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School bus rolls over in Samsun: One child loses her life
School bus rolls over in Samsun: One child loses her life
A school bus rolled over in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, claiming the life of one child and wounding six children and the driver.
9 March 2022
Electricity bills have tripled in Turkey’s prisons as well
Electricity bills have tripled in Turkey’s prisons as well
Writing to bianet from the Elbistan Type E Closed Prison, cartoonist Ahmet Bilge says that while he and three fellow prisoners would pay 80 lira on average for the electricity bill, it almost tripled last month and they were expected to pay 220 lira.
7 March 2022 Ayça Söylemez
Canal İstanbul | Council of State cancels the tender for a railway line
Canal İstanbul | Council of State cancels the tender for a railway line
Examining the tender for a railway line to be built between Halkalı and Ispartakule as part of the Canal İstanbul project, the Council of State has found the negotiated tendering process to be contrary to law.
7 March 2022
Turkey’s security directorate probes social media posts on cooking oil prices
Turkey’s security directorate probes social media posts on cooking oil prices
The Directorate General of Security has announced that it has taken action against 45 social media accounts which allegedly posted provocative messages and disinformation about “cooking oil prices” in Turkey.
7 March 2022
Sub-Governor’s Office of Cizre bans ‘Mem û Zîn’ Kurdish theater play
Sub-Governor’s Office of Cizre bans ‘Mem û Zîn’ Kurdish theater play
The Şermola Performans theater group has announced that the Sub-Governor’s Office of Cizre in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Şırnak informed them about the ban on their theater play by calling them by phone.
7 March 2022
'I'm worried that I won't be able to sing again'
'I'm worried that I won't be able to sing again'
Kurdish musician Nudem Durak was imprisoned for singing in her mother tongue.
4 March 2022
Emine Şenyaşar to be granted ‘Peace, Fellowship and Democracy Award’
Emine Şenyaşar to be granted ‘Peace, Fellowship and Democracy Award’
The Diyarbakır Medical Chamber has announced that this year’s “Peace, Fellowship and Democracy Award” will be granted to Emine Şenyaşar, “who has been on a justice watch for 360 days despite all types of pressure and intervention”.
3 March 2022
‘Kurdish children in Turkey die in armored vehicle crashes or explosions of war remnants’
‘Kurdish children in Turkey die in armored vehicle crashes or explosions of war remnants’
According to the report of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, 67 children lost their lives as a result of armored vehicle crashes and remnants of war in Turkey in the last 10 years. Bar Chair Eren says that the deaths occur in Kurdish-majority provinces.
3 March 2022 Ruken Tuncel
'The first casualty of war is the truth, we journalists side with peace, not war'
'The first casualty of war is the truth, we journalists side with peace, not war'
The TGS has released a statement about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and criticized Twitter for profiling the employees of Russia-based Sputnik news website. The union has also requested that peace be established as soon as possible.
2 March 2022
Twitter labels Sputnik Turkey journalists' accounts as 'Russia state-controlled media'
Twitter labels Sputnik Turkey journalists' accounts as 'Russia state-controlled media'
The journalists, including one who left his job at Sputnik eight months ago, have become targets of harassment, a monitoring group has said.
1 March 2022
‘Poverty is a public health problem’
‘Poverty is a public health problem’
Amid increasing economic problems and poverty in Turkey, the Ankara Medical Chamber held a press conference about poverty, which drives the health and healthcare system away from a state of complete wellness, and its effects on health.
28 February 2022
IPI condemns the attack on columnist Memduh Bayraktaroğlu's house
IPI condemns the attack on columnist Memduh Bayraktaroğlu's house
“Turkey must make clear that violence against journalists is unacceptable,” says International Press Institute Turkey Programme Coordinator Akyavaş regarding the attempted raid on Korkusuz newspaper columnist Bayraktaroğlu’s house.
25 February 2022
Killing of journalist Güngör Arslan | Number of arrested suspects increases to 7
Killing of journalist Güngör Arslan | Number of arrested suspects increases to 7
With the arrest of five more people over the killing of local journalist Güngör Arslan in Kocaeli, the total number of arrested suspects has increased to seven.
25 February 2022
Ultranationalist group raid columnist Memduh Bayraktaroğlu’s house
Ultranationalist group raid columnist Memduh Bayraktaroğlu’s house
After the head of ultranationalist Gray Wolves, officially known as the Idealist Hearths, threatened Memduh Bayraktaroğlu, a columnist for Korkusuz newspaper, the columnist has been attacked.
24 February 2022
HDP Co-Chair Buldan meets Gülistan Doku's family
HDP Co-Chair Buldan meets Gülistan Doku's family
Gülistan Doku, a university student in Dersim, has been missing since January 5, 2020.
22 February 2022
'Ban on education in mother language torments Kurdish children in Turkey'
'Ban on education in mother language torments Kurdish children in Turkey'
Young Kurdish people remember their first years at school as a nightmare. Tan says, “As we could not spell the words, the teacher held us at school till 9 pm. He was saying, ‘You are gonna learn this language’.”
