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“The Government Doesn’t Partner Up on Humanitarian Aids”

“The Government Doesn’t Partner Up on Humanitarian Aids”

HDP’s Urfa province deputy İbrahim Ayhan told bianet that their request to make a joint aid campaign with the local governor’s office officials and AFAD has been rejected, saying that their is an urgent need for food and tents.

25 September 2014 Nilay Vardar

What Happened to Media Ban After ISIS Released Refugees?

What Happened to Media Ban After ISIS Released Refugees?

While the media ban on the ISIS raid to Turkey’s Consulate in Mosul is still underway, several news stories appeared on the Turkish media regarding the release of hostages.

25 September 2014 Elif Akgül

DIHA Reporter Faces “DHKP/C Trial”

DIHA Reporter Faces “DHKP/C Trial”

DIHA reporter Nuri Akman was ordered to stand trial for charges related to “being an illegal organization member” and “propaganda” along with 18 students from İnönü University. The first hearing is set to December 18.

25 September 2014

Kürdi Der Awaiting Response For Kurdish-Teaching Schools

Kürdi Der Awaiting Response For Kurdish-Teaching Schools

Kürdi Der Chairman Selahattin Gültekin said they have been awaiting a response regarding the reopening of Kurdish-teaching schools despite Education Minister’s statement.

24 September 2014 Yüce Yöney

CNN Türk Removes Enver Aysever’s Critical Show

CNN Türk Removes Enver Aysever’s Critical Show

Initially reduced to one day per week, Enver Aysever’s Critical Show has been completely removed by CNN Türk.

24 September 2014

Artists Call For Solidarity With Ezidi People

Artists Call For Solidarity With Ezidi People

Various artists including Şevval Sam, Engin Günaydın, and Meltem Cumbul took part in a video project to call for solidarity with Ezidi people who ran away from their homes to Turkey.

24 September 2014

“Limiting Freedoms to One Field is Not Ethical”

“Limiting Freedoms to One Field is Not Ethical”

Abdullah Karahan from Eğitim-Sen Union criticized the recent allowing of students to wear headscarves in schools, reminding the compulsory religious classes and closure of Kurdish-language teaching schools.

23 September 2014 Yüce Yöney

ECHR Convicts Turkey of Violating Right to Fair Trial

ECHR Convicts Turkey of Violating Right to Fair Trial

The European Court of Human Right convicted Turkey of violating right to fair trial in the case of Cevat Soysal who was convicted to 18 years and 9 months of prison by Turkish courts of being a PKK leader.

23 September 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Twitter to Withhold Account of Today’s Zaman Editor

Twitter to Withhold Account of Today’s Zaman Editor

Twitter reportedly sent a message to Today’s Zaman editor Celil Sağır that his account “will be withheld”. While twitter objected to the ruling court, advocate Odabaşı said “accounts can’t be withheld due to insult or defamation”.

23 September 2014

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

İzmir 22nd Assize Court ordered the acquittal of 27 out of 28 defendants charged with “igniting public to violating laws and insulting” during the Gezi Resistance.

23 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

Öcalan: Not Only Rojavans, But All Kurds Must Resist

Öcalan: Not Only Rojavans, But All Kurds Must Resist

Meeting with his attorney Mazlum Dinç yesterday on Imrali Island, PKK leader gave the following message: “Regarding the attacks on ISIS, all Kurds must adapt themselves to the conditions of this highly intense war”.

23 September 2014

Istanbul’s People March For Climate

Istanbul’s People March For Climate

Hundreds of Istanbulites took the streets yesterday within “People’s Climate March” in order to remind the city dwellers on the UN Climate Summit 2014 on Wednesday in NYC.

22 September 2014 Elif Akgül

Institute Releases Videos to Promote Laz Language

Institute Releases Videos to Promote Laz Language

Turkey’s Laz Language Institute released a series of videos to promote the elective Laz language courses for the elementary school level. bianet interviewed İsmail Bucaklişi from the institute.

19 September 2014 Beyza Kural

İbrahim Şahin’s TRT

İbrahim Şahin’s TRT

Assigned as Samsun Governor, TRT’s General Manager İbrahim Şahin is leaving behind his post with a series of controversies. bianet made a compilation.

19 September 2014 Elif Akgül

39 Child Workers Killed on the Job in 2014

39 Child Workers Killed on the Job in 2014

According to Worker Health and Occupational Safety Assembly, at least 39 child workers lost their lives on the job in 2014. While the youngest worker was aged 6, most cases were reported in the agriculture sector.

19 September 2014

Attack on AA’s Diyarbakır Reporter Condemned

Attack on AA’s Diyarbakır Reporter Condemned

Aydın Bolkan from Free Journalists Organization based in Diyarbakır condemned the attack on Anatolia Agency reporters during the Kurdish-teaching school sealing crisis, saying that “they didn’t accept the violence and they were annoyed”.

