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Halk TV fined over remarks about Azerbaijan, President Aliyev
Halk TV fined over remarks about Azerbaijan, President Aliyev
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined broadcaster Halk TV over the remarks of journalist Gültekin, who said, “Is Azerbaijan a state? It is a tribe, there is no democracy or law, there is an authoritarian rule, there is no election…”
8 October 2020
Journalist, documentary photographer Fatih Pınar acquitted of #NewrozPirozBe
Journalist, documentary photographer Fatih Pınar acquitted of #NewrozPirozBe
Put on trial for sharing a photo under the hashtag #NewrozPirozBe (Happy Newroz), journalist and documentarian Fatih Pınar has been acquitted of "propagandizing for a terrorist organization".
7 October 2020
Human Rights Association: Release rights defenders detained in Ağrı
Human Rights Association: Release rights defenders detained in Ağrı
Human Rights Association (İHD) Ağrı Provincial Chair Atilla Özbey and executive Emin Yıldız have been detained over the press statements they have made and the demonstrations and meetings they have attended since 2013.
7 October 2020
Access block to Rûdaw news website
Access block to Rûdaw news website
The Balıkesir 2nd Penal Judgeship of Peace has imposed an access block on the Rûdaw news website, which is based in Erbil in the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and also publishes news in Turkish.
7 October 2020
Operation against politicians, journalists in İstanbul
Operation against politicians, journalists in İstanbul
Several people, including Etkin News Agency (ETHA) reporter Pınar Gayıp, have been taken into custody in house raids in İstanbul.
7 October 2020
Hundreds of people express solidarity with HDP MP Garo Paylan
Hundreds of people express solidarity with HDP MP Garo Paylan
After he was targeted by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) for making a call for peace amid ongoing clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, hundreds of people have expressed support for Garo Paylan, an Armenian MP of the HDP.
6 October 2020
4 journalists detained in Van
4 journalists detained in Van
Police raided the office of Mezopotamya Agency (MA) in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, taking four journalists into custody.
6 October 2020
Case of ÇHD lawyers taken to Constitutional Court: 'Violations won't fit into the form'
Case of ÇHD lawyers taken to Constitutional Court: 'Violations won't fit into the form'
Eighteen lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers' Association (ÇHD) and People's Law Bureau (HHB) were sentenced to a total of 159 years in prison.
5 October 2020 Ayça Söylemez
HDP MP Garo Paylan: There are no winners in war and no losers in peace
HDP MP Garo Paylan: There are no winners in war and no losers in peace
Targeted by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) amid ongoing clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia, HDP MP Paylan has filed a criminal complaint against the ASAM executives and released a statement about the issue.
5 October 2020
Detained in Kars, 3 people arrested
Detained in Kars, 3 people arrested
Taken into custody on October 1, HDP’s dismissed Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca’s detention period has been extended by four days along with 14 other detained people. While three people have been arrested, three people have been released on probation.
5 October 2020
‘How many prisoners died of COVID-19 in Turkey?’
‘How many prisoners died of COVID-19 in Turkey?’
Addressing two Parliamentary questions to Justice Minister Gül, main opposition CHP’s Sezgin Tanrıkulu has asked, “How many applications have been made to your Ministry regarding the failure of prisons to provide prisoners with water or hot water?”
2 October 2020
Press freedom in Turkey: At least 347 news articles censored in 3 months
Press freedom in Turkey: At least 347 news articles censored in 3 months
After the new social media law entered into force yesterday, the RSF has expressed concerns about the “use of the Internet to censor outspoken journalists in Turkey, where new legislation gives the government much more control over social media platforms.”
2 October 2020
17 HDP politicians arrested
17 HDP politicians arrested
While Altan Tan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Gülfer Akkaya have been released on probation, 17 people, including Kars Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, have been arrested as part of the Kobani investigation launched by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
2 October 2020
From PACE to Turkey: Release detained opposition members immediately
From PACE to Turkey: Release detained opposition members immediately
While 20 detained HDP politicians have been referred to court with a request for their arrest, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for Turkey have called for the “the immediate release of arrested opposition members.”
2 October 2020
Broadcast, publication ban on allegations of dropping from a helicopter
Broadcast, publication ban on allegations of dropping from a helicopter
Conducting an investigation into the allegations that two villagers were dropped from a military helicopter, the Van Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has imposed a confidentiality order on the file and banned broadcasting or publishing news about the issue.
2 October 2020
Prison conditions in Turkey amid pandemic: ‘No ventilation, disinfectants, masks…’
Prison conditions in Turkey amid pandemic: ‘No ventilation, disinfectants, masks…’
The Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) Association has documented the complaints of prisoners in a recent report: Bathrooms are dirty, washbasins are few, tap water is dirty in some prisons while it is frequently cut in some others...
