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‘How Many People are Behind Bars for “Insulting the President”?’
Submitting a parliamentary question regarding the cases of insulting the President, HDP MP Danış Beştaş has referred to a citizen who was sentenced to 2 years, 4 months in prison for saying, “Forget about the gasoline, we have the most expensive President.”
13 June 2019
Foreign Minister: S-400 Missiles to Come to Turkey
Çavuşoğlu has said, "No one can give an ultimatum to Turkey. Turkey has purchased the S-400 defense system from Russia, as our President said," in a joint press conference with his counterpart from France.
13 June 2019
Journalists Pınar Gayıp and Semiha Şahin Released to House Arrest
Etkin News Agency (ETHA) editor Semiha Şahin and reporter Pınar Gayıp, who have been arrested pending trial for 14 months, have been released to house arrest. Their next hearing will he held on October 15, 2019.
13 June 2019
Tansu Pişkin
150 Thousand People Sign the Project for Single-Use Plastic Ban in Turkey
150 thousand people have so far signed the project run by Greenpeace Mediterranean to ban single-use plastics in Turkey. The EU signed the agreement introducing an EU-wide ban on single-use plastics on December 20, 2018.
13 June 2019
HDP Co-Chair: We Declared Mobilization in İstanbul for AKP to Lose
"They staged a coup in İstanbul. Every single vote is very valuable. One vote sets fascism back," Buldan said.
13 June 2019
Assaulted Journalist Yavuz Selim Demirağ to be Imprisoned for Insulting Erdoğan
Journalist Yavuz Selim Demirağ, who was assaulted in front of his house on May 10, will be imprisoned today to serve his 11-month prison term for allegedly insulting the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2010.
13 June 2019
Erdoğan Says They May Not 'Let Opposition Mayors Work'
Pointing out to his party's majority in the municipal councils of İstanbul and Ankara, the President has said, "When you don't do a right thing, they will of course won't let you work. If you do a right thing, they let you work."
13 June 2019
33 People Detained for Hasankeyf Statement Released
33 people, who were taken into custody yesterday for attempting to protest the Ilısu Dam project that is soon to engulf the ancient city of Hasankeyf, have been released after an identity check at the district security directorate.
13 June 2019
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
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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
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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
‘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
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