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Journalist Sued For Calling Torture Case A “Scandal”

Journalist Sued For Calling Torture Case A “Scandal”

A prosecutor launched an investigation against Milliyet newspaper reporter Kemal Göktaş for covering an article on a comparison between criminal charges of police officers suspected of torture and a relative man of torture victim woman who insulted those police officers.

4 November 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

Poetry Book Dedicated to Turkey’s Disappeared People

Poetry Book Dedicated to Turkey’s Disappeared People

Writers Union of Turkey and Human Rights Association promoted a poetry book that was compiled from 59 poets’ works dedicated on the 500th gathering of Saturday Mothers/People.

3 November 2014 Elif Akgül

Kurdish Dictionary Available on Cell Phones

Kurdish Dictionary Available on Cell Phones

A joint project initiated by KURDÎ-DER and TMMOB created a Kurdish technical term dictionary into cell phones.

3 November 2014 Salih Tekin

Policeman Advised to Stand Trial With “Possible Premeditated Murder” of Uğur Kurt

Policeman Advised to Stand Trial With “Possible Premeditated Murder” of Uğur Kurt

Istanbul 85th Assize Court overturned another court ruling on the killing of Uğur Kurt by a policeman under the charges of “neglected murder”, advising a retrial under the charge of “possible premeditated murder”.

30 October 2014

ECHR Considers Statute of Limitations As “Torture”

ECHR Considers Statute of Limitations As “Torture”

The European Court of Human Rights considered the statute of limitations ruling in Demirtaş case as ill-treatment and torture, convicted Turkey.

29 October 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

TİB Censors Gay.com

TİB Censors Gay.com

Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB) blocked gay.com, a popular LGBTI social networking website.

29 October 2014 Elif Akgül

Story Project Aims to Face the Genocide Without Prejudice

Story Project Aims to Face the Genocide Without Prejudice

The “European Integration” Non-Governmental Organization and Armedia are collecting, within the framework of the “The Turk Who Saved Me” project, stories of Armenians whose grandparent were saved by Turks in 1915.

27 October 2014 Haluk Kalafat

6 Detained After Death of 3 Soldiers

6 Detained After Death of 3 Soldiers

Following the killing of 3 guerrillas in Kars province on Thursday, 3 plain cloth Turkish soldiers were killed in Yüksekova district on Saturday, an incident that subsequently led to the detention of 6 suspects and media ban on the funeral ceremonies.

27 October 2014

Scholars For Peace in Solidarity With Saturday Mothers

Scholars For Peace in Solidarity With Saturday Mothers

Scholars For Peace, a group of academicians dedicated to the resolution of Turkey’s Kurdish problem, released a statement calling all their colleagues to be in solidarity with the Saturday Mothers of Turkey for their sit-in week 500.

23 October 2014

Artists Call For Saturday Mothers/People Week 500

Artists Call For Saturday Mothers/People Week 500

37 individuals including artists and authors made a public appeal to meet at down Istanbul on October 25 for the 500 week of Saturday Mothers/People of Turkey meeting.

21 October 2014 Beyza Kural

DBP Administrator Gravely Wounded By Canister

DBP Administrator Gravely Wounded By Canister

Semra Demir, an administrator at Democratic Regions Party, has been shut by a tear gas bomb canister during a gendarmerie intervention to villagers on watch-duty in the border with Kobane.

17 October 2014

Acquittal in “Dictator” Case: Cursing Not An Insult

Acquittal in “Dictator” Case: Cursing Not An Insult

A Turkish court acquitted defendants for saying “God damn it, PM became a dictator”. While Erdoğan also joined the case as plaintiff, prosecutor also claimed that “cursing could neither be an insult or crime”.

15 October 2014 Ayça Söylemez

“122 People Disappeared Under Military Chief Güreş”

“122 People Disappeared Under Military Chief Güreş”

Memory Center, an NGO focusing on Turkey’s disappeared people, released a report explaining the disappearance cases during the term of Doğan Güreş, Turkey’s military chief during 1990 and 1994. He died yesterday.

15 October 2014

Death Toll Rises to 35 in Kobane Protests

Death Toll Rises to 35 in Kobane Protests

The death toll related to the incidents after Kobane protests across Turkey rose to 35 while a police commissioner survived an assassination attempt and two police officers were killed in Bingöl.

10 October 2014

Gay Police Officer Case in EU Report

Gay Police Officer Case in EU Report

European Union’s Turkey 2014 Progress Report mentioned the case of Osman, a gay police officer who was expelled from his post due to his sexual orientation. “We are visible by the EU but not the Turkey’s judicial system,” Osman told bianet.

10 October 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

At Least 18 Reported Dead in Kobane Protests

At Least 18 Reported Dead in Kobane Protests

Protests condemning the ISIS advance in Kobane left at least 18 dead across Turkey. Curfew order remains in Diyarbakır province.