1 October 2020
Musician Hozan Canê released
Musician Hozan Canê released
Sentenced to 6 years, 3 months in prison on “terror” charges and behind bars for two years, Kurdish musician Hozan Canê, also a citizen of Germany, has been released as the court found her prison sentence disproportionate.
1 October 2020
Censorship censored as well
Censorship censored as well
A prisoner in Şakran Prison wanted to send his drawing to bianet. “We want a fair trial” was written on the drawing. But the prison administration censored it. When the prisoner wanted to write to bianet about this censorship, it was censored as well.
1 October 2020 Ayça Söylemez
Access block to 3 news websites
Access block to 3 news websites
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has blocked access to sendika.org, Mezopotamya Agency and Yeni Demokrasi news websites upon the decision of the penal judgeship of peace.
1 October 2020
Academics for Peace: Doing politics is not a crime
Academics for Peace: Doing politics is not a crime
Releasing a written statement, the Academics for Peace have demanded the immediate release of the people who have been taken into custody in operations against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
1 October 2020
Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca detained
Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca detained
As part of an operation against the HDP in Turkey’s Kurdish majority eastern province of Kars, several people, including Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca, have been detained.
1 October 2020
Servet Turgut dies after being 'dropped from a military helicopter'
Servet Turgut dies after being 'dropped from a military helicopter'
Turgut was one of the two people who were revealed to be in intensive care treatment two days after they were detained in the Kurdish-majority Van province.
30 September 2020
Who is behind hate media in Turkey?
Who is behind hate media in Turkey?
“Hate and Propaganda Media in Turkey: Affiliations, Models and Patterns” report has been released as part of the international Resilience Project, which is implemented in partnership with a series of media organizations, including bianet from Turkey.
29 September 2020 Sinem Aydınlı
Documentarian Çayan Demirel gains the right of disability retirement
Documentarian Çayan Demirel gains the right of disability retirement
Though it has long been confirmed by a medical report that documentarian Demirel is 99 percent disabled, he was struggling for his right of disability retirement for 4.5 years. The state will now automatically raise an objection as it has lost the lawsuit.
29 September 2020 Ayşegül Özbek
Jailed lawyer bandaged her broken finger herself
Jailed lawyer bandaged her broken finger herself
Sentenced to 9 years in prison in the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) case and currently held in Düzce Prison, lawyer Aycan Çiçek’s finger was broken by wardens. She treated her broken finger herself with the help of another warden.
29 September 2020 Ayça Söylemez
Demonstrations, events banned in Dersim for 15 days
Demonstrations, events banned in Dersim for 15 days
The Governor’s Office of Tunceli has banned demonstrations and events in Dersim province for 15 days. While the coronavirus outbreak has been indicated as the reason for the ban, official events will not be within its scope.
29 September 2020
Cars with Azerbaijan flags tour around İstanbul Armenian Patriarchate amid Karabakh clashes
Cars with Azerbaijan flags tour around İstanbul Armenian Patriarchate amid Karabakh clashes
Politicians have denounced the "provocative" demonstration and warned against hate speech.
29 September 2020
No one has stood trial in 11 years for 12-year-old Ceylan Önkol's death in an explosion
No one has stood trial in 11 years for 12-year-old Ceylan Önkol's death in an explosion
Ceylan was killed by a mortar shell explosion in the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province in 2009.
29 September 2020
Investigation against ‘Movement of the Nameless’: 3 people arrested
Investigation against ‘Movement of the Nameless’: 3 people arrested
Taken into custody as part of an investigation against the “Movement of the Nameless”, Şehmus Kavak, Misli Cihan Şenleten and Özgür Doğuş Erhan have been arrested on charge of “insulting the President.”
29 September 2020
Court imposes judicial control measure on journalist Merdan Yanardağ
Court imposes judicial control measure on journalist Merdan Yanardağ
Summoned to depose for allegedly “targeting Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman” in a news report, TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ has been released on probation by the court.
29 September 2020
Individual armed violence has increased by 66 percent in 6 years
Individual armed violence has increased by 66 percent in 6 years
On September 28 Individual Disarmament Day, Umut (Hope) Foundation released a statement and announced that 2,455 incidents of violence took place in Turkey in the first nine months of 2020. 2,061 of them were committed with firearms.
29 September 2020
How was evidence hidden in Berkin Elvan case?
How was evidence hidden in Berkin Elvan case?
Attorney Çiğdem Akbulut has spoken about the attempts to spoil evidence in the investigation launched into the killing of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who was shot by a police officer with a tear gas canister during Gezi protests in 2013.
28 September 2020 Ayça Söylemez
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