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122 Cancer Patients Across Turkey's Prisons
The Ministry of Justice explained 122 cancer patients are in prison. The ministry also mentioned they had taken 13,980 complaint applications from the prisoners, their relatives and various authorities since 2002.
4 July 2014
70 Prisons House “Sponged Rooms” in Turkey
Turkey's Justice Minister admitted that there were sponged rooms in 70 prisons. These rooms are notorious in press for its torture videos. Sponged rooms are being watched for 24 hours and the rooms’ toilets are not surrounded.
3 July 2014
Ayça Söylemez
Supreme Court of Appeals Ratifies Kuray’s Life Sentence
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals announced its verdict on Sarp Kuray, a convict who has been sentenced to life despite ECHR ruling that his trial wasn’t held fairly. Kuray was sentenced to life again.
2 July 2014
Sivas Massacre Victims Remembered
A group of activists marched to Madımak Hotel in the eastern province of Sivas to commemorate the killing of 35 intellectuals in 1993.
2 July 2014
30 Released, 2 Declined in KCK Diyarbakır Case
Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court released 30 defendants yesterday while declining the release of two as “PKK still resumed its activities”.
2 July 2014
Long Term Inmates Apply For Suspension After Sledgehammer Ruling
Hasan Polat and Sami Özbil, two inmates who have been jailed for 23 and 16 years respectively despite ECHR verdict on “lack of fair trial”, have applied for their suspension of arrest term, saying that the recent Sledgehammer ruling on retrial must set example.
30 June 2014
No Therapy But Torture in Turkey's Sanatoriums
Having visited sanatoriums in Turkey for two years, RUHISAK reported the violation of rights. The only solution for fixing these places is to change the mentality which does not see the patients as individuals.
27 June 2014
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
ECHR: Kumkapı Removal Centre Is “Inhumane”
ECHR found Turkey guilty of violating the “ban of torture and ill-treatment” in the case of Zalim Yarashonen, a Russian citizen who had been kept in Kumkapı Removal Centre in Istanbul for six months.
27 June 2014
Ayça Söylemez
TİHV, İHD: 5,848 Subjected to Police Violence
Human Rights Association (IHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV) issued a joint press release at IHD Istanbul Headquarters on 26 June - the International Day in support of Victims of Torture.
27 June 2014
Pınar Ağabeyoğlu
Human Rights Activists Arrive in Ankara For Sick Inmates
Members of Human Rights Association will march to Turkey’s Parliament and meet authorities today to demand the liberation of sick prisoners.
27 June 2014
4 Released in KCK Case Including Journalist
Siirt 1st High Criminal Court released 4 defendants within KCK case including Abdullah Çetin, a report from DIHA.
26 June 2014
Constitutional Court: Öcalan's Right Was Violated
Constitutional Court ruled that Öcalan's right was violated when his book was seized and burnt in the process of publishing.
25 June 2014
“Yıldırım Verdict Must Pave the Way For KCK Defendants”
bianet interviewed HDP Assembly member Meral Danış Beştaş on the retrial order of Aziz Yıldırım due to the closure of Turkey’s Special-Duty Courts. She said the same should apply for KCK defendants.
25 June 2014
Ekin Karaca
Activists to Walk to Ankara For Sick Inmates
Members of Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch Prison Commission will start a march to Ankara in order to raise awareness on sick inmates and urge for their immediate release.
23 June 2014
“Punishing Two Generals Doesn’t Confront Us with Military Coup”
Of his 60-year long life, Tahir Canan spent 32 years in prison and witnessed the most serious aspects of September 12, Turkey’s 3rd military coup in 1980. bianet interviewed Canan on the life sentence rulings on two generals Evren and Şahinkaya.
20 June 2014
Ekin Karaca
Constitutional Court Finds “Right Violation” For Hanefi Avcı
Turkey’s Constitutional Court responded to the individual complaint of Hanefi Avcı, a former police commissioner currently jailed within Devrimci Karargah case, ruling that his long arrest and trial periods committed a violation.
