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Police battered the journalist reporting on municipality’s corruption
Covering news on corruption in Osmaniye province, journalist Tolga Balcılar’s house was raided by the police three times in one week even though there was no search warrant for the house or a detention warrant against the journalist.
31 May 2021
İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu faces up to 4 years in prison
On the grounds that he allegedly insulted the members of the Supreme Election Council (YSK) after the İstanbul elections had been cancelled, a lawsuit has been filed against İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.
31 May 2021
Report: Pro-government newspapers received 78 percent of all public ad payments in 2020
The government has been criticized for using the Press Advertisement Agency to repress independent newspapers.
31 May 2021
Kurds to protest for education in Kurdish
A series of rallies will be held in Turkey’s three Kurdish-majority eastern provinces with the slogans “Make Kurdish language the official and education language in Turkey” and “May the 21st century be the century of Kurdish language.”
31 May 2021
Academic for Peace Tuna Altınel receives his passport
Prevented from going back to France without any legal grounds for two years, Assoc. Prof. Tuna Altınel has received his passport.
31 May 2021
8th anniversary of Gezi: We remember the deceased with a demand for justice
In the lawsuits filed into the killing of eight people during the Gezi resistance of 2013, the defendants were given “judicial fines”, they were “acquitted” or given “good conduct times.” No lawsuit has been filed into the death of Ahmet Atakan.
31 May 2021
Ruken Tuncel
Appointed vice rector of Boğaziçi doesn’t approve Feyzi Erçin’s course
Having accepted his appointment as a vice rector while his two students were arrested and appointed as the acting director of two institutes, Prof. İnci has cancelled a course of lawyer-academic Erçin, who was giving classes at Boğaziçi for 8 years.
31 May 2021
Dilek Şen
Turkey reports less than 7 thousand cases for the first time after months
According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 134 people died of coronavirus and 6,933 people tested positive with over 218 thousand tests in a day. 1,390 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.
31 May 2021
Sedat Peker claims Erdoğan aides organize illicit oil trade, arms delivery to 'terror' groups in Syria
In his new YouTube video on mafia-state relations, the crime boss implicated the SADAT military firm and a senior official at the Presidency. He also said he would talk about President Erdoğan in his next video.
30 May 2021
‘The government did not take care of shopkeepers as it said it would’
Business owner Bacaksız: "Property owners receive rent, workers get their salary either from me or from the state, the person from whom I buy goods gets their money, the state gets taxes, but we cannot get any money as we have been closed for months.”
28 May 2021
Hikmet Adal
Erdoğan opens Taksim Mosque to worship: ‘A dream of 150 years’
Ruling AKP Chair and President Erdoğan has addressed the crowd at the opening ceremony of Taksim Mosque in İstanbul. Speaking at the ceremony, he has targeted the citizens who joined the Gezi Resistance in 2013.
28 May 2021
Selahattin Demirtaş sentenced to prison for ‘targeting a prosecutor’
On the grounds of his remarks about former Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman, jailed politician Demirtaş has been sentenced to 2 years, 6 months in prison on charge of “turning a counterterrorism official into a target.”
28 May 2021
‘20 thousand people detained at demonstrations in 4 years’
According to the report of the TİHV, the freedom of assembly and demonstration was violated 4,771 times in Turkey in 2015-2019. 3,102 students faced violations of rights while exercising their freedom of assembly, demonstration and association.
28 May 2021
HDP’s Günay: This issue is far beyond Peker, Soylu and Ağar
HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay has talked in the wake of Sedat Peker's statements: “This very mafia order attacks the opposition to cover up its own crimes and to sustain this dirty and rotten order.”
28 May 2021
‘What happened to enforced disappeared Syriac people?’
Syriac MP Tuma Çelik has asked the fate and whereabouts of the enforced disappeared Syriac people since the 1990s. Raising concerns about the unsolved murders as well, he has noted that the fate and whereabouts of Hurmüz Diril is still unknown.
28 May 2021
Three new lawsuits by academics of Boğaziçi University
The academics of Boğaziçi University have demanded the annulment of the decisions taken by the Council of Higher Education and the new university administration.
