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Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Banned in Turkey
The screening of Lars von Trier’s latest movie “Nymphomaniac” has been banned across Turkey’s movie theaters by Evaluation Classification Higher Council.
3 March 2014
70 Workers Killed on the Job in February
According to a report released by Worker Health and Work Security Assembly, at least 70 workers were killed from work-related injuries in February 2014. The casualties included 5 children and 4 women.
3 March 2014
“Phone Recordings” Rule This Week’s Humor Magazines
Penguen, Uykusuz and Leman humor magazines featured the alleged phone conversations between PM Erdoğan and his son Bilal Erdoğan on their covers.
28 February 2014
Authorities Inquire Kurdish Instructing Teachers
Education Ministry officials in Diyarbakır province allegedly ordered the list of teachers who taught in Kurdish on February 21, International Mother Language Day.
28 February 2014
Minister Sons and Reza Zarrab Released
A Turkish court released 5 suspects including sons of cabinet ministers and Reza Zarrab who have been arrested within Turkey’s corruption probe investigation, leaving no jailed defendants in the case.
28 February 2014
CHP Throws Fake Euro Banknotes in Demonstration
CHP held a demonstration in Taksim Square, protesting the alleged phone recordings between PM Erdoğan and his son in the aftermath of December 17 Corruption Probe Raids.
26 February 2014
Nilay Vardar
Gezi Protestor’s Death Not Found “Suspicious”
Prosecutors decided not to follow charges in the death of Serdar Kadakal, a Kadıköy resident who allegedly died due to extreme use of tear gas after a Gezi Resistance protest in Istanbul.
26 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
ECHR: Uğur Kaymaz’s Right to Life Violated
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey violated the right of Uğur Kaymaz (13) and Ahmet Kaymaz who were killed by a police raid in Mardin province in 2004.
26 February 2014
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
PM’s Phone Recordings Views Outnumber Katy Perry's
Around 1,5 million users have viewed the video of phone call recordings allegedly between PM Erdoğan and his son on the first day of Corruption Probe. The video, released by several users on YouTube, has surpassed Katy Perry’s song Dark Horse.
25 February 2014
Thousands of Phones Allegedly “Tapped” in Turkey
At least 3,064 notable people’s phones have allegedly been tapped in Turkey within an investigation approved by a prosecutor and launched after an anonymous complaint.
24 February 2014
Abdullah Cömert’s Shooter Policeman Requested For Arrest
A further analysis on surveillance cameras have detected the identity of the policeman who shot Abdullah Cömert dead with a gas bomb canister in the Gezi Resistance. Cömert family filed a lawsuit to a prosecutor for the arrest of suspect.
21 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
Crime: Tweeting, Victim: Prime Minister
29 students have been ordered to stand trial for sending tweet messages including “They are torturing, please go and help”. The indictment only cited PM Erdoğan as the victim of the aforementioned tweets.
21 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
Meet Istanbul’s LGBTI Candidates
bianet is releasing the list of candidates who will be running for the upcoming municipal assembly elections on March 30.
21 February 2014
Police Receives State of Emergency-Like Mandate in Ankara
Ankara 10th Peace Court approved a list of mandates allowing the police to search any individual, vehicle and belongings for 15 days in 6 different neighborhoods without a further court order.
20 February 2014
Court Admits PM's Motion to Intervene the “Dictator" Case
4 defendants stood trial for calling PM Erdoğan a “dictator” on Tuesday. PM Erdoğan's motion to join the case was granted as “he was affected”, advocate Bolaç said that the word “dictator” was within the limits of free expression.
20 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
In Dersim, A Rainbow Appears Under the Moonlight
Roştîya Asmê, the name of the first LGBTI association in Dersim province, means “moonlight” in Zazaki. “Homophobia is the same everywhere. Every region calls hate by a different name. We should not be deceived by Dersim’s political stance,” Loren Elva told bianet.
20 February 2014
Yasemin Aykaç
First Reaction to Internet Censorship From News Websites
The first reaction towards the implementation of the internet censorship bill came from Turkey’s news websites with putting black tapes on their logos.
