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Hrant Dink Under New Investigation
Public Prosecutors Office launches new investigation into Armenian Turkish bilingual Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Dink for remarks in a Reuters interview. Dink suspected of insulting the Turkish identity for referring to genocide.
19 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
Positive Discrimination Needed in Southeast
Economist Sonmez: Public investments in the East produce results benefiting the west or sustaining a State of Emergency. Economic and political positive discrimination is needed. GUNSIAD Chair Bedirhanoglu: Atmosphere of conflict should end.
19 July 2006 Tolga Korkut
UK bans TAK, moving against PKK alternatives
The British government this week formally outlawed the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons TAK and added three other organizations to its list of terrorist groups under a new legislation which makes glorification of terrorism illegal.
18 July 2006
Ankara Bar Association Stopping Free Counsel
The Ankara Bar Association has announced it will stop assigning free lawyers to suspects and victims involved in Criminal Procedural Code prosecutions after states failure to cover expenses.
18 July 2006
State of Emergency Not a Solution
Government discusses reinstating State of Emergency in Southeast as violence escalates. IHD Deputy Chair Yalcindag: We practically live OHAL. Concrete steps should be taken on the Kurdish problem.
18 July 2006 Tolga Korkut
Turkey In Iraq Buildup After PKK Attacks
Major troop deployment reported along Iraqi border after government tells military to plan and prepare for an incursion. PM rebuffs US Ambassadors warning against unilateral action, says government will decide on what to do.
18 July 2006
News on Suicide at Criminal Court
Journalist Eser to be tried at Criminal Court of First Instance for news reports on a driver who committed suicide. He face up to 2 years jail each if found guilty of insulting the memorable image of a deceased person .
17 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
BIA²s 2006-2nd Quarterly Monitoring Report
Attacks and threats, detentions and arrests, trials and attempts, regulations and quest for rights, censorships and reactions against monopolization, European Court of Human Rights and RTUK Penalties.
17 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
Civil Disobedience Spreads for Hrant Dink
Initiative For Freedom of Expression expand civil disobedience action through public declaration denouncing themselves as co-offenders of journalist Dink after appeals court upholds a suspended 6 month sentence criminalizing his article in Agos weekly
17 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
How to Avoid Honor Killing-Suicide in Turkey?
Derya, fiercely articulate and newly invigorated after counseling, said she was determined to get on with her life. This region is religious and it is impossible to be yourself if you are a woman, she said. You can either escape or kill yourself.
17 July 2006 Dan Bılefsky
60 Children Arrested in Gaziantep in 6 Months
60 out of 147 children involved in 560 separate offences were arrested in the southeast city of Gaziantep in the first 6 months of 2006, say local police. Dr. Yildiz says rapid rise in child offences in city is due to immigration and poverty.
14 July 2006 Murat Güreş
Women Protest Stoning To Death of Iranian
Turkish women organizations support signature campaign for Iranian Melek Ghorbany who was sentenced last month to be publicly stoned to death and will gather at Iranian consulate in Istanbul this Saturday to read out press statement.
14 July 2006 Ayşe Durukan
Justice Ministry Stops Funding Free Councel
Suspects in Turkey will not to get legal representation if they cant pay as Turkeys Union of Bar Associations (TBB) halts all free counseling services for defendants after Justice Ministry fails to cover the costs.
14 July 2006 Emine Özcan
Judge and Defendant Share Press Freedom Award
Turkeys Journalists Association (TGC) 2006 Press Freedom Awards goes to cartoonist Musa Kart for his prosecuted caricature depicting PM Erdogan as an entangled cat as well as Eskisehir Chief Justice Mithat Ali Kabaali who acquitted him.
14 July 2006
Anthrax Quarantine in 5 Southeast Villages
Officials say 5 villages in Hakkaris Yuksekova district have been placed under quarantine in fear of anthrax outbreak after loss of 80 livestock. District Agriculture Director warns locals against contracting disease.
13 July 2006
ECHR To Hear Appeal to Save Ancient City
European Court of Human Rights agrees to hear application made to stop Southeast Ilusu Dam which will flood historical town of Hasankeyf and hundreds of archeological sites while displacing tens of thousands of people at heart of ancient Mesopotamia.