28 May 2021
‘Male violence’ protest against Soylu: ‘106 women killed in four months’
The HDP MPs have left the meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on Equality of Opportunity Between Women and Men, leaving behind placards with the names of 106 women who lost their lives in the first four months of this year.
28 May 2021
Saturday Mothers/People demand justice for 26 years: ‘We won’t forgive’
Asking the fate and whereabouts of their enforced disappeared loved ones for 26 years, Saturday Mothers/People were at Galatasaray Square yesterday. They stressed that they would not give up until the last missing person was found.
28 May 2021
Appointed rector becomes a ‘civil servant’ six months after his appointment
How could Bulu become a civil servant six months after he was appointed as a rector to Boğaziçi? What happened in the process leading up to his being “chosen” for the position at another university and becoming a member of permanent staff?
28 May 2021
Dilek Şen
Turkey reports 183 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours
According to Turkey’s Health Ministry, 183 people died of coronavirus and 8,426 people tested positive with over 219 thousand tests in a day. 1,504 coronavirus patients are reportedly in a critical condition.
28 May 2021
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Women slam sexist language in recent political debate
The Human Rights Association and the CHP's Kaftancıoğlu have criticized the language used by politicians.
27 May 2021
Starvation line tops minimum wage in Turkey
The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions has calculated the poverty and starvation lines in Turkey in May 2021. According to the confederation, the starvation line of a four-member family is 2,830 lira, while the minimum wage is 2,825 lira in the country.
27 May 2021
Mustafa Sönmez wins ‘press card’ lawsuit against Communications Directorate
Economist and journalist Mustafa Sönmez has won the lawsuit against the Presidency’s Communications Directorate, which has not renewed his press card.
27 May 2021
Hikmet Adal
Former intelligence officer Korkut Eken denies involvement in murder of journalist Kutlu Adalı
Crime boss Sedat Peker and his brother claim they had cooperated with Eken in a failed attempt to assassinate Adalı in Cyprus.
27 May 2021
Mayor İmamoğlu: We will adhere to İstanbul Convention
İmamoğlu stated that the number of women administrators in İstanbul Municipality increased three times compared to the previous period. Speaking about LGBTI+ rights, he said, "As an institution, we stand with LGBTI+s, as we stand with every citizen.”
27 May 2021
Evrim Kepenek
Turkey denounces Syria's presidential elections
Casting his vote in a former stronghold of armed groups fighting the Damascus government, Assad dismissed criticism, asserting that the election showed Syria's unity.
27 May 2021
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Arrested lawyer Aytaç Ünsal to Süleyman Soylu: Take pride
Lawyer Ünsal has sent a letter from prison. Touching upon the statements of mafia boss Peker, he has addressed Interior Minister Soylu: “It is the medal of your order that Peker has reached this point and is treated as the ‘main opposition spokesperson’.”
27 May 2021
Ayça Söylemez
Distance education in a village with little to no internet access
"Some days, we found places where there is a network connection. We climb up hills, high places," says a child in Gebola village in eastern Turkey.
27 May 2021
Cansever Avinç
Press freedom in Turkey: 213 journalists stood trial in the first 4 months of 2021
According to the first Freedom of Expression and the Press Agenda report of Expression Interrupted, 20 journalists were sentenced to 57 years, 10 months in prison in total in the first four months of this year.
27 May 2021
84 retired admirals summoned to depose over ‘Montreux declaration’
An investigation has been launched against 84 people who signed the ‘Montreux declaration’ and have not given their statements. They are charged with “making an agreement to commit crime against the security of the state and constitutional order.”
27 May 2021
Turkey to start vaccinating people aged over 50
Addressing the public following the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board meeting, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced that the people aged over 50 will be vaccinated against the virus starting from June 1, 2021.
27 May 2021
Over 50 percent of society ‘believe’ Sedat Peker and want an election
According to the Operational Social Research Center, 68.9 percent of Turkey’s society think that “the politics-mafia relations are ongoing, as it was the case in the past.” 50.1 percent of the participants say that “Turkey is misgoverned.”
27 May 2021
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