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Nolle Prosequi For Torturers in Diyarbakır Prison

Nolle Prosequi For Torturers in Diyarbakır Prison

Diyarbakır Prosecutor’s Office issued a “nolle prosequi” ruling on the complaints of 1500 applicants related to torture allegations in Diyarbakır Prison No. 5 during Turkey’s 1980 military coup. Chairman of 78’ers Association in Diyarbakır said they would object the ruling.

7 July 2014 Ayça Söylemez

Police “Requests” Removal of Content

Police “Requests” Removal of Content

Police authorities in Izmir province sent a letter to Ege'nin Sesi newspaper, requesting the removal of an article related to the Sivas Massacre. Newspaper’s editor-in-chief, on the other hand, said it was a blow of press freedom.

7 July 2014 Elif Akgül

Ali İsmail Korkmaz Foundation Established

Ali İsmail Korkmaz Foundation Established

The family members of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a Gezi Resistance protestors killed in Eskişehir, established a foundation in the name of their son. “Our depature point was my brother’s activities,” Gürkan Korkmaz told bianet.

7 July 2014 Beyza Kural

Call for Presidential Candidates: Declare Your Families’ Assets

Call for Presidential Candidates: Declare Your Families’ Assets

Transparency Organization demanded a juridical regulation for presidential candidates to share their assets with public opinion. It called the candidates for declaring their first degree relatives’ assets.

122 Cancer Patients Across Turkey's Prisons

122 Cancer Patients Across Turkey's Prisons

The Ministry of Justice explained 122 cancer patients are in prison. The ministry also mentioned they had taken 13,980 complaint applications from the prisoners, their relatives and various authorities since 2002.

“Gov't is the Offender of Okyanus’s Suicide”

“Gov't is the Offender of Okyanus’s Suicide”

17-year-old trans male Okyanus Efe Özyavuz committed suicide in Izmir. Saying the offender of the suicide is the government and society, LGBTI organizations protested simultaneously in three different provinces at 7 p.m. [in local time].

Disabled People to Become Prosecutor, Judge in Turkey

Disabled People to Become Prosecutor, Judge in Turkey

According to an article of an upcoming omnibus bill, disabled people can be a prosecutor and a judge - a discriminatory practice that has been discussed at the parliament’s agenda as well as High Council of Judges and Prosecutors reports.

4 July 2014 Nilay Vardar

Presidential Candidates Declare Their Assets

Presidential Candidates Declare Their Assets

Presidential candidates Selahattin Demirtaş, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared their assets to Turkey’s Higher Board of Elections.

ISIL Releases Lorry Drivers in Mosul

ISIL Releases Lorry Drivers in Mosul

ISIL released the Turkish drivers who were taken as hostages since June 10. Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that no one had been delivered to Turkey yet.

“More Journalists Will Be Laid Off”

“More Journalists Will Be Laid Off”

Pelin Batu has been laid off from her post at Milliyet newspaper. "Why a popular leader who can hardly keep 50 percent of his electors under control, is afraid of three or five journalists, columnists and reporters,” she told bianet.

3 July 2014 Elif Akgül

70 Prisons House “Sponged Rooms” in Turkey

70 Prisons House “Sponged Rooms” in Turkey

Turkey's Justice Minister admitted that there were sponged rooms in 70 prisons. These rooms are notorious in press for its torture videos. Sponged rooms are being watched for 24 hours and the rooms’ toilets are not surrounded.

3 July 2014 Ayça Söylemez

141 Workers Killed on the Job in June

141 Workers Killed on the Job in June

At least 141 workers lost their lives according to Worker Health and Work Security Assembly. The death toll in 2014 climbed to 951.

Men Kill 17 Women in June

Men Kill 17 Women in June

Male violence left 17 women/teenager girls killed and 26 raped in June 2014. 17.6 percent of women were killed for seeking divorce. During the first six months of 2014, men killed 129 women.

3 July 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Supreme Court of Appeals Ratifies Kuray’s Life Sentence

Supreme Court of Appeals Ratifies Kuray’s Life Sentence

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals announced its verdict on Sarp Kuray, a convict who has been sentenced to life despite ECHR ruling that his trial wasn’t held fairly. Kuray was sentenced to life again.

Sivas Massacre Victims Remembered

Sivas Massacre Victims Remembered

A group of activists marched to Madımak Hotel in the eastern province of Sivas to commemorate the killing of 35 intellectuals in 1993.

30 Released, 2 Declined in KCK Diyarbakır Case

30 Released, 2 Declined in KCK Diyarbakır Case

Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court released 30 defendants yesterday while declining the release of two as “PKK still resumed its activities”.

Campaign Aims to Restart Presidential Debates on TV

Campaign Aims to Restart Presidential Debates on TV

İbrahim Betil launched a change.org campaign urging presidential candidates Demirtaş, İhsanoğlu and Erdoğan to discuss on certain issues on television at least two times before the elections.

