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Elif Çermik, Hospitalized Due to Tear Gas, Dies At 64

Elif Çermik, Hospitalized Due to Tear Gas, Dies At 64

Elif Çermik, 64, lost her life this morning after being hospitalized due to tear gas exposition on December 22, 2013 during Istanbul Town Rally.

Constitutional Court: YouTube Ban is a "Right Violation"

Constitutional Court: YouTube Ban is a "Right Violation"

Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the ban on YouTube imposed by TIB authorities was a "right violation".

Popular Twitter User Receives 15 Months of Prison

Popular Twitter User Receives 15 Months of Prison

E. P., the owner of popular twitter user "Allah CC”, has been convicted to 15 months of prison for “overtly humiliating religious values accepted by a faction of the society”.

Police Preps for Gezi With 25K Officers, 50 TOMAs

Police Preps for Gezi With 25K Officers, 50 TOMAs

Istanbul Police Headquarters prepares to “close” part of Istanbul for May 31, the anniversary of the Gezi Resistance.

Journalist Convicted of Calling “Torturer”

Journalist Convicted of Calling “Torturer”

Nihat Behram was convicted in the insult trial for calling Istanbul’s Vice Police Commissioner on Terrorism Sedat Selim Ay, “a torturer and a rapist” in his column in Yurt newspaper.

29 May 2014 Beyza Kural

Journalists Support Karşı Newspaper’s Resistance

Journalists Support Karşı Newspaper’s Resistance

151 journalists released a statement in solidarity with Karşı newspaper staff who have resisted for two months in the newspaper premisses in order get their unpaid indemnities and wages.

Highlights From Gezi Resistance Prosecutions

Highlights From Gezi Resistance Prosecutions

Thousands of prosecutions have been launched against those who either attended or supported Turkey’s Gezi Resistance last year for charges related to “driving mock police tanks (POMA), passing by a street or carrying whistles in their trucks.

“I Want My Son and I Want Peace”

“I Want My Son and I Want Peace”

“When the funerals don’t come in, people think there’s peace. But mothers are still crying here. We want our children back, and we want peace,” Selami Erden, father of Fırat Aydın Eren who joined the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at age 15 told bianet.

28 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

PKK Kidnaps Chief Sergeant in Mardin

PKK Kidnaps Chief Sergeant in Mardin

PKK guerrillas kidnapped a chief army sergeant traveling from Mardin to Erzurum after blocking a highway between eastern provinces of Diyarbakır and Bingöl last night.

“We will Take the Squares on May 31”

“We will Take the Squares on May 31”

Taksim Dayanışması (Taksim Solidarity Group) declared that they will be in Taksim Square at the anniversary of Gezi Resistance.

27 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

“Academicians Must Freely Express Their Thoughts”

“Academicians Must Freely Express Their Thoughts”

Turkey will both renounce constitutional law professor Mustafa Erdoğan’s restitution for criticizing the Constitutional Court of Turkey about closing a political party, and also pay him 7,500 Euros for non-pecuniary damages.

27 May 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

The Museum of Thought Crimes Opens

The Museum of Thought Crimes Opens

“Initiative Against Thought Crimes (!?)” conducted the opening of the online Museum of Thought Crimes with the participation of Noam Chomsky via teleconference.

27 May 2014 Elif Akgül

“What Would Differ If A Gay was Slapped There?”

“What Would Differ If A Gay was Slapped There?”

The mashup photo of Taner Kurucan, a Soma resident who was allegedly slapped by PM Erdoğan during his visit, and Yasin Keskin, an LGBTI activist, went viral online. bianet interviewed Yasin Keskin.

27 May 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

No Arrest For Top Suspect in Ethem Sarısülük Case

No Arrest For Top Suspect in Ethem Sarısülük Case

Ahmet Şahbaz, top suspect in Ethem Sarısülük case, stood trial for the second time this morning. The court, on the other hand, rejected again the request for his arrest.

Latin American Radios Embrace the Public

Latin American Radios Embrace the Public

Alternative media and radio activist José Ignacio López Vigil: "There are many community radios in Latin America putting up a fight against mines and transnational corporations."

26 May 2014 Necati Sönmez

772 Child Workers Employed in Coal and Lignite Mines

772 Child Workers Employed in Coal and Lignite Mines

85.5 percent of child workers employed in coal and lignite mines as of 2012 year-end are working off-the-record according to TEPAV study.

“Fag” Tweet Fined

“Fag” Tweet Fined

Levent Pişkin, an LGBTI activist, has been fined due to his tweet “‘I’m a perfect fag and we are not going to learn being fag-ess from you’. Kisses.”