Cancer Patient Inmate to Return to Prison

Cancer Patient Inmate to Return to Prison

The treatment extension request of Taylan Çintay, a cancer patient inmate released for his treatment in July 2013, has been declined by the Forensics Institute.

3 October 2014 Bedri Adanır

ECHR Convicts Turkey of Violating Right to Fair Trial

ECHR Convicts Turkey of Violating Right to Fair Trial

The European Court of Human Right convicted Turkey of violating right to fair trial in the case of Cevat Soysal who was convicted to 18 years and 9 months of prison by Turkish courts of being a PKK leader.

23 September 2014 Ayça Söylemez

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

İzmir 22nd Assize Court ordered the acquittal of 27 out of 28 defendants charged with “igniting public to violating laws and insulting” during the Gezi Resistance.

23 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

Institute Releases Videos to Promote Laz Language

Institute Releases Videos to Promote Laz Language

Turkey’s Laz Language Institute released a series of videos to promote the elective Laz language courses for the elementary school level. bianet interviewed İsmail Bucaklişi from the institute.

19 September 2014 Beyza Kural

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

Issuing a verdict on the application of 14 families with Alevi background, ECHR ruled that “Turkish education system must have a basis respecting the families’ beliefs”.

18 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

Murdered journalists, jailed journalists, recent releases, attacks, threats, impediments, prosecutions and trials; ‘’defamation’’, personal rights and complaints, bans, closures, seizures, PM, ECHR, RTÜK and Gezi Resistance…

18 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

7 Public Schools Burnt Down in Cizre, Yüksekova

7 Public Schools Burnt Down in Cizre, Yüksekova

Following the sealing of 3 schools planned to teach in Kurdish, 7 public schools were burnt down in Cizre and Yüksekova districts.

17 September 2014

Youngster Dies After Checkpoint Protests in Lice

Youngster Dies After Checkpoint Protests in Lice

Abdullah Akkulu, a 19 year old protestor who was shut by the soldier gunfire and stayed in coma for 3 months, died yesterday in the southeastern district of Lice. At the day of the incident, Ramazan Baran and Baki Akdemir were also killed.

15 September 2014

18 Days of Hunger Strike Only Helps 18 Kurdish Teachers

18 Days of Hunger Strike Only Helps 18 Kurdish Teachers

Waiting for an assignment for 2 years, Kurdish-language teachers have reacted against the education ministry’s opening of only 18 permanent positions.

12 September 2014 Nilay Vardar

Victim Erdoğan, Suspect FoE

Victim Erdoğan, Suspect FoE

President Erdoğan’s lawyers filed complaints against journalists Sönmez and Dündar. In the past 6 months, a total of 52,740 liras of monetary fines and 208 years and 1 months if prison have been issued in cases where was the “victim”.

11 September 2014 Elif Akgül

Education in Kurdish Not Allowed, Army Blocks Roads

Education in Kurdish Not Allowed, Army Blocks Roads

Following the arrival of Turkish Army officials to a school intended to teach classes in Kurdish in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, villagers tok the roads which was responded by blocking of all roads by army soldiers.

11 September 2014 Yüce Yöney

New Bill Allows TIB to Control Internet Traffic Data

New Bill Allows TIB to Control Internet Traffic Data

After the passing of a new omnibus law, Turkey’s Telecommunication Authorities are now able to control internet traffic information and it will be passed onto related officials through judges - a type of information that could be only be requested within an investigation.

9 September 2014

Who is the Enemy of the Internet?

Who is the Enemy of the Internet?

bianet asked participants of İstanbul for 9th Internet Governance Forum on who the enemy of the internet is. Here are the answers.

6 September 2014 Elif Akgül

Şahbaz Receives 7 Years 9 Months 10 Days of Prison Sentence

Şahbaz Receives 7 Years 9 Months 10 Days of Prison Sentence

Police officer Ahmet Şahbaz received 7 years and 9 months of prison for shooting Ethem Sarısülük dead. An "unjust provocation" reduction has been applied to Şahbaz’s penalty.

4 September 2014

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Graduated from Kurdish Language Department, primary Kurdish teachers started an alternate hunger strike. “PM didn’t fulfill his promise. We are in the peace process and the promises should be fulfilled,” Yunus Aslan said.

27 August 2014 Nilay Vardar

While Guns Already Silent, Why Village Guards Armed?

While Guns Already Silent, Why Village Guards Armed?

Having intended to kidnap 18-year-old N.B., village guards busted a house and wounded someone seriously. Following this incident, we talked to Ahmet Sevim, President of Batman Bar Association and focused on the question “Why village guards are still armed”.

26 August 2014 Ekin Karaca