2 July 2014 Ekin Karaca

Rıdvan Aktar Laid Off by CNNTürk

Rıdvan Aktar Laid Off by CNNTürk

Rıdvan Aktar, well-known journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

2 July 2014 Ekin Karaca

Rıdvan Aktar Laid Off by CNNTürk

Rıdvan Aktar Laid Off by CNNTürk

Rıdvan Aktar, famous journalist and writer, has been laid off from his post at CNNTürk. The channel also removed Aktar’s TV programs “Hayatın Tanığı” and “Habere Dair”.

2 July 2014 Ekin Karaca

Tuğrul Eryılmaz and Erol Önderoğlu Receive TGC Award

Tuğrul Eryılmaz and Erol Önderoğlu Receive TGC Award

Journalists Association of Turkey awarded bianet-affiliated journalists Önderoğlu and Eryılmaz its annual “Press Freedom” Award. A ceremony will be held on July 24 - Turkey’s “Struggle Day on Press Freedom”.

2 July 2014 Elif Akgül

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“Prisons Aren't Convenient For Children”

“Prisons Aren't Convenient For Children”

Members of Juvenile Prisons Must Be Banned Initiative raised their voices with the participation of children. “Juvenile prisons must be closed and not children,” said Betül Kaplan, spokesperson of the initiative.

1 July 2014 Yeliz Özşen

Istanbul’s Burnt Down Historical Places in Last 10 Years

Istanbul’s Burnt Down Historical Places in Last 10 Years

bianet compiled a chronicle of fire in Istanbul’s historical places within 10 years. Because Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality listed the 648 fires from 1510 to 2000 but they did not listed the later ones.

1 July 2014 Nilay Vardar

Readers Launch Campaign For Radikal 2 Supplement

Readers Launch Campaign For Radikal 2 Supplement

After Radikal newspaper finished its print edition, Radikal 2 readers launched a campaign against the cancellation of newspaper’s op-ed supplement.

Istanbul Pride Parade: “We are Here, My Love!”

Istanbul Pride Parade: “We are Here, My Love!”

Thousands of activists flocked downtown Istanbul yesterday, covering Beyoğlu district with the colors of rainbow.

30 June 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

MANISLAM: Is An Ungendered Islam Possible?

MANISLAM: Is An Ungendered Islam Possible?

Are the men of Islamic countries really happy? How do they carry that burden, how do they cover everything they are expected to be? What is the real problem; the book or the interpretations? Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, seeks answers to those questions in the last film episode of her Islam Trilogy.

30 June 2014 Deniz Alan Held

Long Term Inmates Apply For Suspension After Sledgehammer Ruling

Long Term Inmates Apply For Suspension After Sledgehammer Ruling

Hasan Polat and Sami Özbil, two inmates who have been jailed for 23 and 16 years respectively despite ECHR verdict on “lack of fair trial”, have applied for their suspension of arrest term, saying that the recent Sledgehammer ruling on retrial must set example.

AKP Deputy Chair: If Kurdistan Is Founded, It will Be Our Brother

AKP Deputy Chair: If Kurdistan Is Founded, It will Be Our Brother

“The establishment of a Kurdish government in North Iraq will not annoy us," AKP Deputy Chairman Hüseyin Çelik said.

No Therapy But Torture in Turkey's Sanatoriums

No Therapy But Torture in Turkey's Sanatoriums

Having visited sanatoriums in Turkey for two years, RUHISAK reported the violation of rights. The only solution for fixing these places is to change the mentality which does not see the patients as individuals.

27 June 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

ECHR: Kumkapı Removal Centre Is “Inhumane”

ECHR: Kumkapı Removal Centre Is “Inhumane”

ECHR found Turkey guilty of violating the “ban of torture and ill-treatment” in the case of Zalim Yarashonen, a Russian citizen who had been kept in Kumkapı Removal Centre in Istanbul for six months.

27 June 2014 Ayça Söylemez

TİHV, İHD: 5,848 Subjected to Police Violence

TİHV, İHD: 5,848 Subjected to Police Violence

Human Rights Association (IHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV) issued a joint press release at IHD Istanbul Headquarters on 26 June - the International Day in support of Victims of Torture.

27 June 2014 Pınar Ağabeyoğlu

Human Rights Activists Arrive in Ankara For Sick Inmates

Human Rights Activists Arrive in Ankara For Sick Inmates

Members of Human Rights Association will march to Turkey’s Parliament and meet authorities today to demand the liberation of sick prisoners.

“I Can Run For President if My Party Approves”

“I Can Run For President if My Party Approves”

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş said that he could run for president in the condition that his party assembly approved his candidacy.