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Global Peace Index 2019: Turkey Ranks 152nd Among 163 Countries
The Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released its Global Peace Index 2019. Accordingly, Turkey has ranked 152nd in the list, deteriorating by three ranks since 2018 and ranking worse than civil war-ridden Sudan.
13 June 2019
Academic Sentenced to 1 Year, 3 Months in Prison
Academic for Peace Sezai Ozan Zeybek has been sentenced to 1 year, 3 months in prison on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization.” The announcement of the verdict has been deferred by the İstanbul 26th Heavy Penal Court.
13 June 2019
Tansu Pişkin
YSK Rejects AKP Appeal on Election Council Chairs
The election body has rejected an appeal by the AKP against ruling that investigated election council chairs will also take part in the İstanbul election rerun.
12 June 2019
Journalist Ayşe Düzkan Released
Feminist journalist and writer Ayşe Düzkan, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch case and arrested on January 29, has been released from Eskişehir Prison.
12 June 2019
‘Legislation Should be Put into Effect, Inspections Should be Effectively Conducted’
While HDP MP Günay has requested a parliamentary investigation into child labor, HDP MP Gergerlioğlu has shared statistics on the issue at Parliament. Main opposition CHP MP Tanrıkulu has also released a statement regarding child labor.
12 June 2019
'Forestation Should be Done in Right Place, Right Time'
The government says it planted 4 billion trees in 15 years, while the forestry report says that the number of plants is not what matters.
12 June 2019
Lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan Set Out for İmralı Prison
Lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from the Asrın Law Bureau have set out for İmralı Prison to meet Öcalan for the third time since May 2, 2019. Before that, he was not allowed to receive lawyers’ visitation for eight years.
12 June 2019
Police Intervention Against Hasankeyf Statement: 33 People Detained in Batman
Police have intervened against the members of HDP Batman Youth Assembly who protested the Ilısu Dam project that will engulf the ancient city of Hasankeyf. HDP Batman MP Acar Başaran has denounced the intervention as “unconstitutional”.
12 June 2019
Russia Sets Date for S-400 Delivery, Defense Minister to Talk to US Counterpart
Russia has announced that the S-400 missile systems will be delivered to Turkey in July. Meanwhile, Minister of Defense Akar will talk to Shanahan on Pentagon's letter.
12 June 2019
Families Who Lost Their Loved Ones in Çorlu Train Derailment: We Won’t Let Unlawfulness
The families who lost their loved ones in Çorlu train derailment in 2018 will appeal to the Constitutional Court against the verdict of non-prosecution previously given for the chief conductor, engine drivers, senior officials and bureaucrats.
12 June 2019
TurkStat Not Conducted Child Labor Survey For Seven Years
Ababay Tosyalı from ILO has said that up to date data is important to direct studies for ending child employment.
12 June 2019
Ayşegül Özbek
İmamoğlu: Yıldırım Wanted Questions Beforehand, Yıldırım: He Should Apologize
Speaking ahead of their live TV debate, İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral candidate İmamoğlu has alleged that AKP’s candidate Yıldırım requested the questions beforehand. Yıldırım has answered, “İstanbul doesn’t deserve ugly politics. He should apologize.”
12 June 2019
2 Soldiers Lose Their Lives, 2 Soldiers Wounded in Dersim
Two Gendarmerie Specialized Sergeants have lost their lives in a conflict between security forces and the PKK in Dersim. Two soldiers have also been wounded.
12 June 2019
Men Kill 27 Women in May
Men have killed at least 27 women and three children who were with the women in May. Men have also raped at least three women, forced 64 women to sex work, harassed 28 women and sexually abused at least 39 children.
12 June 2019
Evrim Kepenek
Attacked Family to Move Armenia from İstanbul
The Armenian family who was attacked last month have announced that they will move to Armenia. The attackers had said, "This is just the beginning."
11 June 2019
‘We Heard That There is Also a Trustee in İstanbul, We will Sweep Him Away as Well’
Speaking at the group meeting of his party, HDP Co-Chair Temelli has touched upon the speech of AKP’s Yıldırım that he made in Kurdish in Diyarbakır. Temelli has said, “We heard that there is also a trustee in İstanbul, we will sweep him away as well.”
11 June 2019
Pentagon's Ultimatum Evokes Memories of 'Johnson Letter' in Turkey
The two countries' relations reached the lowest point at the height of cold war in 1964 when President Johnson threatened Turkey to abandon its plans for intervention in Cyprus otherwise it will not be protected by NATO against a possible Soviet intervention.
