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WEEKLY ROUNDUP #7
Why has the AKP-MHP bloc decided to lower the election threshold?
The ruling alliance seeks to maximize its seats in the parliament • Anti-vaxxers hold mass rally in İstanbul • Another Kurdish child killed by armored vehicles • Turkey confirms the first cases of the Mu variant
12 September 2021
Volga Kuşçuoğlu
CHP CHAIR KILIÇDAROĞLU
‘2 million children deprived of education in Turkey’
Main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed President Erdoğan over his announcement that 15,000 new teachers will be appointed to work in public schools: “There is a need for 107,000 teachers and 43,627 classrooms.”
10 September 2021
Emine Şenyaşar put on trial for ‘insult’ over her remarks on justice watch
Keeping a justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse with her son, Emine Şenyaşar is now facing a court case on the grounds that she allegedly insulted ruling AKP MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız in her speech on the 86th day of their justice watch.
10 September 2021
ŞENYAŞAR FAMILY ON JUSTICE WATCH
'Prosecutor relocated after saying, "Heads will roll"'
Keeping a justice watch for 185 days for his spouse and two sons killed and one son arrested, Emine Şenyaşar says, “Our life has fallen apart. I take sleeping pills to sleep. My heart aches. May justice be done and my son be released.”
9 September 2021
Ruken Tuncel
FOX TV reporter not allowed in AKP spokesperson's press conference
The reporter said he was going to ask the spokesperson about the recent confessions by a former AKP minister about a 2013 corruption investigation.
3 September 2021
Turkey to reduce election threshold from 10 to 7 percent
After President Erdoğan, his ally Bahçeli also stated that the election threshold will be lowered.
1 September 2021
76 suspects caught over the attacks on refugees’ houses, shops in Ankara
The Ankara Directorate of Security has announced that “76 people who provoked citizens, posted untrue messages and were involved in the incidents have been caught.” AKP Spokesperson Çelik has also said that “the culprits will be penalized.”
12 August 2021
JUSTICE WATCH FOR 156 DAYS
Şenyaşar Family: Put an end to this atrocity
With his father and two brothers killed in an attack by the relatives and security guards of a ruling AKP MP in Urfa, Ferit Şenyaşar and his mother Emine Şenyaşar have been seeking justice by staging a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse.
11 August 2021
AKP member threatens journalist Murat Ağırel with death
"When the time comes, we'll take down all of you," AKP member Emrah Çelik said in a message he sent to the journalist. Çelik's photos with severed heads in Syria had surfaced in 2019.
11 August 2021
IRVIN CEMİL SCHICK WRITES
Fires will be Erdoğan’s ‘Gölcük Earthquake’
In addition to losses of life and property, the earthquake in 1999 had a political consequence as well: It showed the incapability of the government and state, serving as a harbinger of the regime change 3 years later. I think fires will have a similar effect.
6 August 2021
İrvin Cemil Schick
Şenyaşar family seeks justice for 150 days
Having lost her spouse and two sons in an attack by the security guards and relatives of ruling AKP’s İbrahim Halil Yıldız, Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have been on a justice watch in front of the Urfa Courthouse for the last 150 days.
5 August 2021
Erdoğan speaks about fires: Cattle, sheep, white meat… We will pay for them all
Erdoğan talks about the forest fires raging across Turkey: “Cattle, sheep or white meat… We will make the payments for them all.” Like the Minister of Forestry, he says that metropolitan municipalities are responsible for the fires in residential areas.
5 August 2021
The responsibility and irresponsibility of the state in forest fires
The state is in place. But where are forests, the creatures living there, the deceased people, the living spaces of people, their houses, gardens, schools? We don’t have forests, we don’t have animals, people or nature. There is trauma and sorrow.
3 August 2021
Hikmet Adal
AKP’s omnibus bill passed into law
The ruling AKP’s omnibus bill prolonging the duration of State of Emergency practices and the minimum wage support to employers has been passed by the General Assembly of the Parliament into law.
19 July 2021
Opposition lashes out at AKP’s omnibus bill prolonging State of Emergency
The ruling AKP’s omnibus bill foreseeing the extension of the State of Emergency practices for 3 years is discussed at the Parliamentary Commission. The opposition parties CHP, HDP and İYİ Party have slammed the bill.
