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Turkey's Foreign Ministry marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
The ministry pointed out that Turkey welcomed many Jew fleeing the Nazis during World War II.
27 January 2022
Suspect of assassination of Prof. Hablemitoğlu brought to Turkey
Allegedly having ties to the "Fetullahist Terrorist Organization," former Special Operations Command officer Gökhan Bozkır fled the country in 2015.
27 January 2022
HEAL: Coal pollution in Turkey caused nearly 200,000 premature deaths in 55 years
After ratifying the Paris Agreement, Turkey should now set a coal phase out date, says HEAL.
27 January 2022
Turkey’s Central Bank revises up year-end inflation forecast to 23.2 percent
According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), Turkey’s annual inflation rate was 36.08 percent in December 2021. The Inflation Research Group (ENAG), on the other hand, estimated the same rate as 82.81 percent.
27 January 2022
Highest number of content removal orders in Turkey target news on corruption, irregularities
According to the report of the Media Research Association, at least 1,197 news articles faced orders of removal in a year. The websites of Cumhuriyet and BirGün newspapers and Oda TV news website faced the highest number of removal orders.
27 January 2022
Petition by young people in Turkey: 'Prepare a coal exit action plan for a carbon-free future'
The Youth for Climate Turkey team has launched a petition demanding that Turkey take realistic and genuine steps towards achieving its 2053 decarbonization target: “In order to do this, it is crucial that our country announces it will phase out coal by 2030.”
27 January 2022
Severely ill prisoner not treated after refusing to be handcuffed to bed
Having severe heart disease, Fatma Tokmak is kept in prison despite a report saying that she can't stay in prison, says her attorney.
27 January 2022
Evrim Kepenek
‘Insulting the President’: Is it a tool to bring society into line?
According to lawyer Molu, the law on insulting the President aims to prevent or deter people from criticizing. Önderoğlu from the RSF says the law is a tool to bring people into line: Since 2014, 70 journalists have been convicted of this charge in Turkey.
27 January 2022
Hikmet Adal
The state of press freedom in Turkey: 18 journalists sentenced to prison in 3 months
According to a report published by Expression Interrupted, in the last quarter of 2021, 203 journalists appeared before the judge in 98 cases, which means on average, 70 journalists stood trial in more than 30 cases monthly during the reporting period.
27 January 2022
‘Our trans lives are valuable’: Rights groups to protest mounting hate attacks in İzmir
LGBTI+ and human rights organizations will organize a statement for the press in the face of recent hate attacks and murders targeting trans women in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir in the last two months.
27 January 2022
Kılıçdaroğlu: There are still patriotic bureaucrats resisting Erdoğan
The CHP leader has said that "patriotic bureaucrats" have sent him hundreds of documents about corruption involving Erdoğan and disclosed one of them.
27 January 2022
Two prisoners on hunger strike for the right to a fair trial
Prisoners Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yıldırım have been on a hunger strike for their demands as part of the right to a fair trial.
27 January 2022
President Erdoğan says his words ‘didn’t address Sezen Aksu’
Updating what he had said about musician Sezen Aksu, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan said, “The interlocutor of my address was not Sezen Aksu. I uttered the expression of ‘ripping out tongues’ as a stance on [the ones] against the sacreds.”
27 January 2022
Pharmaceutical industry employers request 40-percent hike in medication prices
Savaş Malkoç, the Secretary General of the Pharmaceutical Industry Employers’ Union, says that the exchange rate of Euro used in pricing medications should be fixed at 6.40 lira with an increase of 40 percent and another update should be made in 2022.
27 January 2022
'A political decision': Press Council calls for journalist Sedef Kabaş’s immediate release
In a written statement, the Press Council has commented on the court's rejection of the appeal against journalist Sedef Kabaş’s arrest: “It is concrete evidence of how much the judiciary has been politicized.”
27 January 2022
Some neighborhoods in Turkey see a 200-percent rent increase, show reports
While the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the rent increase rate as 19.60 percent, house owners do not recognize this rate as rents have seen a 200-percent increase in some neighborhoods, causing fears for a housing crisis in cities.
27 January 2022
3,118 violations of rights in Turkey's 20 prisons in the last 3 months of 2021
According to the last quarterly report of the Human Rights Association’s İstanbul Branch, 3,118 violations of rights in total, including eight losses of life, occurred in 20 prisons in Turkey in the last three months of 2021.
27 January 2022
Free in other prisons, book banned in Bolu Prison for 'jeopardizing security'
A legal book with an ISBN allocated by the Ministry of Culture is not given to Erol Zavar, who also gave an interview to be included in the book.
27 January 2022
Turkey’s daily coronavirus cases top 77 thousand again, death toll on the increase
The Ministry of Health has announced that over 416 thousand tests were conducted, 77,434 people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 188 people died of the disease in Turkey in the last 24 hours.
27 January 2022
Man dies after being hit by armored vehicle in Şırnak
Since 2018, at least 16 people have lost their lives after being hit by armored vehicles in the country's predominantly Kurdish-populated regions.
26 January 2022
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Atölye BİA training videos now online!
You may access the trilingual training videos on Rights-Based Journalism, News Photography, LGBTI+based Journalism and Freedom of Expression on atolyebia.org.
26 January 2022
Pro-government group files complaint against İstanbul mayor for 'going to restaurant amid snowfall'
Mayor İmamoğlu came under fire after meeting the UK's ambassador to Turkey at a restaurant while thousands of people were stranded on roads amid blizzards. The same group that filed the complaint threatened singer Sezen Aksu last week.
26 January 2022
After workers' protests, Trendyol agrees to raise salaries by 38 percent
Delivery workers of the e-commerce company have been protesting low wage rises.
26 January 2022
Why has Iran's natural gas cut caused a crisis in Turkey?
The opposition has slammed the government for not using natural gas storage facilities in full capacity.
26 January 2022
Appeal against journalist Sedef Kabaş’s arrest rejected by court
The İstanbul 58th Criminal Court of First Instance has dismissed the appeal against the arrest of journalist Sedef Kabaş by indicating that her arrest is “not without due process of law or against the law.”
26 January 2022
Turkey third country with most content removal requests from Twitter
Twitter has released its transparency report for the January-June 2021 period.
26 January 2022
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Academics reiterate determination in the face of elected deans’ dismissal
Academics of Boğaziçi University say, “Neither our dismissed deans nor we know why they have been removed from office. Neither the appointed rector, who announced the dismissal of deans, nor the YÖK, which dismissed them, made a statement.”
26 January 2022
İstanbul Airport partially resumes flights, all highways opened to traffic
Heavy snowfall and blizzards have disrupted transportation in the city since the start of the week.
26 January 2022
Turkey ranks first in violations of freedom of expression, show annual ECtHR statistics
The European Court of Human Rights handed down 78 judgements on Turkey in 2021, ruling against the country in 76 of these cases.
26 January 2022
12 summaries of proceedings seek to lift 10 MPs' legislative immunity
12 summaries of proceedings against 9 HDP MPs and one DBP MP have been delivered to the Parliamentary Speaker’s Office. Since the beginning of this year, 62 summaries have been submitted against 36 MPs.
26 January 2022
BBC journalists continue Turkey's first media strike in 13 years
The strike continues amid cold and snow in İstanbul. We have visited the BBC journalists.
26 January 2022
Hikmet Adal
Why does a plane fail to take off from 3rd Airport while it can do so from Atatürk Airport?
While the Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport were mostly open to air traffic except for a few minor problems during the snowfall in İstanbul, the recently constructed İstanbul Airport, one of the mega projects, was severely affected. But why?
26 January 2022
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