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“No Legal Base for Investigations into Academics”

“No Legal Base for Investigations into Academics”

Prof. Dr. Akdeniz has commented on investigations launched into academics signing declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

5 February 2016 Beyza Kural

Ambulance Returns 300 Meters Away from Basement in Cizre

Ambulance Returns 300 Meters Away from Basement in Cizre

Medical team departing from Şırnak Municipality to reach the wounded awaiting help had to return because of shootings.

4 February 2016

Demirtaş: Let Us Go to Basement to Retrieve Wounded

Demirtaş: Let Us Go to Basement to Retrieve Wounded

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş telling they will themselves go to basement to provide aid for the wounded said, “We hope the people in there are still alive”.

4 February 2016

Solidarity with Academics Hindered in Yıldız Technical University

Solidarity with Academics Hindered in Yıldız Technical University

Eğitim-Sen members trying to enter Yıldız Technical University for solidarity with signatory academics during their plea who face investigations haven’t been allowed inside the campus.

4 February 2016

ECtHR Refuses Interlocutory Injunction for the Basement

ECtHR Refuses Interlocutory Injunction for the Basement

ECtHR has rejected the request for an interlocutory injunction for the injured stuck in the basement in Cizre but has provided to take all kinds of measure necessary for their health situation and treatment.

4 February 2016

Alternate Hunger Strike of HDP MPs on 9th Day

Alternate Hunger Strike of HDP MPs on 9th Day

Hunger strike started by three HDP MPs aiming to have wounded in Cizre receive aid continues on its ninth day with the third team.

4 February 2016

Support for Academics from 1,601 Colleagues Worldwide

Support for Academics from 1,601 Colleagues Worldwide

1,601 academics of whom 1,395 are from the US and 206 from other countries have declared their support for Academics for Peace Initiative.

4 February 2016

Curfew Lifted in 9 Neighborhoods of Sur

Curfew Lifted in 9 Neighborhoods of Sur

Curfew has been lifted in nine neighborhoods of Sur district, it is still in effect in six neighborhoods.

3 February 2016

Jiyan Correspondent Hayri Tunç Arrested

Jiyan Correspondent Hayri Tunç Arrested

Jiyan.org correspondent Hayri Tunç has been arrested on charges of “propagandizing for the terrorist organization” within his sharings on social media.

3 February 2016

Soldier Killed in Sur

Soldier Killed in Sur

A soldier wounded by YDG-H members' shooting in Sur under curfew has lost his life.

3 February 2016

Acquittal in First Hearing of Exam Question on Öcalan

Acquittal in First Hearing of Exam Question on Öcalan

Assist. Prof. Dr. Barış Ünlü tried on charges of “propagandizing for terror” and “praising crime and criminal” because of the exam question he prepared has been acquitted in the first hearing.

3 February 2016

Entire Sur under Curfew

Entire Sur under Curfew

Curfew has also been declared in the four remaining neighbourhoods of Sur which had not been under curfew yet.

3 February 2016

Health Workers Heading to Cizre: We Do What is Required by the Hippocratic Oath

Health Workers Heading to Cizre: We Do What is Required by the Hippocratic Oath

Şeyhmus Gökalp, a member of the voluntary health workers trying to arrive at Cizre has called on the MPs who have taken the hippocratic oath and reminded them of “the right to medical treatment”.

2 February 2016

Trial of Öcalan Question Starts

Trial of Öcalan Question Starts

The first trial of Assist. Prof. Dr. Barış Ünlü indicted for his exam question starts tomorrow.

2 February 2016 Beyza Kural

İHD: 61 Children Targeted by Security Forces Die in Conflict Zone in 2015

İHD: 61 Children Targeted by Security Forces Die in Conflict Zone in 2015

On its report of Children’s Rights Violations in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia in 2015, İHD has announced that children’s rights violations have increased more than ever experienced before.

2 February 2016

'We are Ready to Save Those in Cizre if You won't'

'We are Ready to Save Those in Cizre if You won't'

132 figures among whomst are Kadir İnanır, Murathan Mungan, Tarık Ziya Ekinci, Vedat Türkali, Rakel Dink have called on state authorities for the wounded to be taken into hospital: "We are ready to save them if you won't".

2 February 2016

HDP MPs' Hunger Strike Taken Over by Second Team

HDP MPs' Hunger Strike Taken Over by Second Team

A second team has taken over the hunger strike initiated by three MPs from Peoples’ Democratic Party requiring to provide help for the injured in Cizre. The hunger strike will continue in rotation until it is achieved to bring the injured and dead to the hospital.

