kalem, WWF-Turkey President Türkkan and Akgül from Defense of Northern Forests (KOS) have explained why a nuclear power station must not be built.

14 October 2015

A Corner in the World Begins Today

A Corner in the World Begins Today

A Corner in the World consisting dance, theater and music shows begins today.

14 October 2015

Turkish Medical Association: 105 Dead and 30 Gravely Wounded

Turkish Medical Association: 105 Dead and 30 Gravely Wounded

TTB President Beyazıt İlhan stated confirmed the death toll is 105 and 30 of 53 people are gravely wounded.

13 October 2015

Stories of Those Who Lost Their Lives in Ankara

Stories of Those Who Lost Their Lives in Ankara

We share the stories that we could find of the ones to call for peace in Ankara.

13 October 2015

The Police Attack Ferry-Goers in İstanbul Protesting Ankara Bombing

The Police Attack Ferry-Goers in İstanbul Protesting Ankara Bombing

The police have attacked people who wanted to board Kadıköy-Eminönü ferry in order to protest Ankara bombing in Beyazıt district of İstanbul.

13 October 2015

DİHA News Director: The More Oppression Increases the More Solidarity Hardens

DİHA News Director: The More Oppression Increases the More Solidarity Hardens

Bianet talked to journalists Çelik and Taşan from Diyarbakır bureau of Dicle News Agency which has been blocked 24 times about oppressions.

13 October 2015 Elif Akgül

#HayatıDurduruyoruz* Protests in Turkey

#HayatıDurduruyoruz* Protests in Turkey

Following the bomb attack on Peace Rally in Ankara, nationwide strikes and protests of suspending life are being held.

12 October 2015

HDP Deputy Asks Parliamentary Question about Hate Speech in School Books

HDP Deputy Asks Parliamentary Question about Hate Speech in School Books

HDP Mardin deputy Mehmet Aslan asked a parliamentary question about marginalizing and discriminating expressions in Turkish Language Association against Arabs.

Perpetrators of Journalist Ahmet Hakan Testify

Perpetrators of Journalist Ahmet Hakan Testify

Journalist Hakan’s perpetrators stated to the police they were offered 29, 850 Euros to attack him and the instructions were given by a state man. However, the perpetrators changed their testimonies at the court.

15 Politicians from HDP Arrested

15 Politicians from HDP Arrested

15 of 51 politicians from HDP who had been detained four days before in İstanbul were arrested this morning.

“Our Children Grow Up in Environment in which Violence Becomes Ordinary”

“Our Children Grow Up in Environment in which Violence Becomes Ordinary”

Platform of Children and Assertion of Their Rights has pointed out that there isn’t the required safe environment in Turkey for the children to be able to use their rights.