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Prison Uniform in New Statutory Decree

Prison Uniform in New Statutory Decree

According to the statutory decree No. 696, those who are imprisoned over “crimes committed against Constitutional order” will be brought to hearing in almond and grey jumpsuit.

25 December 2017

Compensation for Fan Who Lost His Eye with Plastic Bullet

Compensation for Fan Who Lost His Eye with Plastic Bullet

The court has ordered Yılmaz, who lost his eye with a plastic bullet fired by police, to be paid 376 thousand 879 liras. The police officer was sentenced to 6 months and 20 days in prison.

22 December 2017

Letters to Osman Kavala

Letters to Osman Kavala

HDP and CHP MPs, rights defenders, journalists and artists have prepared a diary for imprisoned businessperson Osman Kavala.

22 December 2017

Second Hearing of Trial of 7 Academics Held

Second Hearing of Trial of 7 Academics Held

Second hearings of trial of seven academics from İstanbul University and Galatasaray University are held at 32nd Heavy Penal Court.

22 December 2017

Academics Whose Second Trials Held Make Statement of Defense

Second hearings of trial of seven academics from İstanbul University and Galatasaray University are held at 32nd Heavy Penal Court.

22 December 2017 Tansu Pişkin

Call by Nuriye Gülmen for Fax Protest

Call by Nuriye Gülmen for Fax Protest

Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on hunger strike for 288 days, has made a call for State of Emergency Commission to be faxed. “Our goal is 10 thousand faxes”, Gülmen said.

21 December 2017

Imprisoned Conscientious Objector on Hunger Strike for Roboski

Imprisoned Conscientious Objector on Hunger Strike for Roboski

Conscientious objector Vasillis Yaylalı has gone on hunger strike in prison for one week due to the sixth year of Roboski massacre.

21 December 2017

Lawsuit Against Bakur Documentary Over ‘Propaganda’

Lawsuit Against Bakur Documentary Over ‘Propaganda’

Mavioğlu and Demirel, the two directors of the Bakur documentary that was screened in Batman during the resolution process, and Anter have been sued on charge of “illegal organization propaganda”.

20 December 2017

Jews in Turkey Light 8th Candle of Hanukkah for Peace

Jews in Turkey Light 8th Candle of Hanukkah for Peace

Jews in Turkey light their candles for peace on the eighth and last day of the Hanukkah. Hanukkah traditions were explained in the ceremony held in Neve Şalon Synagogue.

20 December 2017 Pınar Tarcan

Call from Judith Butler for Solidarity with Academics for Peace

Call from Judith Butler for Solidarity with Academics for Peace

In the article they have written for The Guardian, academic Judith Butler and Başak Ertür have made a call for solidarity with “Academics for Peace”.

19 December 2017

Trial of 2 Academics to Resume on April 19

Trial of 2 Academics to Resume on April 19

The trial of people who signed the declaration entitled “We Will not be a Party to This Crime” prepared by the Academics for Peace continued on its fourth day.

19 December 2017 Tansu Pişkin

Police Vehicle Severely Injures Child in Şırnak

Police Vehicle Severely Injures Child in Şırnak

4-year-old O.Ö. hit by an armored police vehicle as he was playing in front of his house has been severely injured in Turkey’s southeastern Şırnak.

19 December 2017

Police Raid People’s Law Bureau

Police Raid People’s Law Bureau

Police have raided building of People’s Law Bureau of which 16 staff have been behind bars. Lawyer Yaprak Türkmen has been taken into custody.

18 December 2017

Erdoğan Demands Censorship on Latuff’s Caricature

Erdoğan Demands Censorship on Latuff’s Caricature

President Erdoğan has demanded that Carlos Latuff’s caricatures be blocked.

18 December 2017

Suspicious Death in Custody on Parliamentary Agenda

Suspicious Death in Custody on Parliamentary Agenda

HDP’s Danış Beştaş has submitted a parliamentary inquiry about Araç who lost his life in custody in Antalya.

18 December 2017

'Which Human Rights?' Film Festival in Diyarbakır Banned by Governorship

'Which Human Rights?' Film Festival in Diyarbakır Banned by Governorship

The 9th “Which Human Rights?” Film Festival planned to take place between December 15-17 in Diyarbakır, has been banned by Diyarbakır Governorship.

15 December 2017 Bircan Değirmenci

Artist Tunç: The Accusations are Political, I Don’t Accept Them

Artist Tunç: The Accusations are Political, I Don’t Accept Them

Ferhat Tunç, who is being tried on the grounds of “making propaganda for a terror organization,” noted in his trial that the accusations were political, saying “everyone needs to have freedom of thought in this country”.