2 February 2016

Confidentiality Order on File of Arrested Students

Confidentiality Order on File of Arrested Students

Attorney Boğatekin has said they couldn’t access to files of three arrested students because of confidentiality order, their right to education is being violated and that they will object the order.

2 February 2016

‘Kobani’ Attack on Ferhat Tunç’s Facebook Page

‘Kobani’ Attack on Ferhat Tunç’s Facebook Page

The management of Ferhat Tunç’s Fan Page has been taken over from him following the promotion of his album Kobani in three languages featured on the Fan Page.

1 February 2016 Elif Akgül

Latest Reports from Wounded in Cizre: We’re Under Debris

Latest Reports from Wounded in Cizre: We’re Under Debris

Meral Danış Beştaş releasing the last contact with the wounded awaiting treatment in Cizre has declared that an operation has been launched on the house where they are taking shelter, and couldn’t have received any information for the past 48 hours.

1 February 2016

Boat Carrying Refugees Sinks in Ayvacık, 33 Dead

Boat Carrying Refugees Sinks in Ayvacık, 33 Dead

The boat carrying refugees from Ayvacık to Lesbos has sunk. 33 persons have lost their lives, 75 others rescued. The search for survivors continues.

1 February 2016

Voluntary Health Workers Stopped in İdil on Way to Cizre

Voluntary Health Workers Stopped in İdil on Way to Cizre

A team of nine doctors and four nurses from TTB and SES having departed to help the injured taking shelter in the basement in Cizre for nine days, have reportedly been stopped.

1 February 2016

Reconstruction in Silopi Following Curfew

Reconstruction in Silopi Following Curfew

The municipality determining damage in 350 houses following curfew and operations in Silopi, has formed damage determination committee for reconstruction.

1 February 2016

Support for 'Academics for Peace' from Times Higher Education

Support for 'Academics for Peace' from Times Higher Education

Support letter signed by as many as 500 academics from over 20 countries for Peace for Academics has been issued in The Times’ weekly supplement, the Times Higher Education.

1 February 2016

2 Soldiers Killed in Sur

2 Soldiers Killed in Sur

Two soldiers have lost their lives in the clash between security forces and Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement in Diyarbakır’s Sur district where the curfew continues.

1 February 2016

3 Security Officers in Cizre, Another in Sur Killed, 4 Others Injured

3 Security Officers in Cizre, Another in Sur Killed, 4 Others Injured

In an attack in Cudi neighbourhood of Cizre district of Şırnak province under curfew, one soldier and a police officer have lost their lives. In another armed conflict occurred in the evening hours, another police officer has lost his live.

1 February 2016

Investigation into 91 Academics from İstanbul, Yıldız Technical Universities

Investigation into 91 Academics from İstanbul, Yıldız Technical Universities

İstanbul University has reasoned the investigation as “signing a declaration which accuses the state of massacring whereas Yıldız Technical University accused the signatories of acting in a way degrading the state.

29 January 2016

MPs on Hunger Strike: Don’t Hinder Ambulances

MPs on Hunger Strike: Don’t Hinder Ambulances

Three HDP MPs entering third day of the hunger strike by demanding wounded and bodies stuck in a basement in Cizre to be transferred have called for to not hinder ambulances to set off to carry out the transfer.

29 January 2016

Support for Academics for Peace by Colleagues from US

Support for Academics for Peace by Colleagues from US

15 academics from the US have called for putting an end to the clashes, pointed out to the importance of freedom of expression and declared their support for the Academics for Peace.

29 January 2016

Search of Workplaces, Houses of 6 Signatory Academics

Search of Workplaces, Houses of 6 Signatory Academics

Search has been made in Bolu province of house and faculty rooms of six academics signing petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

29 January 2016 Beyza Kural

Turkey Ranks First in Violation of Freedom of Expression before ECtHR

Turkey Ranks First in Violation of Freedom of Expression before ECtHR

According to the 2015 statistics of ECtHR, Turkey has been convicted 79 times of violation of human rights. Most complaints have been brought against Turkey regarding violation of freedom of expression.

29 January 2016

'Children of Sur Experienced War'

'Children of Sur Experienced War'

Poster hanging on the building has photos of children killed, which reminds that the war knows no law.

29 January 2016 Vecdi Erbay