19 June 2014
Former Generals Sentenced to Life For 1980 Military Coup
Ankara 10th High Criminal Court convicted former general Kenan Evren and Tahsin Şahinkaya to life for their involvement in the 1980 Military Coup. The verdict was issued after the opinion of the prosecutor.
18 June 2014
Commemoration for Berkin Elvan in Okmeydanı
A commemoration was held in Istanbul’s Okmeydanı neighborhood for the first injury anniversary of Berkin Elvan, a 15 year old boy who was died after a comatose of 269 days due to a police gas bomb canister.
16 June 2014
İbrahim Aras, a 15 y.o. Protestor, Dies in Adana
According to eyewitnesses, İbrahim Aras, 15, died last night after hitting his head due to an object fired by a police tank during a protest in the southern district of Seyhan.
16 June 2014
One Suspect Arrested For Taking Down Flag
A court arrested an alleged collaborator in the investigation into the demonstrator that took down Turkey’s flag in Diyarbakır 2nd Air Force Command.
12 June 2014
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A Guerrilla Speaks Up: Mountains and Childhood
What deceives children is the course of this society, in my opinion. It is the state itself, which provides neither a future, nor the space for freedom or democracy, that deceives.
11 June 2014
Ruken Şahan
Cemevi Shooting in Antep
A motorcycled assailant opened fire on the crowd attending a funeral service in a cemevi in Antep province. Three were injured in the event.
11 June 2014
Flag Take-Down Demonstrations, Attacks
While the taking down of the flag in Diyarbakır led to demonstrations in the name of respecting the flag in certain provinces, the reaction to the flag in certain places turned into an attack against Kurds.
10 June 2014
Two Dismissed After Flag Take Down
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Turkish Air Force Command and Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office have launched an investigation regarding the incident of taking down of Turkish flag within the military bsse of Diyarbakır 2nd Air Force Command. Two security officers were dismissed.
10 June 2014
What It Takes to Be Penniless in Prison
“In here, they don’t provide anything to us, neither water nor soap, toothpaste or sugar… just tea is free...I used the same sheet for 27 months…Now, I don’t even have an underwear, just two rapped t-shirts and pants… Believe me, we feel the absence of everything..”
10 June 2014
Ayça Söylemez
“641 Sick Prisoners Are Still Jailed”
Struggle Platform Against Isolation released a statement, saying that as of June, there are 641 sick prisoners across Turkey’s prisons with 233 in serious condition.
9 June 2014
Beyza Kural
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Attack on High Security Checkpoint Protest in Lice, Two Dead
Soldiers attacked the protests in Lice against the construction of police stations and high security police checkpoints. Two Lice residents, Ramazan Baran (24) and Baki Akdemir (50) were killed. Two people were injured, one of them female. The funerals of the deceased were held yesterday.
9 June 2014
New Ruling in Dink Murder: Related State Officials Must Face Trial
The responsibility of state officials in the Dink murder was not carried to court despite the ECHR verdict and the reform on Code on Criminal Procedure. Bakırköy 8th High Criminal Court made a ruling opening the way to this investigation.
6 June 2014
Erol Önderoğlu
“Children Aren’t Being Taken To The Mountains; They Go There”
bianet talked with Human Rights Foundation (İHD) Chairman Öztürk Türkdoğan about the recent “child guerrillas” debate sparked by the protest of around 80 families in Diyarbakır whose children have joined the PKK.
4 June 2014
Ekin Karaca
YouTube At Last!
Turkey lifted its YouTube ban dated March 27 following the Constitutional Court’s decision on May 29 stating, “The access ban on Youtube is a rights violation.”
3 June 2014
Our New Paramilitaries: Trust Teams
I saw the people called “Trust Teams”, whom one doesn’t even recognize to be police officers, for the first time at a social event. They put on their show in the first year commemorations of the Gezi Resistance through swearing, violence and shouting.
2 June 2014
Ekin Karaca
Gezi Anniversary Protests: 126 Detained, 13 Wounded
Istanbul’s Gezi Anniversary Protests on Saturday left 126 demonstrators detained and 13 wounded. “İstanbul looks better thanks to peace and security,” Istanbul Provincial Police Chief Altınok said during his visit to the police in Taksim.
2 June 2014
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