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‘Press card’ lawsuit against Turkey’s Communications Directorate
Journalist Aydın Engin has filed a lawsuit against the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications over its failure to give him his permanent press card for over two years: “It is an acquired right; no institution can deny it without reasonable justification.”
11 December 2020
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‘Demirtaş is held behind bars upon Erdoğan’s instruction’
HDP Spokesperson Günay says that President and AKP Chair Erdoğan “once again gave an instruction to the judiciary” to hold former HDP Co-Chairs Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ and other arrested HDP politicians behind bars.
11 December 2020
Turkey fines social media platforms for not opening an office in the country
Several platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have been fined 3.8 million dollars for failing to comply with the social media law.
11 December 2020
‘Turkey should ratify Paris Agreement now’
Ahead of the 5th anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement on December 12, non-governmental organizations have called on Turkey to ratify the agreement and to improve its nationally determined contribution targets.
11 December 2020
LGBTI+ employees fear losing their jobs in Turkey
Kaos GL Association and Kadir Has University Gender and Women’s Studies Research Center have released their annual report on the Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Plus Employees in Public and Private Sector in Turkey.
11 December 2020
Happy Hanukkah to Jews
The first candles marking the start of the holiday were lit yesterday evening.
11 December 2020
Constitutional Court to review Kavala’s application on December 15
Having postponed reviewing the individual application of arrested businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala in September, the Constitutional Court has announced that it will examine his application next Tuesday.
11 December 2020
Turkey's current account posts 273 million dollars deficit
The figure was a 2.74 billion dollars surplus in the same month last year.
11 December 2020
State is sinking into debt, warns HDP
Batman MP Necdet İpekyüz has shared the HDP’s “Life Economy Without Debt” report with the public. “We are faced with a catastrophic picture where 739 thousand 756 people cannot pay their credit debt,” İpekyüz has warned.
11 December 2020
Turkey's ship released by Haftar forces in Libya
The ship was detained after it "entered a prohibited area and did not respond to calls," according to Haftar's spokesperson.
11 December 2020
EU to impose additional sanctions on Turkey over Eastern Mediterranean activities
An EU declaration says that Turkey "engaged in unilateral actions and provocations and escalated its rhetoric against the EU."
11 December 2020
Lawyer Aytaç Ünsal arrested
People’s Law Bureau (HHB) has announced that lawyer Aytaç Ünsal has been arrested without being referred to the courthouse. He was taken into custody in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne with three others yesterday.
11 December 2020
AtlasGlobal airline workers taken into custody
Unable to get their wages and severance pay since 2019, a group of AtlasGlobal airline workers had been protesting in front of the ETSTur company’s headquarters in İstanbul for six days. Nine people were taken into custody yesterday.
11 December 2020
‘Threatened’ by former AKP mayor, N.E. gets a protection order in the UK
Applying to the Urfa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, attorney Keskin has filed a criminal complaint against AKP’s Mehmet E. on the grounds that "he threatened the woman named N.E. with death, sexually harassed and systematically insulted her."
11 December 2020
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Bomb attack in Syria: 2 soldiers lose their lives
Two gendarmerie personnel have lost their lives and eight others have been injured in a bomb attack carried out in Ras al-Ayn district in northeastern Syria, according to a statement released by the Governor’s Office of Urfa.
11 December 2020
Erdoğan: Turkey could open its borders with Armenia
Signing a number of agreements in the fields of transportation, communication and visa exemption, Turkey’s President Erdoğan and Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev held a joint press conference in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.
11 December 2020
Turkey updates coronavirus case count as 1.74 million
The number of total cases was not clear as the ministry was reporting only symptomatic cases until late November.
10 December 2020
LGBTI+ family groups denounce age restriction on 'rainbow-themed products'
The Ministry of trade has imposed an "18 plus restriction" on LGBTI+ products sold online to "protect children's development."
10 December 2020
Dissenting opinion to Yüksekdağ’s arrest: She is no flight risk
While the court board has ruled that Figen Yüksekdağ, the former Co-Chair of the HDP, shall remain behind bars, one of the judges has expressed a dissenting opinion. Put on trial over her political speeches, Yüksekdağ faces up to 83 years in prison.
10 December 2020
HDP says government's silence shows who bugged its office
The party announced on Tuesday that it found bugging devices in its İstanbul office.
10 December 2020
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‘Turkey’s unemployment rate is not 12.7 percent, but 26.4 percent’
The Research Center of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) has shared its own statistics on unemployment in Turkey, refuting the recent labor force statistics released by the state agency TurkStat.
10 December 2020
Education Ministry distributes 60,000 free tablets while millions can't access online classes
More than six million students were not able to access the online education network in the last school year.
10 December 2020
‘Pandemic seen as an “opportunity” for rights violations’
The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) has released a statement to mark December 10 Human Rights Day, reminding the authorities that the struggle against the pandemic must be waged in line with fundamental human rights.
10 December 2020
Erdoğan says new US arms sales bill 'not nice,' he will discuss it with Biden
The president has recalled that he and Biden know each other very well and they can solve issues through diplomacy.
10 December 2020
‘Me too’ movement in Turkey’s literature: ‘May they lose sleep’
After women exposed the harassment of writer Hasan Ali Toptaş, women have started compiling lists of “male harassers and mobbers” from different professions. Publishing houses have also been sharing statements of solidarity with women.
10 December 2020
Twenty-seven people detained for abusing a child in İstanbul
There were also other children in the same school who were abused by the people in detention, according to a children's rights group.
10 December 2020
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Unemployment rate according to Turkey's state agency: 12.7 percent
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for September 2020. According to the TurkStat, the unemployment rate was 12.7 percent in September, which marked a 1.1 percentage point decrease.
10 December 2020
Lawyer Aytaç Ünsal detained in Edirne province
With the execution of his prison sentence deferred after his death fast for a fair trial, lawyer Aytaç Ünsal has been taken into custody in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne “because he was suspected to flee abroad.”
10 December 2020
Minister: More than 120,000 health workers infected with Covid-19
Turkey has lost 216 health workers to the virus so far, Minister Koca has said.
10 December 2020
İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu calls for ‘total lockdown’ again
34 workers of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality have so far lost their lives due to coronavirus, according to Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who has reiterated his call for a total lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.
10 December 2020
Turkey has to deliver concrete results to regain Europe's trust, says MEP
We have spoken with MEP Sergey Lagodinsky and the European Council's Turkey Unit Head Bernard Brunet about Brussels-Ankara relations.
10 December 2020
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Union secures majority in factory, boss dismisses 80 workers
More than 80 workers have been dismissed from the Ekmekçioğulları Metal Factory in Çorum province on the day when the United Metal Workers’ Union was granted the right to represent workers by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.
10 December 2020
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