11 June 2019
At Least 26 Child Workers Lose Their Lives in the First Five Months of 2019
According to a report released by the Laborers’ Health and Occupational Safety (İSİG) Assembly on the occasion of June 12 World Day Against Child Labor, at least 26 child workers have lost their lives in the first five months of 2019.
11 June 2019
Ecology Association Warns Against Forest Fires, Raises Concerns Over Deliberate Ones
Foreseeing that the risk of forest fires will increase as the summer has come, the Ecology Association of Turkey has released a written statement, raising concerns over the fires that break out “from negligence” as well as the ones set on purpose.
11 June 2019
İmamoğlu Announces Election Promises for İstanbul
The opposition's candidate has promised aid programs for students, children and the poor ahead of the repeat elections for the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
11 June 2019
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‘Parading is not Enough, We Want the Whole City!’
The detailed programs of the 7th İzmir LGBTI+ Pride Week and the 3rd Antalya Pride Week have been announced. LGBTI+s will be on the streets of İzmir between June 17 and 23 and on the streets of Antalya from June 14 to 16.
11 June 2019
US House of Representatives Calls Turkey to Cancel S-400 Purchase
While the House approved a bill that calls Turkey to choose between the S-400 and the F-35, pilots from Turkey has been barred from accessing the aircraft, according to the US media.
11 June 2019
‘It is not a Dream to Save Hasankeyf, We Can Hold a Referendum’
As the Ilısu Dam reservoir is about to be filled and engulf the ancient city of Hasankeyf, Ercan Ayboğa from the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive has spoken to bianet and suggested holding a referendum: “It is not a dream to save Hasankeyf.”
11 June 2019
Pınar Tarcan
Erdoğan's Wife Presents 'Zero Waste Project' by Ministry of Environment
Emine Erdoğan presented the project at an event at the presidential palace. A recent report by the WWF revealed that Turkey is the largest polluter of the Mediterranean Sea.
10 June 2019
First Hearing of Academic for Peace Tuna Altınel to be Held on July 30
Academic for Peace Tuna Altınel, who was arrested after the Lyon Consulate General of Turkey took down a statement, requesting that “a restriction be placed on his passport and a legal action be taken against him”, will have his first hearing on July 30.
10 June 2019
Tansu Pişkin
Allegations of Tuberculosis Epidemic in Repatriation Center on Parliamentary Agenda
HDP MP Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the allegations of tuberculosis epidemic among the refugees held in Iğdır Repatriation Center and asked the conditions and medical treatment opportunities of the camp.
10 June 2019
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AKP and CHP's İstanbul Candidates to Face Off in Unprecedented Debate
The ruling AKP's Binali Yıldırım and the opposition's Ekrem İmamoğlu will face off on TV ahead of the June 23 repeat elections in an unprecedented debate in the 17-year AKP era.
10 June 2019
Southern Cyprus Issues Arrest Warrant Against Turkey’s Drill Ship Fatih
The administration of Southern Cyprus has issued an arrest warrant against the ones working in Fatih Drill Ship sent to Mediterranean by Turkey and officials of the companies working in cooperation with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation.
10 June 2019
LGBTİ+ Pride Week 2019: 'Economy? What's that?'
The 27th İstanbul LGBTİ+ Pride Week will be held between June 24 and June 30, under the theme of the looming economic crisis: "We have been experiencing this crisis every second in the jobs we can't get, in the homes we can't live."
10 June 2019
Solidarity with Academic for Peace at Airport Against the Warrant Issued for Her
Academic for Peace Gizem Sayın, who was abroad for her academic works, will be detained at İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport on June 11 as a warrant was issued against her at her third hearing on March 6. Sayın will be released after her deposition.
10 June 2019
Mudanya Municipality Forces Syrians out of Beach in Bursa
Upon the instruction of Mudanya Mayor Hayri Türkyılmaz, municipal police officers have forced Syrians out of beach in Mudanya, Bursa. Similar incidents have also been reported from Gemlik, another seaside district in Bursa.
10 June 2019
Volkan Topalak
‘Kurdistan’ Statement by AKP’s Binali Yıldırım
Ruling AKP’s İstanbul Metropolitan Mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım has clarified his Kurdistan remarks: “Kurdistan is a word that was used by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to refer to representatives coming from the region during the struggle of independence.”
10 June 2019
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