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Killing 12-year-old Uğur Kaymaz - "Use of Proportional Force"?

Killing 12-year-old Uğur Kaymaz - "Use of Proportional Force"?

The Turkish government submitted their defence regarding the killing of 12-year-old Uğur Kantar and his father to the European Court of Human Rights. It was claimed that "proportional force" was used and that the policemen "had no other option".

Court and Defendants Obstinate on Language Dispute

KCK TRIAL

Court and Defendants Obstinate on Language Dispute

The Diyarbakır court trying the KCK trial once more insisted on hearing the defendants' defence speeches in Turkish and again dismissed the request for a defence in Kurdish. The defendants are equally determined. Hundreds of people protested the case before the Thursday hearing.

12 November 2010 Erhan Üstündağ

KCK Trial still Jammed on Defence in Kurdish

KCK Trial still Jammed on Defence in Kurdish

The defence lawyers of the defendants of the KCK trial in Diyarbakır applied to the superior court for the right to a defence in the mother tongue. More than three weeks of the beginning of the trial, procedures have not yet advanced beyond the reading of the indictment.

9 November 2010 Erhan Üstündağ

Kanal D Facing Heavy Monetary Fine from RTÜK

Kanal D Facing Heavy Monetary Fine from RTÜK

Kanal D has to present a convincing defence to RTÜK in order to avoid a heavy monetary fine. The television channel might be punished by the council for broadcasting the reactions of the families of soldiers who were killed in the Gediktepe raid.

27 October 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

President Gül Met Hosrof Dink, Brother of Killed Hrant Dink

HRANT DINK CASE AT ECHR

President Gül Met Hosrof Dink, Brother of Killed Hrant Dink

President Gül received Hosrof Dink, brother of killed Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in Istanbul on Friday (20 August). Related to the state's recent defence to the ECHR, judge Türmen called the state to apologize and admit a mistake.

23 August 2010 Tolga Korkut

Turkey Criticized for Tainting The Memory of Slain Journalist

HRANT DINK CASE

Turkey Criticized for Tainting The Memory of Slain Journalist

"Friends of Hrant", a group of people struggling for the solving of the Hrant Dink murder case, demanded to investigate the people responsible for the government's defence made to the ECHR. The government had compared Dink to a neo-Nazi.

18 August 2010 Tolga Korkut