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Report documents hate crime against belief groups in Turkey
The Freedom of Belief Initiative has found 47 incidents of hate crime targeting various belief groups, mostly Christians and Jews.
11 July 2024
Nearly 900 workers killed on the job across Turkey in first half of 2024
Thirty-three of the killed workers were children. İSİG says child employment under the guise of vocational training results in more deaths, which has now become more visible in urban areas.
11 July 2024
Media freedom groups express support for Açık Radyo after license revocation
Açık Radyo’s license was canceled by RTÜK after mentions of the Armenian genocide during a program.
11 July 2024
Turkey’s main opposition party says will hold talks with Syrian government
While the Syrian government has yet to respond to Erdoğan’s calls for a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, the CHP has confirmed it will engage in talks with them. However, a Syrian newspaper close to the Damascus government has denied the CHP statement.
11 July 2024
İstanbul introduces 'sea dolmuş' to improve water transport
For longer routes with lower passenger density, the municipality has introduced boats with a capacity of 33 passengers.
10 July 2024
Ruken Tuncel
reports
Police officers suspected in Tahir Elçi killing acquitted due to ‘insufficient evidence’
The court has released its detailed ruling in the case of the 2015 killing of Diyarbakır Bar Association President Tahir Elçi.
10 July 2024
Ruken Tuncel
Fire causes dome collapse in historical university building in İstanbul
The fire broke out during renovation work at the building.
10 July 2024
Journalist Tolga Şardan faces 5 years in prison over ‘intelligence report’ article
In the article, Şardan mentioned a report prepared by the country’s intelligence agency about high judicial bodies and submitted to the president.
10 July 2024
Report: At least 162 villages evacuated in Iraqi Kurdistan due to Turkish military operations
The Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has released a report detailing Turkey's ongoing military operations in Iraq's north.
10 July 2024
Turkey’s unemployment rate at 8.4% in May, gender gap persists
The unemployment rate for men stood at 7%, while it was at 11% for women.
10 July 2024
High court annuls regulation opening olive groves to mining
The regulation was enacted in March 2022, contravening the Olive Law.
10 July 2024
Ill prisoner kept in solitary cell in Giresun
Mehmet Darga was put in solitary confinement reportedly because of his participation in hunger strikes protesting PKK leader Öcalan’s confinement.
9 July 2024
Osman Kavala submits new appeal seeking retrial
The Justice Ministry rejected a previous appeal from Kavala’s lawyers.
9 July 2024
Toprak Yıldırım
reports
Trans people in Turkey face housing crisis more intensely amid discrimination and phobia
Trans people are faced with unfair rental prices, transphobia from landlords and neighbors and difficulties in pursuing legal recourse, exacerbating the housing crisis.
9 July 2024
Toprak Yıldırım
Pride Month marked by event bans in Turkey
Last month saw 23 LGBTI+ activists detained and various events to celebrate the Pride Month banned.
9 July 2024
TurkStat chair defends institution amid inflation calculation criticisms
Turkstat, whose reliability has been questioned for many years, is now accused of manipulating the June inflation figures to enable the government to keep pension increases low.
9 July 2024
Ali Dinç
reports
Private universities fire over 100 academics as school year ends
“Foundation universities, driven by short-term financial plans and market conditions, are conducting what amounts to a purge based on legally questionable fixed-term contracts," says a union official.
9 July 2024
Ali Dinç
Samurai wasps prove effective in combating stink bugs in northeastern Turkey
"Even with the presence of samurai wasps, farmers should not abandon their own methods,” a forestry official has warned despite success.
8 July 2024
Artvin villagers detained for opposing touristic facility project
“The Forest Management Directorate allows anyone with money in their pocket to cut down forests as they please,” said an activist.
8 July 2024
Constitutional Court vindicates academic disciplined for distributing leaflet
Mahiye Sevin Bayraktar faced disciplinary action for distributing leaflets on behalf of a union.
8 July 2024
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Imprisoned Kurdish politician Semra Güzel: ‘My right to love is being judged in this trial’
The former HDP deputy was arrested in September 2022, after a targeted campaign by the pro-government media led to a 'terror' investigation.
8 July 2024
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Maraş coal-fired plant expansion could lead to ‘1,900 premature deaths'
Environmental groups in the southeastern city have warned that Afşin, already suffering from severe pollution due to existing power plants, cannot sustain the significant expansion equivalent to building a new power plant.
8 July 2024
Floods sweep through Turkey’s north, east, leaving 2 dead
Two people have been killed in separate provinces, while the floods caused material damage to homes, shops, businesses, and cultivated areas.
8 July 2024
Public human rights agency documents overcrowding in prisons
Some prisoners sleep on the floor, the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey found during visits to two prisons.
8 July 2024
Justice Ministry rejects Kavala’s retrial request
Kavala’s lawyers had argued that shift to an executive presidential system in Turkey had rendered previous charges against him obsolete, as the office of the prime minister, the supposed victim of the crime, was abolished in the 2017 referendum.
5 July 2024
UEFA suspends Merih Demiral over 'grey wolf' sign, Erdoğan to attend Turkey’s match
Demiral’s controversial goal celebration led to a two-match ban by UEFA, a decision slammed by the president, who has canceled his scheduled program to attend the quarter finals game against the Netherlands.
5 July 2024
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More than 1,000 individuals detained across Turkey over anti-refugee violence
Violent attacks on refugees in Kayseri following an alleged child abuse incident spread to other regions.
5 July 2024
DEM members marching from İstanbul to Hakkari to protest removal of mayor
The government replaced the Hakkari co-mayor two months after the elections, citing a ‘terrorism’ investigation against him, in continuation of the ‘trustee policies.’
5 July 2024
Talha Keskin
reports
Boğaziçi University students hold alternative graduation after rector’s ban
"History will not go backward as they wish, and Boğaziçi University will definitely return to its former state,” said faculty member Prof. Ünal Zenginobuz.
4 July 2024
Talha Keskin
15-year-old Syrian child fatally stabbed in Antalya amid anti-refugee violence
Three suspects, all minors themselves, have been arrested following the incident.
4 July 2024
Turkey summons German ambassador over Euro 2024 goal celebration row
UEFA has opened an invesyigation into Merih Demiral, who flashed the ultranationalist 'Grey Wolves' sign after scoring a goal against Austria during Tuesday's game.
3 July 2024
Hikmet Adal
reports
Former bianet journalists acquitted in ‘insulting Turkish nation’ case
Haluk Kalafat, bianet’s former chief editor, and Elif Akgül, a former reporter, stood trials over articles from 2015, 2018, and 2019.
3 July 2024
Hikmet Adal
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