22 February 2022
Struggle for Kırmancki/Zazaki*: Speaking your mother language is not separatism
Struggle for Kırmancki/Zazaki*: Speaking your mother language is not separatism
Dr. Nadire Güntaş-Aldatmaz says, “Children; you are more beautiful when you speak the language of your mother, father, maternal and paternal grandmother.”
22 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek
Romani people during the pandemic: Both discrimination and violence on the increase
Romani people during the pandemic: Both discrimination and violence on the increase
Prepared as part of the Roma Dialogue Network’s Reinforcement Project, a recent report sheds light on the problems encountered by Romani people in Turkey during the pandemic: Aggravated discrimination, increasing poverty, more blatant violence.
21 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek
Three more languages die out in Turkey
Three more languages die out in Turkey
The Human rights Association has called on Turkey to abide by its responsibilities according to international conventions that it is a party to.
21 February 2022
'Surprising': 5-year-old Lusin talks about Homshetsi on Mother Language Day
'Surprising': 5-year-old Lusin talks about Homshetsi on Mother Language Day
“Homshetsi is a special language, Homshetsi is a beautiful language. I would like to sing you a song,” says Lusin Sultan, speaking to bianet on the occasion of February 21 International Mother Language Day.
21 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek
Journalist Güngör Arslan killed in an armed attack in Kocaeli province
Journalist Güngör Arslan killed in an armed attack in Kocaeli province
Released in September 2021 in the trial where he was facing “blackmail" charges, Kocaeli Ses newspaper’s owner Güngör Arslan has lost his life in an armed attack. A day before, he wrote about a tender at the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality.
21 February 2022
Turkish Medical Association meets Parliamentary Human Rights Commission
Turkish Medical Association meets Parliamentary Human Rights Commission
TTB Chair Prof. Korur Fincancı met the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission Chair and Director General of Prisons and Detention Houses about rights violations in prisons, ill prisoners and forensic medical reports given for ill prisoners.
18 February 2022
Journalist Zeynep Durgut released after 4 days in detention
Journalist Zeynep Durgut released after 4 days in detention
Referred to the Şırnak Courthouse today, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut has been released on probation after giving her statement to the prosecutor’s office. Durgut had been in detention since February 14.
17 February 2022
Journalist Zeynep Durgut’s statement taken after two days in detention
Journalist Zeynep Durgut’s statement taken after two days in detention
Giving his statement at the security directorate after two days in detention yesterday, on February 16, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut is expected to be referred to the Şırnak Prosecutor’s Office today.
17 February 2022
CHP Youth Organization attacks a local newspaper in Mersin with paint, eggs
CHP Youth Organization attacks a local newspaper in Mersin with paint, eggs
The Mersin Youth Organization of the main opposition CHP raided the Haberci newspaper, which reported on the allegations of corruption and irregularities in a tender lodged by the Mersin Metropolitan Municipality for an integrated waste facility.
16 February 2022
Court refuses to release journalist Sedef Kabaş
Court refuses to release journalist Sedef Kabaş
Kabaş has been under arrest since January 22 for "insulting the president" and "insulting public officials."
15 February 2022
Rights group calls for rights defender, lawyer Tarık Güneş’s release
Rights group calls for rights defender, lawyer Tarık Güneş’s release
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has called on the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior to act in compliance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and demanded the release of arrested lawyer and rights advocate Tarık Güneş.
14 February 2022
Boğaziçi University | Secretary General Nedim Malkoç removed from office
Boğaziçi University | Secretary General Nedim Malkoç removed from office
The academics of Boğaziçi University took legal action against the appointment of Malkoç as the Secretary General on July 13, 2021 and the İstanbul 12th Administrative Court gave a decision of stay of execution.
14 February 2022
Journalist Zeynep Durgut taken into custody
Journalist Zeynep Durgut taken into custody
Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut has been detained in a house raid in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Şırnak province and taken to the Şırnak Security Directorate. The reason for her detention is yet unknown.
14 February 2022
Chief editor of slain casino boss's newspaper threatens journalist
Chief editor of slain casino boss's newspaper threatens journalist
A casino boss at the center of drug smuggling and blackmailing allegations, Halil Falyalı was shot dead on Tuesday in Northern Cyprus.
11 February 2022
Ruling AKP, MHP and BBP file a criminal complaint against journalist Ayşenur Arslan
Ruling AKP, MHP and BBP file a criminal complaint against journalist Ayşenur Arslan
The ruling AKP, its ally MHP and BBP have requested that Halk TV presenter Ayşenur Arslan be penalized on charge of “degrading the nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey and the institutions and bodies of the state”.
11 February 2022
Turkey's media watchdog probes Halk TV over Arslan's remarks over Falyalı's killing
Turkey's media watchdog probes Halk TV over Arslan's remarks over Falyalı's killing
Ayşenur Arslan, a program presenter at Halk TV, has been targeted on social media over her remarks about the killing of ‘betting and casino tycoon’ Halil Falyalı in Cyprus. RTÜK has launched an inquiry against the broadcaster.
10 February 2022
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