Men killed at least 378 women and 43 children in 2024. Men raped 16 women, forced 772 women into sex work, harassed 131 women and abused 229 children.

In 2024, men killed 378 women, harassed 131 women, abused 229 children, inflicted violence on 645 women and raped 16 women. Men forced at least 772 women into sex work. The death of 315 women was reported as “suspicious” in the press, while men killed at least 43 children.

Deaths due to poisoning from counterfeit alcohol in Istanbul have more than doubled on the second day. The increase in number of foreigners among the deaths indicates that counterfeit alcohol use more often takes place not in homes but tourist facilities.

Beşiktaş Mayor Rıza Akpolat, who was detained on Monday, will today provide a statement to the investigating prosecutor, who will decide whether to refer him to court or release him.

The Turkish Medical Association described the recent developments as “a sign that both the people’s right to vote and stand for election is being deliberately and constantly being disregarded, and that the judiciary system is being weaponized in line with political interests”.

İmralı delegation member DEM MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder: “We will apply for a second İmralı Prison meeting next week”

The 35% increase will impact 7 million people who use public transport in Istanbul.

Turkish Chief Rabbinate Foundation: ““We are deeply saddened to have lost our esteemed Leader, our Chief Rabbi Rav Isak Haleva, who led our Community for many years.”

According to the statement of the Interior Ministry, Akdeniz District Municipality Assembly Members Nuriye Arslan, Özgür Çağlar, Hikmet Bakırhan and Neslihan Oruç were also dismissed.

Press organizations: “Our work conditions must be secured, the pressure of unemployment must cease”.

MLSA Co-Director Barış Altıntaş: “The license demanded from Cumhuriyet newspaper for its YouTube channel shows how hungry RTÜK is to expand its scope of inspection”.

DEM Party Mersin Member of Parliament Ali Bozan said, “Police told us, ‘Government trustees have been appointed to Akdeniz Municipality, the decree will be published on the Mersin Governorate website. The appointment of trustees to elected positions constitutes usurpation, it is the theft of the people’s will”.

The BİA Media Monitoring Report aims to pinpoint the specific tendencies in repression targeting journalists, and reveals how, in the detention of 31 journalists in the last 3 months, judiciary control measures have been abused, and although there are no longer legal grounds for it, censorship continues with brazen opportunism.

The Eğitim Sen Union has filed a court case for the cancellation of the protocol signed between the Ministry of National Education and Ülkü Ocakları, the youth wing of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The Union’s general secretary Zülküf Güneş said, “This organization has a dark past and is known for the murders it has committed, it is concerning that it is now involved in education”.

Although 85 days have passed since Rojin Kabaiş’s death, her hour of death has still not been determined, and it is still not known how she was swept 24 kilometres, where the yellow slipper she was wearing is and to whom the two different DNA samples traced on her remains belong to.

The first meeting for the year 2025 of the Media Literacy Coalition, organized within the scope of the “Our Media” project, of which the IPS Communication Foundation/bianet is a partner, was held online on January 6.

The remains of journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, who were killed in Syria, will be handed over at the Semelka Border Crossing between Syria and Iraq. However, the delegation from Turkey has not been allowed to pass into Iraq for 18 hours.

Following the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the delegation will meet with representatives of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi).

An appeal court of the Kurdistan Region of the Republic of Iraq has dropped charges against Rojnews editor Sulaiman Ahmad, who had been kidnapped and arrested on 1 October 2023 by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and later sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment.

Today, January 6, is the day for Christmas celebrations according to the calendar of the Armenian Church.