19 February 2014
2013 Media: Arrests, Assaults, Editorial Interventions, Layoffs
While 59 journalists and 23 publishers were arrested in 2013; 186 journalists, 1 media outlet and 2 internet sites were subjected to attacks. ECHR ordered to Turkey to pay 198,935 euros in FoE related cases. 143 media workers lost their jobs.
18 February 2014
Erol Önderoğlu
Internet and Democracy
Freedom of speech counts as cornerstone of democracy. In Norway the internet is considered as an free arena where all can participate with own ideas. This is not the same in Turkey.
17 February 2014
Deniz Alan Held
Gezi Park and Workers
The ‘overwhelmed’ masses, the majority of whom are composed of paid employees, displayed a reaction against the government, which had intervened in citizens’ lifestyles and whose unlawful policies were based on unequal growth and development. This reaction showed us that class struggle was not a phenomenon to be relegated merely to the workplace, but also in the urban sphere and daily life.
14 February 2014
Kıvanç Eliaçık
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Phone Intervention Rules This Week's Humor Magazines
The majority of Turkey's prominent humor magazines allocated their covers to the recent phone call intervention of PM Erdoğan to remove a news ticker on Habetürk TV.
13 February 2014
Modern Day Political Nomad and His Turkey Saga
Michael Dickinson, an artist who has been deported after facing prosecution for his caricatures on PM Erdoğan, moved to an occupation house in London.
13 February 2014
Figen Güneş
“Calling Fatih” is Punishable By Up to 5 Years in Prison
Advocate Tora Pekin told bianet that PM Erdoğan’s phone call intervention to Habertürk TV is punishable by 1 to 5 years of prison according to Turkish Penal Code Article 124/3.
13 February 2014
Ekin Karaca
Are Missing Evidence Kept on Judial Escrows?
Advocates of Bayrampaşa case requested an investigation in judicial escrows, saying that authorities attempted to vanish evidence related to Turkey's "Operation Back to Life". The aforementioned evidence is missing for 14 years.
12 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
Media Truth Commission Against “Yes, Sir" Journalism
bianet interviewed journalists Yavuz Baydar, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Amberin Zaman on the recent intervention of PM Erdoğan to Habertürk television by making a phone call during his trip to Morocco. All agreed that the government’s pressure on the press is overt now.
12 February 2014
Elif Akgül
ECHR Convicts Turkey of Torturing Advocate
The European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of “inadequate investigation” and “ill-treatment and torture” in the case of Gülizar Tuncer, a human rights advocate.
11 February 2014
Ayça Söylemez
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Bilingual Pamphlet to Prevent Children Rights Abuses
Turned down by officials for collaboration, Diyarbakır Bar Association Children Rights Center distributed a bilingual pamphlet - in Turkish and Kurdish - that aimed to inform children a list of contacts in case they were subjected to violence.
11 February 2014
Yüce Yöney
Social Security to Cover Gender Reassignment Surgery
Turkey’s Social Security Administration (SGK) declared that it covered several gender reassignment operations including protheses.
11 February 2014
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
Academics and Jurists Warn the Government
In a statement signed by 150 academics, most of them professors, and jurists declared that Turkey has fallen into “circumstances similar to an Extraordinary Situation".
10 February 2014
Today's Zaman Reporter Zeynalov Deported
Mahir Zeynalov, an Azerbaijan national who worked at Today’s Zaman newspaper for 4 years, have been deported after facing prosecution related to a tweet.
7 February 2014
Parliament Passes Internet Censorship Bill
Turkey’s Parliament passed the bill on the “protection of private life”, a regulation that gave authorities extraordinary competencies to make URL-based restrictions like in China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
6 February 2014
Men Kill 23 Women in January
A compilation made by bianet revealed that male perpetrators left 23 women dead in January 2014. While 26 percent of women were slain for seeking divorce, 17 percent were killed in the name of honor.
5 February 2014
Çiçek Tahaoğlu
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