15 December 2017

Anti-State of Emergency Rally Banned in İzmir Under State of Emergency Law

Anti-State of Emergency Rally Banned in İzmir Under State of Emergency Law

The “Not State of Emergency, Emergency Democracy Rally” organized by trade associations and unions has been banned by İzmir Governorship under regulations of the State of Emergency.

15 December 2017

47th Hearing Held in Trial of Academics

47th Hearing Held in Trial of Academics

The first hearing was held for an academic, Melda Tunçay, on the third day of the trial of the peace declaration signatories.

14 December 2017

Advertisement with 104 Signatures: Reinstate Them to Their Jobs

Advertisement with 104 Signatures: Reinstate Them to Their Jobs

The advertisement published on newspapers with 104 signatures has demanded that State of Emergency Commission reinstate Gülmen and Özakça to their jobs.

14 December 2017

Curfew Declared in Kulp, Diyarbakır

Curfew Declared in Kulp, Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır Governorship has declared curfew in Kulp district on the ground that an operation will be launched.

14 December 2017

Whole Hamlet Detained in Gendarmerie Raid in Siirt

Whole Hamlet Detained in Gendarmerie Raid in Siirt

Gendarmerie raided the Erguvan / Bêlekê hamlet in Çeltikbaşı village of Siirt in southeastern Turkey and took 13 people who were in the hamlet at that moment.

13 December 2017

ECtHR: Sanctions Against Students Demanding Kurdish Lessons Violate Right To Education

ECtHR: Sanctions Against Students Demanding Kurdish Lessons Violate Right To Education

The ECtHR has ruled on the case of university students who were subjected to disciplinary investigations for demanding optional Kurdish lessons and found that sanctions against the students constituted a violation of the right to education.

12 December 2017 Ayça Söylemez

Suspects Being Heard in Trial on Reina Attack on New Year’s Eve

Suspects Being Heard in Trial on Reina Attack on New Year’s Eve

The second hearing in the trial is being held regarding the gun attack in the entertainment venue, Reina, in Ortaköy, İstanbul during new year celebrations on January 1, 2017 killing 39 people and leaving 79 others injured.

12 December 2017

Call for Release of Deniz Yücel on 300th Day of His Arrest

Call for Release of Deniz Yücel on 300th Day of His Arrest

Figures including Bono, Orhan Pamuk, Fatih Akın, Slavoj Žižek signed the petition calling for release of Deniz Yücel who has been in prison for 301 days.

11 December 2017

Human Rights Award Granted by Austria to Osman İşçi from Rights Organization

Human Rights Award Granted by Austria to Osman İşçi from Rights Organization

The Austrian League of Human Rights has granted its human rights award to İHD Secretary General İşçi. İşçi said that this award was given to the human rights movement. He couldn’t go to receive his award due to his international travel ban.

11 December 2017 Ayça Söylemez

From 10 Artists, Rights Defenders to Erdoğan: Free Kavala

From 10 Artists, Rights Defenders to Erdoğan: Free Kavala

Music professor Osborne has brought a petition prepared by 10 world-renowned artists and rights defenders demanding Kavala be freed to Turkey.

11 December 2017

Academic Visiting His Student Semih Özakça Suspended

Academic Visiting His Student Semih Özakça Suspended

Sinop University academic member Assist. Prof. Dr. İrfan Mukul has been suspended from the university for visiting his student Semih Özakça, who has been on hunger strike.

8 December 2017 Beyza Kural

Hearings of 36 Academics: No Acquittal, Hearings Adjourned

Hearings of 36 Academics: No Acquittal, Hearings Adjourned

36 of the 1,128 academics who are being tried for having signed the peace declaration of the Academics for Peace, stood trial before İstanbul Court. No academic has been acquitted. Their hearings have been adjourned.

7 December 2017 Beyza Kural,Tansu Pişkin

"Though Academics for Peace Tried Separately, One Decision Will Affect the Whole Case"

"Though Academics for Peace Tried Separately, One Decision Will Affect the Whole Case"

The hearings of the academics who put forth the claim to Peace start on December 5, 2017. Meriç Eyüboğlu said that the academics "are tried separately to be isolated".

7 December 2017 Pınar Tarcan

Peter Steudtner Awarded Quaker Peace Prize

Peter Steudtner Awarded Quaker Peace Prize

Arrested in Büyükada trial and released after 113 days of detention, Peter Steudtner has been granted Quaker Peace Prize in Germany.

6 December 2017

Demonstrations in Hakkari Banned

Demonstrations in Hakkari Banned

Hakkari Governorship has decided to ban actions such as setting up tent, opening stand and sit-in protests, and ordered that meetings, statements for the press, open and closed meetings and rallies to be held on permission.

6 December 2017