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Turkey allows police to use army equipment during social unrests

Turkey allows police to use army equipment during social unrests

A regulation about the moveable assets belonging to the army, the police and the intelligence agency has been amended.

'Resign if you have honor': Boğaziçi students continue to protest new rector

'Resign if you have honor': Boğaziçi students continue to protest new rector

Both students and academics protested the new rector in separate demonstrations.

'Rectors with low academic qualifications harm universities' development'

'Rectors with low academic qualifications harm universities' development'

The newly appointed rector of Boğaziçi University, Melih Bulu, doesn't have high academic qualifications, says Prof. Karadağ, who studies the academic success of Turkey's universities.

7 January 2021 Ruken Tuncel

Kurdish interpreters couldn’t understand Kurdish

Kurdish interpreters couldn’t understand Kurdish

Arrested and dismissed Co-Mayor of Batman Mehmet Demir made his defense in Kurdish. As three Kurdish interpreters were unable to interpret his speech “because he was speaking in academic Kurdish,” Demir refused to make defense.

Constitutional Court gives third ruling of right violation for Şahin Alpay

Constitutional Court gives third ruling of right violation for Şahin Alpay

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has, for the third time, concluded that journalist Şahin Alpay’s “right to personal liberty and security” has been violated. This last application was about the house arrest given to the journalist in 2018.

7 January 2021 Ayça Söylemez

Ministry inspectors find corruption at disaster management agency

Ministry inspectors find corruption at disaster management agency

Equipment bought for millions of lira could not be found in the agency's depots, according to an inspection report.

Gendarmerie intelligence officer Veysal Şahin detained

Gendarmerie intelligence officer Veysal Şahin detained

An arrest warrant was issued against the then Trabzon Gendarmerie Intelligence officers Veysal Şahin and Volkan Şahin in Hrant Dink murder case. Veysal Şahin has been caught in Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Adana.

‘Turkey also hit by a pandemic of injustice in 2020’

‘Turkey also hit by a pandemic of injustice in 2020’

Main opposition CHP Vice Chair Muharrem Erkek has prepared a report entitled “2020 Inventory of Injustice in Turkey.”

Constitutional Court finds Pastor Brunson’s application ‘inadmissible’

Constitutional Court finds Pastor Brunson’s application ‘inadmissible’

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has concluded that the arrest of Pastor Brunson and his release to house arrest “were relying on factual bases”. The Court has found his application “inadmissible.”

7 January 2021 Ayça Söylemez

Boğaziçi rector appointment shows 'trustee policies not limited to HDP municipalities'

Boğaziçi rector appointment shows 'trustee policies not limited to HDP municipalities'

Ruling the country through trustees is becoming a dominant method used by the government, says Sancar.

Second indictment against journalists Yıldız and Dükel

Second indictment against journalists Yıldız and Dükel

Journalists Müyesser Yıldız and İsmail Dükel have been indicted for “successively obtaining documents about state security.” This second indictment has been merged with the file of the ongoing main trial.

Advisor to Boğaziçi University President resigns

Advisor to Boğaziçi University President resigns

Resigning from office amid protests against the appointment of university president, Prof. Zafer Yenal has said, “Let’s keep working harder for goodness and beauty so that we will not see a university with its gates handcuffed again.”

Minister Soylu: Police did the right thing

Minister Soylu: Police did the right thing

Interior Minister Soylu has defended the police intervention at Boğaziçi University: “The Turkish police, who did not allow the terror-related illegal groups that are not from Boğaziçi and tried to enter the university, did the right thing.”

Boğaziçi students in Kadıköy: 'Release our friends from detention'

Boğaziçi students in Kadıköy: 'Release our friends from detention'

Students of Boğaziçi University have been protesting the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the university president by Erdoğan. The Boğaziçi Solidarity previously made a call for a protest demonstration and press statement in Kadıköy at 4 p.m. today.

6 January 2021 Dilek Şen

Hrant Dink murder case: Arrest warrant against 2 gendarmerie officers

Hrant Dink murder case: Arrest warrant against 2 gendarmerie officers

The trial of public officers over the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink continued in İstanbul today. As there is evidence that they knew about the murder beforehand, arrest warrants have been issued against two gendarmerie intelligence officers.

6 January 2021 Hikmet Adal

Question on ‘war crimes’ returned to MP because of ‘personal opinion’

Question on ‘war crimes’ returned to MP because of ‘personal opinion’

HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the UN report documenting the war crimes and rights violations in Syria. The MP’s question has been returned to him on the grounds of “personal opinion.”

