content tagged with anti-militarism

A 12-year-old child injured her/his 5-year-old sibling while playing with a hunting rifle that s/he found at home. Paramedic teams arrived at the scene of the incident, finding out that the child lost her life there.

Human rights activists spearheaded by the Nor Zartonk Initiative gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square to protest the release of Kıvanç Ağaoğlu pending trial, prior to the deliverance of the final verdict. Ağaoğlu had shot Sevag Balıkçı, a Turkish citizen of Armenian origin, to death while they were performing their mandatory military service.

Seven human rights organizations start a campaign for the removal of article 318, “the alienation of people from military service”. Close to a thousand people sign the declaration.