23 May 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

One More Death in Okmeydanı

One More Death in Okmeydanı

After the incidents related the murder of Uğur Kurt at the backyard of cemevi in Okmeydanı, an unidentified person lost his life. It was claimed that the explosion was caused by a handmade bomb.

“Snap the Photo!”

“Snap the Photo!”

İsa turned 18 and went down to the mine. Last Sunday was his 19th birthday. The father is a miner as well, “if you were able to see his face”, “you would say that don’t you feel ashamed for sending him to the mine” he said.

23 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

So, What is Soma District Like?

So, What is Soma District Like?

With its greenery, thermal plant, coal-based economy and life, AKP’s utmost weight, seasonally employed women, two hospitals, a technical academy, and tea garden amidst the trees...

23 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

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Uğur Kurt, a Protest Bystander, Killed By Police Fire

Uğur Kurt, a Protest Bystander, Killed By Police Fire

Uğur Kurt (30), a municipal worker who was coincidentally visiting a cemevi for funeral in Istanbul’s Okmeydanı, died of police fire during a nearby protest dedicated to Berkin Elvan. While clashes resumed all night, 9 were injured including 7 policemen.

“Turkey Evades Responsibility By Not Signing Mining Convention”

“Turkey Evades Responsibility By Not Signing Mining Convention”

The chairman of Dev Maden-Sen Görgün claimed that the statement of the labor “The mining laws in Turkey are advanced than ILO agreement” don't reflect the truth, and Turkey evaded its responsibilities by not signing the agreement.

22 May 2014 Elif Akgül

PM's Aide Kicks Senior Miner, Journalist Reveals

PM's Aide Kicks Senior Miner, Journalist Reveals

New information revealed that the police raided the apartment of Erdal Kocabıyık, a senior minor who was kicked by PM Erdogan’s Aide Yusuf Yerkel in Soma district on May 14.

Turkey’s First Crime Scene Investigation on Animal Murder

Turkey’s First Crime Scene Investigation on Animal Murder

A team of judges, soldiers, advocates and NGO representatives held Turkey’s first crime scene investigation regarding the killing of a leopard in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

İŞKUR Removes Soma Mining Co Job Ad

İŞKUR Removes Soma Mining Co Job Ad

İŞKUR declared that Soma Mining Co’s advertisement of 100 worker job slots had been posted before the mine killing and has been removed today.

Pigeons as Relics of a Miner

Pigeons as Relics of a Miner

An uncle who retired from the mine, a dead nephew, a brother who survived from the mine diasaster and waiting women. In Soma district,if dying in a mine is mourning, surviving is a bittersweet happiness.

21 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

Workers Speak Up: Inspectors to the Mine First

Workers Speak Up: Inspectors to the Mine First

The remaining workers do not want to go into Soma Mining Co’s mines following the workplace murder in the Soma mine. Workers are determined not to go under ground before an inspection of the mine.

21 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

The Soma Massacre, the Spine Tower, and the Corporate-State’s Fitrat in Turkey

The Soma Massacre, the Spine Tower, and the Corporate-State’s Fitrat in Turkey

The Soma Massacre reveals the mutually constitutive link between the urban transformation of Istanbul under AKP municipal and national governance and the privatized coal mining industries in Western Anatolia.

21 May 2014 Emrah Yıldız

"Lack of Occupational Safety Hinders EU Process"

"Lack of Occupational Safety Hinders EU Process"

bianet interviewed Prof. Dr Aktar who emphasized the importance of the unions in order to ensure occupational safety and remarked that the obstacles in unionization also hinder the EU membership process.

20 May 2014 Elif Akgül

“I Went Straight into the Mine, What Training!”

“I Went Straight into the Mine, What Training!”

Mineworker Sezai Yıldırım was working in one of Soma Mining Inc.’s other mines; “Everybody should hear these slavery conditions,” he says, and is enraged at those who say workplace disasters are “God’s will”.

20 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

No Worker Death Case Resolved in the Past Six Years

No Worker Death Case Resolved in the Past Six Years

None of the cases of mass worker deaths in Turkey in the past six years has been resolved. Below are the legal processes of Zonguldak Karadon and Kozlu, Afşin Elbistan Thermal Plant, Ostim İvedik and various cases.

Soma Miners Will Venture Again Tomorrow

Soma Miners Will Venture Again Tomorrow

Exactly a week after the workplace murder, the miners working in Soma Mining Inc.’s other plants will go back to work tomorrow. The workers are enraged, but they “have no other option.” Many have bank debts, and there is no other livelihood in the region.

19 May 2014 Ayça Söylemez