13 July 2006
Attack on Journalist and Wife Condemned
TGC, TSYD, Gaziantep Journalists Association, Gaziantep chambers of Commerce and Industry condemn attack on Gaziantep 27 newspaper owner Okkes Ozeksi and wife, demand culprits to be apprehended and charged. Ozeksi in intensive care has brain surgery.
13 July 2006 Murat Güreş
Dink Verdict on Way to European Court
Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dinks lawyer Fethiye Cetin says they will take his suspended 6 months prison sentence to the European Court of Human Rights. Cetin expresses sorrow for justice system, noting that the opportunity to s
13 July 2006
Rehn: High Court Decison Disappointing
EU Commissioner Olli Rehn criticizes Court of Cassation decision against Armenian journalist Hırant Dink, editor of weekly Agos, based in Istanbul. High Court confirmed prison sentence for insulting Turkishness.
12 July 2006
NGOs Demand Extrajudicial Killing Probe
Acting on allegations supported by photographs that Iranian PKK militant Emani was executed by security forces after being captured alive, 23 organizations file formal criminal complaint demanding an investigation into the death.
12 July 2006
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Appeals Court Ratifies Dink Verdict
Court of Appeals General Council ratifies deferred 6 month prison sentence for Armenian weekly Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink voting to reject Appeals Prosecutors final opinion of no-offence and request to quash decision..
12 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
BIA² Media Report: 67 Individuals in 56 Cases
Monitoring media freedoms and rights in Turkey, BIA² discloses 56 Freedom of Expression cases launched against 67 individuals from April through June as government still seeks to impose new restrictions. Turkey pays ECHR 332,000 YTL in 1.5 years.
11 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
Journalist Ozeksi Attacked and Hospitalized
The owner of Gaziantep 27 daily and journalists Association Deputy Chair Ozeksi attacked by 2 unidentified assailants and beaten. He was seriously injured in assault and still in intensive care. Governor Kamci promises culprits will be found.
11 July 2006 Murat Güreş
Agos Case A Stage of Violence Again
Case of journalists Hrant Dink, Engin, Seropyan and Arat Dink charged with attempt to influence a fair trial was adjourned to December after the hearing subsequent to a fight between lawyers. Lawyer Ceylan was punched in face, his glasses were broken.
10 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
Minister Cubukcu Meets Women Organisation
35 Women activists finally get meeting with Minister Cubukcu I might have different opinions but I dont have different feelings She says.They will meet quarterly, doesnt refer to issues of virtue, virginity, surname, quota or property regime.
10 July 2006 Ayşe Durukan
Another Charge Against Diyarbakir Mayor
Another court case has been launched against Diyarbakir Metropolitan Mayor Baydemir, this time for remarks made while attempting to calm residents and security forces during the wave of violence that swept through city at the end of March.
10 July 2006 Erol Önderoğlu
CHD: Guards Beat 50 Women Prisoners
Contemporary Jurists Association reveals that 50 women prisoners who were being transferred from one prison to another were severely beaten and abused by guards onthe wa. One prisoner attempts suicide after transfer.
10 July 2006
Stopping Kerincsiz Is Bars Duty
IHGD calls on Istanbul Bar Association to stop lawyer Kerincsiz and his group of supporters in wake of new assault on human rights activists. Appeal comes after recent attack during promotion of TESEV book on Enforced Internal Migration.
10 July 2006
PM Issues Circular Against Violence on Women
In the wake of a Parliament Investigation Commission Report calling for positive discrimination for women until they are equals with men in society, Erdogan issues landmark circular warning all ministries, local administrations against violence on women
10 July 2006
Activists Urge President Veto Anti-Terror Law
Turkeys leading NGOs increase pressure on President Sezer to have Anti-Terror Act returned to Parliament without ratification and hold a face-to-face meeting to express concerns: Otherwise we will turn into a police state.
6 July 2006
Court Orders Novelist Safak Indicted
Istanbul 7. Criminal Court rejects prosecution decision to drop the case against novelist Elif Shafak, publisher Semih Sokmen and translator Asli Bican for insulting Turkishness for Safaks novel Father and Bastard, and requests an indictment.
6 July 2006
Rights Reporting To Be Awarded!
IPS Communication Foundation calls on mainstream and local media employees as well as communications students to submit their work in BİA²s nation-wide bid to support and reward journalism focusing on independent, ethical and rights-based reporting.
5 July 2006 Erhan Üstündağ
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