After a PKK member was killed during clashes with security forces in 2010, his family had applied to the top court, alleging that the body was burned after the autopsy.

Journalist Hrant Dink, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Agos newspaper, would be 67 years old today if he had not been assassinated in 2007. The online International Hrant Dink Award ceremony will be held online tonight.

Oral stood trial for being a board member of an association that was shut down by a statutory decree during the state of emergency declared after the 2016 coup attempt.

A study conducted by the Deep Poverty Network shows that children work in Turkey because the adults bringing money to the household cannot work due to illness or another reason or their income does not suffice to make ends meet.

The children suffer physical and psychological violence as well as other rights violations, according to a report by the Diyarbakır Bar Association.

Unable to attend the award-giving ceremony as he was arrested at the time, HDP Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has received the “Ayşenur Zarakolu Freedom of Thought and Expression Award” in a ceremony held in Siirt province.

Prisoners went on an indefinite-rotating hunger strike in protest against the isolation of PKK leader Öcalan in prison and the rights violations committed in prisons, especially during the pandemic. The periods were increased from 5 to 15 days as of July 14.

The Forensic Medicine Institution has concluded that “the execution of Aysel Tuğluk’s sentence can continue in prison conditions by enabling her to receive treatment and regular medical checks at the polyclinic at recommended intervals.”

According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, 16 people, including nine children and a person with disabilities, lost their lives by being run over by the vehicles of security forces and public institutions from January 1, 2018 to September 10, 2021.

Going to school with his bike, 14-year-old Furkan Murat G. was hit by a police vehicle in Sakarya. The child has lost his life at hospital.

Having spent 4.5 years in prison and released in mid-April 2021, novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan has spoken to Yasemin Çongar. Altan also answered the question about why his novels are not published in Turkish: “Are you asking this to me?”

In two weeks, new investigations were opened against five journalists, one journalist was attacked, and a reporter was prevented from covering a demonstration by the police.

Keeping a justice watch for 185 days for his spouse and two sons killed and one son arrested, Emine Şenyaşar says, “Our life has fallen apart. I take sleeping pills to sleep. My heart aches. May justice be done and my son be released.”

Mihraç Miroğlu, 7, was killed after being run over by an armored vehicle on September 3. The officer who was driving the vehicle testified three days after the incident and has not been detained.

September 7 marked the 183rd day of the “justice watch” of Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar, who lost their three family members in an attack by the relatives and security guards of a ruling AKP MP. Emine Şenyaşar demanded justice for her jailed son.

Run over by armored vehicles, at least 17 children aged 4-17 lost their lives. Three more children have died in armored vehicle crashes since 2019.

Releasing its 40th monthly media monitoring report, the Progressive Journalists Association says, “We will either make our voices heard freely or we will perish.”

Today is the 66th anniversary of the pogrom against Rums, Armenians and Jews that took place on September 6-7, 1966.

Şırnak Bar Association Chair Rojhat Dilsiz visited the family of Mihraç Miroğlu, who was run over by an armored vehicle and lost his life. Extending his condolences to the family, Dilsiz said that 36 people died in armored vehicle crashes in 10 years.

The statement of the police officer driving the armored vehicle that hit and killed 7-year-old Mihraç Miroğlu in Kurdish-majority Şırnak province was taken three days later. The investigation has been launched on the grounds of “deadly road accident.”