Bulu waves from window, students demand his resignation

Bulu waves from window, students demand his resignation

Students are still protesting Prof. Melih Bulu, who has been appointed as the president of Boğaziçi University, one of the most most prestigious universities in Turkey, by President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

CHP Chair slams Erdoğan over appointment of university president

CHP Chair slams Erdoğan over appointment of university president

“Erdoğan can appoint whomever he wants as a university president. His only condition is that he or she is from his party,” says main opposition CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu amid criticisms about the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the Boğaziçi president.

Bulu: Our students, academics don’t see the big picture

Bulu: Our students, academics don’t see the big picture

Appointed by President Erdoğan as the new president of Boğaziçi University, Bulu has said, “If we will become one of the 10 leading countries of the world, Boğaziçi is a must here. Our students, academics perhaps don’t see the big picture.”

CHP İstanbul head faces up to 10 years in prison over tweets about Erdoğan aide's house

CHP İstanbul head faces up to 10 years in prison over tweets about Erdoğan aide's house

The Presidency's communications director had filed a complaint against Kaftancıoğlu after the municipality demolished some small structures in the yard of his house.

‘From Boğaziçi to METU, we don’t accept trustees’

‘From Boğaziçi to METU, we don’t accept trustees’

While several students are still detained for having protested the appointment of Prof. Bulu as the new president of Boğaziçi University, the students of Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara have expressed solidarity with Boğaziçi students.

Operation against members of Land Forces

Operation against members of Land Forces

Detention warrants have been issued against 29 people, including colonels and majors; 22 people have been detained.

Journalist Can Ataklı investigated after saying Erdoğan 'won't go with an election'

Journalist Can Ataklı investigated after saying Erdoğan 'won't go with an election'

The journalist was accused of "implying a coup attempt against the government" after a one-minute excerpt from a video on his YouTube channel was circulated on social media.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court says strip search is ‘ill treatment’

Turkey’s Constitutional Court says strip search is ‘ill treatment’

The Constitutional Court has concluded that the strip search of a woman at the tea room of a police station violated the prohibition of ill treatment on procedural grounds.

AKP spokesperson defends Erdoğan's controversial appointment to Boğaziçi University

AKP spokesperson defends Erdoğan's controversial appointment to Boğaziçi University

The appointment has sparked outrage among the students and the academics of the university.

Objections to defendant’s release rejected in ‘Leyla Aydemir murder’ case

Objections to defendant’s release rejected in ‘Leyla Aydemir murder’ case

In the lawsuit filed into the death of 4-year-old Leyla Aydemir, the objections of the Public Prosecutor and the UCİM association against the release of paternal uncle has been rejected. Defendant Aydemir was previously given life sentence.

5 January 2021 Ayşegül Özbek

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu: I stand with students, academics of Boğaziçi

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu: I stand with students, academics of Boğaziçi

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Metropolitan Mayor of İstanbul, has expressed his solidarity with the students and academics of Boğaziçi University in their "righteous struggle" against the new university president appointed by President Erdoğan.

Dismissed Co-Mayor of Kars faces up to 15 years in prison

Dismissed Co-Mayor of Kars faces up to 15 years in prison

Arrested on October 8, 2020, dismissed Co-Mayor of Kars Alaca has been indicted and the indictment has been accepted by the heavy penal court. Among the criminal evidence brought against her is her attendance in a folk dance with a Kurdish song.

5 January 2021 Ruken Tuncel

Police attack students with pepper gas at Boğaziçi University

Police attack students with pepper gas at Boğaziçi University

Students have gathered in the South Campus of Boğaziçi University in İstanbul and protested the appointment of Prof. Bulu, also a former MP candidate for nomination from the ruling AKP, as the University President. Police have intervened into the protest.

4 January 2021 Dilek Şen

‘SMA campaigns make the state look weak,’ says Health Minister Koca

‘SMA campaigns make the state look weak,’ says Health Minister Koca

Several MPs, artists, physicians and scientists have been campaigning on social media, demanding that the three quarters of Turkey’s 2020 grand New Year lottery prize transferred to the Wealth Fund be used for the treatment of children with SMA.

Investigation against former CHP MP over his remarks about veiled judges

Investigation against former CHP MP over his remarks about veiled judges

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an ex officio investigation against Fikri Sağlar on charge of “inciting the public to enmity and hatred.”

‘Government deals with Canal İstanbul, not with public health’

‘Government deals with Canal İstanbul, not with public health’

Main opposition CHP MP Tekin has criticized the government over Minister of Environment and Urbanization Kurum's announcement that “2021 will be a year when the Canal İstanbul project will start and proceed quickly.”