13 July 2021
Sedat Peker claims interior minister armed civilians after 2016 coup attempt
Minister Soylu is backed by a shady organization that wants to make him the president, says the mob boss.
9 July 2021
Erdoğan tells his party to start preparing for elections
"We have about two years before the elections. I want you to seize every day and every moment of this time in the most efficient way," the president said amid calls for a snap election.
8 July 2021
HDP CO-CHAIR BULDAN
‘AKP is the biggest disaster that has ever happened to women in Turkey’
HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan has talked about Turkey’s withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention by a Presidential decision: “As soon as we send away this government, we will put the İstanbul Convention back in force.”
6 July 2021
Opinion poll: Support for AKP lower among first-time voters
President Erdoğan's job approval stands at 47 percent while his party's voting share is 30 percenty without undecided voters being distributed.
6 July 2021
AKP submits long-awaited animal rights bill
The sale of cats and dogs by pet shops, land and water circuses and dolphin parks will be banned with the new law.
2 July 2021
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Erdoğan sues main opposition leader, demands half a million lira
Filing a lawsuit against CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his speech at the CHP group meeting this week, President and AKP Chair Erdoğan demands 500 thousand lira in damages “because his personal rights were violated.”
1 July 2021
Erdoğan rules out snap elections
"June 2023 is Turkey's election calendar. This is our decision as the People's Alliance," the president has said as opposition parties have been calling for a snap election.
30 June 2021
Erdoğan says Canal İstanbul financing to continue regardless of his future
The main opposition party says it "won't pay a dime" for the canal project once it assumes power as Turkey breaks the ground for the canal.
28 June 2021
HDP CO-CHAIR SANCAR
‘Indictment of HDP closure case drafted by MHP, finalized by Palace’
HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar has made a statement after the Constitutional Court accepted the indictment seeking the party’s closure: “While the process is so obvious, everyone must see that the prosecutor of this case is the government itself.”
21 June 2021
AKP’s district office in Diyarbakır turns out to be attacked by party executive’s nephew
The ruling AKP’s district office in Hani, Diyarbakır was attacked with a molotov cocktail. Şemdin Barin, one of the detained, has turned out to be the nephew of Ali Barin, an executive of the AKP district organization.
21 June 2021
Turkey’s Islamist, ultra-nationalist coalition government and panic over LGBTQ symbols
Rainbow might be carried to the center of politics with the AKP/MHP coalition's hope to fracture the opposition, yet the colors that keep appearing, despite their attempts, can be considered a sign of people's persistence and will to repossess their narratives.
19 June 2021
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AKP politicians’ statements on HDP attack
Making a statement about the armed attack on the HDP İzmir office claiming the life of Deniz Poyraz, ruling AKP MP Dağ has “condemned” the attack” while Spokesperson Çelik has said that “the judiciary will bring the incident to light in all its dimensions.”
17 June 2021
SEDAT PEKER VIDEOS
Erdoğan says Turkey can't waste time for 'crime gangs' slanders'
"It's not possible for us to accept the efforts to put the AK Party in dirty scenarios. We are the party that fights both terrorist organizations and criminal organizations," the president has said.
9 June 2021
CHP’S SARIBAL
‘AKP imported 118 billion dollars worth of agricultural products in 18 years’
Main opposition CHP MP Orhan Sarıbal notes that while Turkey has the largest agricultural production area in Europe, it ranks first in food inflation in the continent, raising concerns that “Turkey does not have food safety.”
8 June 2021
New revelations by Sedat Peker as he postpones video about Erdoğan due to Biden meeting
In the two new videos he released on the weekend, exiled mob boss Sedat Peker targeted a businessperson with family ties to the president, the interior minister and others.
7 June 2021
Volga Kuşçuoğlu
SURVEY
Over 50 percent of society ‘believe’ Sedat Peker and want an election
According to the Operational Social Research Center, 68.9 percent of Turkey’s society think that “the politics-mafia relations are ongoing, as it was the case in the past.” 50.1 percent of the participants say that “Turkey is misgoverned.”
27 May 2021
PRAISE FOR ATTEMPTED ATTACK ON OPPOSITION LEADER
After weeks of silence, Erdoğan defends interior minister against crime boss's claims
The president openly talked about Sedat Peker's claims for the first time while praising those who attempted to attack İYİ Party leader Akşener in his hometown, saying that "These are the better days. Many more things will happen."
26 May 2021
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