18 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

Issuing a verdict on the application of 14 families with Alevi background, ECHR ruled that “Turkish education system must have a basis respecting the families’ beliefs”.

18 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

Murdered journalists, jailed journalists, recent releases, attacks, threats, impediments, prosecutions and trials; ‘’defamation’’, personal rights and complaints, bans, closures, seizures, PM, ECHR, RTÜK and Gezi Resistance…

18 September 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

7 Public Schools Burnt Down in Cizre, Yüksekova

7 Public Schools Burnt Down in Cizre, Yüksekova

Following the sealing of 3 schools planned to teach in Kurdish, 7 public schools were burnt down in Cizre and Yüksekova districts.

17 September 2014

Lady Gaga: Hard to Be Gay; Don’t Be Ashamed, Be Proud

Lady Gaga: Hard to Be Gay; Don’t Be Ashamed, Be Proud

“I travelled around the world. It is really hard being a gay. Don’t be ashamed of who you are and be proud of yourself. Because God loves us all,” Lady Gaga told her audience at last night’s concert in Istanbul.

17 September 2014

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IMC TV Lays Off Trans Reporter Demishevich

IMC TV Lays Off Trans Reporter Demishevich

Turkey’s first trans TV reporter Michelle Demishevich has been laid by her employers who said that “they didn’t have anything to do with her gender but she didn’t fit the professional morals”.

17 September 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Turkish-Kurdish Peace: Has the Hour Come?

Turkish-Kurdish Peace: Has the Hour Come?

Could Kurdish voices become part of the political mainstream in Turkey; and could the PKK have its status as “terrorist” removed?

16 September 2014 William Gourlay

From Sinjar Mounts to Abandoned Villages

From Sinjar Mounts to Abandoned Villages

Some of the Ezidi refugees are moving to the villages in the southeastern villages abandoned due to Turkish state violence during the 1990s. Maybe they will soon be permanent residents there.

16 September 2014 Nilay Vardar

New Charges on Journalists in Turkey

New Charges on Journalists in Turkey

Neither insult, nor breach of confidentiality, nor propaganda…It is time for prosecutors to charge journalists with “property damage” and “trespassing”.

15 September 2014

Youngster Dies After Checkpoint Protests in Lice

Youngster Dies After Checkpoint Protests in Lice

Abdullah Akkulu, a 19 year old protestor who was shut by the soldier gunfire and stayed in coma for 3 months, died yesterday in the southeastern district of Lice. At the day of the incident, Ramazan Baran and Baki Akdemir were also killed.

15 September 2014

Mardin Bus Terminal’s New Passengers: Ezidi People

Mardin Bus Terminal’s New Passengers: Ezidi People

Having run away from ISIS in Sinjar, Ezidi people found refuge in a intercity bus terminal in the southeastern province of Mardin. However, nobody yet knows where this journey will end.

15 September 2014 Nilay Vardar

Museum of Shame Opens in Ankara

Museum of Shame Opens in Ankara

Launched with the slogan “Freedom and Hopes Still Standing”, Turkey’s Museum of Shame opened its doors with exhibitions telling the stories of victims from September 12 Military Coup as well as scenes from Gezi Resistance, Roboski, Rojava, Soma and Palestine.

12 September 2014

Permission Sought to Investigate Turkey’s Military Chief

Permission Sought to Investigate Turkey’s Military Chief

The Supreme Court of Appeals submitted a permission request to investigate Necdet Özel - Turkey’s military chief for “attempting to manipulate the judiciary and making political comments”.

12 September 2014

18 Days of Hunger Strike Only Helps 18 Kurdish Teachers

18 Days of Hunger Strike Only Helps 18 Kurdish Teachers

Waiting for an assignment for 2 years, Kurdish-language teachers have reacted against the education ministry’s opening of only 18 permanent positions.

12 September 2014 Nilay Vardar

çArşı to Stand Trial on December 16

çArşı to Stand Trial on December 16

Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court ordered members of soccer fan group çArşı to stand trial for charges related to “attempted coup” for their involvement of the Gezi Resistance.

12 September 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Films About Conscience Call Out to the Street

Films About Conscience Call Out to the Street

Hrant Dink Foundation is inviting everyone to tell a story on the faces of conscience in the street. You can upload your short movies until November 11.

11 September 2014

Victim Erdoğan, Suspect FoE

Victim Erdoğan, Suspect FoE

President Erdoğan’s lawyers filed complaints against journalists Sönmez and Dündar. In the past 6 months, a total of 52,740 liras of monetary fines and 208 years and 1 months if prison have been issued in cases where was the “victim”.

11 September 2014 Elif Akgül