content tagged with Orhan Miroğlu

What Do People Think About the Elections in Mardin?

BEYZA KURAL IN MARDIN

What Do People Think About the Elections in Mardin?

Before the general election will be held on June 7, we were in Mardin province on our Southeastern Anatolia tour with a group of journalists.

20 May 2015 Beyza Kural

Intellectuals Condemn Death Threat against Kurdish Politician

Intellectuals Condemn Death Threat against Kurdish Politician

Renowned Turkish and Kurdish writers, journalists, academics and artists initiated a signature campaign to protest the death threat voiced by an armed wing of the PKK against Kurdish politician Orhan Miroğlu.

6 December 2010 Berivan Tapan

Second Death Threat against Kurdish Politician Miroğlu in 3 Months

Second Death Threat against Kurdish Politician Miroğlu in 3 Months

A death threat against the Kurdish politician Miroğlu was posted on the website of the HPG, an armed wing of the outlawed PKK. The article signed by Toprak Cengiz read, "If he continues like this, we will put a red line into use! Miroğlu will be dead then!"

30 November 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Legal Procedures against Taraf Journalists Kütahyalı and Miroğlu

Legal Procedures against Taraf Journalists Kütahyalı and Miroğlu

Two Taraf newspaper writers are in the eye of the judiciary once again. The Ministry of Justice issued permission for an investigation about journalist Kütahyalı. Kurdish politician and journalist Miroğlu is tried for expressing his thoughts on the Kurdish question.

23 November 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Torturers Will be Called to Account

DIYARBAKIR PRISON

Torturers Will be Called to Account

The Facts Research and Justice Commission decided to take the torturers of the Diyarbakır prison from the time around the 1980 military coup to court. Kurdish politician Miroğlu who was detained in the prison for several years, is both a victim and a witness.

28 September 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalist Miroğlu Received Death Threat

Journalist Miroğlu Received Death Threat

An unknown person voiced a death threat via the phone against Taraf newspaper writer and politician Orhan Miroğlu. In his column the writer commented that he had no intention to take a step back because of the threat.

8 September 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

ECHR Will Tackle Ban On Propaganda in Kurdish

Kurdish politician Miroglu was condemned for addressing his electorate in Kurdish, during his campaign for July 2007 general elections. The Strasbourg court declares his case as admissible. The ruling might force an amendment to law.

11 February 2009 Erol Önderoğlu

Newspaper Investigated for Anti-Militarist Support

After one of their writers was taken into custody for an article he wrote, two representatives of the Taraf newspaper have been investigated for supporting the anti-militarist statement of singer Bülent Ersoy.

20 March 2008 Erol Önderoğlu