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TTB to Iran Medical Council: 'Death Sentence should be abolished'

TTB to Iran Medical Council: 'Death Sentence should be abolished'

Medical Association of Türkiye has sent a letter to the chairperson of Iran Medical Council Raishzahed and called for execution of doctor Hamid Qarahasanlou to be stopped.

14 December 2022

Parliamentary Speaker announces support for reintroduction of death penalty

Parliamentary Speaker announces support for reintroduction of death penalty

Şentop has supported MHP Chair's Bahçeli's call for the death penalty "for a limited number of crimes."

4 September 2020

Open Letter by Academics for Panahi

Open Letter by Academics for Panahi

Academics and thinkers, among whom are also Balibar, Negri, Löwy and Chomsky, have published an open letter, demanding that the Kurdish activist Ramin Hossein Panahi, who has been sentenced to death, be released.

7 September 2018

Protests Against Execution of Panahi in Iran Banned in İstanbul, Ankara

Protests Against Execution of Panahi in Iran Banned in İstanbul, Ankara

The protests to be staged against the capital punishment of Kurdish activist Ramin Hossein Panahi in front of the Iranian embassies in İstanbul and Ankara have been prevented by the police. Panahi could be executed on September 6.

3 September 2018

Erdoğan: We Will Discuss Death Penalty with Opposition

Erdoğan: We Will Discuss Death Penalty with Opposition

President Erdoğan in his speech in front of his house in Kısıklı has responded to the slogans “We demand death penalty” as “We can’t ignore this demand of yours”.

PM Urges to Reconsider Death Penalty

PM Urges to Reconsider Death Penalty

Calling hunger strikes as “show”, “blackmail” and citing examples from the world, PM Erdogan declared on Sunday: “We should reconsider the death penalty in Turkey.”

12 November 2012

“The AKP Could Never Internalize Democracy”

PROF. MEHMET ALTAN

“The AKP Could Never Internalize Democracy”

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has increasingly come to view an authoritarian approach to politics as a solution to its own failures, renowned journalist and writer Prof. Mehmet Altan told bianet.

31 August 2012 Ekin Karaca