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CHP Youth head in Denizli detained for insulting Erdoğan in closed-door meeting

CHP Youth head in Denizli detained for insulting Erdoğan in closed-door meeting

The opposition party says the evidence against Odabaşıoğlu was illegally obtained.

29 September 2021

'Prisoner investigated for saying "friends" in Kurdish during phone call'

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

'Prisoner investigated for saying "friends" in Kurdish during phone call'

A HDP deputy has brought a report on rights violations in prisons to the parliamentary agenda.

28 September 2021

Public ad bans on three daily newspapers

Public ad bans on three daily newspapers

The BİK has implemented previous fines against two newspapers while imposing another a new fine on another one.

28 September 2021

Six Palestinians disappeared in Turkey in a month, says Palestine's Foreign Ministry

Six Palestinians disappeared in Turkey in a month, says Palestine's Foreign Ministry

Palestine's diplomatic missions are in contact with Turkey's authorities to find out what happened to the missing people, the ministry has said.

28 September 2021

CHP leader promises to repatriate refugees, mend relations with Damascus

CHP leader promises to repatriate refugees, mend relations with Damascus

Turkey should send refugees back to Syria and deploy a peacekeeping force if necessary, Kılıçdaroğlu has said.

28 September 2021

HDP wants solution to Kurdish question for supporting opposition against Erdoğan

WEEKLY ROUNDUP #9

HDP wants solution to Kurdish question for supporting opposition against Erdoğan

Kurdish question is becoming a key issue in the next election • Student housing protests spread across the country • Erdoğan voices discontent over relations with Biden administration • Two refugees went missing after being pushed into river

27 September 2021 Volga Kuşçuoğlu

Gap between minimum wage, starvation line further increases in September

Gap between minimum wage, starvation line further increases in September

The "starvation line" for a family of four rose to 3,049 lira in September, according to the Türk-İş report.

27 September 2021

Writer Nurcan Kaya given deferred prison sentence for 2014 tweet

Writer Nurcan Kaya given deferred prison sentence for 2014 tweet

Kaya has been convicted of "propagandizing for an illegal organization" because of a tweet about the battle against ISIS in a Kurdish town in Syria.

27 September 2021

Erdoğan criticizes US as Taliban opens Kabul airport

Erdoğan criticizes US as Taliban opens Kabul airport

Turkey's plan to run the airport following the US pullout hasn't succeeded and "all the weapons, ammunition and vehicles at the airport have now been transferred to the Taliban, the president has said.

27 September 2021

Child worker dies after being hit by pickup truck in Siirt

Child worker dies after being hit by pickup truck in Siirt

The driver of the truck has been detained after hitting the child walking with his cattle.

27 September 2021

Education Ministry allocates 1.2 billion lira for overseas education agency

Education Ministry allocates 1.2 billion lira for overseas education agency

Students' housing problem would have been solved with the budget transferred to the Maarif Foundation, an opposition MP has said.

27 September 2021

Erdoğan calls student housing protesters 'liars'

Erdoğan calls student housing protesters 'liars'

Faced with exorbitant rent prices, university students have been spending nights at parks demanding adequate and affordable housing.

27 September 2021

Kurdish question debate: HDP rebukes Erdoğan, praises opposition leader

Kurdish question debate: HDP rebukes Erdoğan, praises opposition leader

Statements by the main opposition party's leader have triggered a new debate on the Kurdish question.

24 September 2021

Alevi foundations to open worship places for students who can't find housing

Alevi foundations to open worship places for students who can't find housing

University students have been facing a "housing crisis" with exorbitant rent prices and infussificent dorm capacities.

24 September 2021

Child died because of pesticide residues in fruit on parliamentary agenda

Child died because of pesticide residues in fruit on parliamentary agenda

Turkey still uses chlorpyrifos, a banned pesticide known to be dangerous for children, a HDP deputy has said, citing the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.

24 September 2021

Turkish lira slides as Central Bank cuts policy rate

Turkish lira slides as Central Bank cuts policy rate

The Central Bank has reduced the policy rate to 18 percent. The US dollar's exchange rate against the lira rose to 8.80 during the day.

23 September 2021

Constitutional Court orders state to pay 500,000 lira for 'impunity for torture and killing'

Constitutional Court orders state to pay 500,000 lira for 'impunity for torture and killing'

One person was tortured to death in detention in 1992. A soldier was found guilty, but the case was dropped due to the statute of limitations.

23 September 2021

Journalist Süleyman Gençel detained at home

Journalist Süleyman Gençel detained at home

While the reason for Gençel's detention is not clear, he has been referred to the prosecutor's office of cyber crimes.

23 September 2021

Court dismisses Albayrak's suit against law professor over 'Paradise Papers' articles

Court dismisses Albayrak's suit against law professor over 'Paradise Papers' articles

Serhat Albayrak, the brother of President Erdoğan's son-in-law, had sued Prof. Akdeniz for sharing a court order banning a news article about his offshore accounts in Malta.

23 September 2021 Hikmet Adal

Constitutional Court partly nullifies paragraph in state of emergency law

Constitutional Court partly nullifies paragraph in state of emergency law

The National Security Council does not have the authority to determine whether a group is acting against national security, the top court has ruled.

23 September 2021

Sued by former PM's son, Peker says he will release new documents on cocaine trafficking

Sued by former PM's son, Peker says he will release new documents on cocaine trafficking

Prosecutors and the police do nothing about cocaine smugglers who "have photos with ministers," the exiled mob boss has claimed.

23 September 2021

Air pollution in İstanbul, Ankara well above updated WHO limit values

Air pollution in İstanbul, Ankara well above updated WHO limit values

Turkey does not sufficiently measure air quality and has no national limit value for PM2.5, says Greenpeace.

23 September 2021

'Coal has no future in Turkey'

'Coal has no future in Turkey'

Turkey must make a roadmap for quitting coal after announcing that it will ratify Paris Agreement, says Europe Beyond Coal.

22 September 2021

Two workers walking from İstanbul to Ankara detained

Two workers walking from İstanbul to Ankara detained

Demanding their reinstatement, three dismissed municipal workers started walking to Ankara. Two of them were detained while the other says he will keep walking.

22 September 2021 Ayça Söylemez

Opposition parties submitted 3,076 bills in four years; none of them passed by parliament

Opposition parties submitted 3,076 bills in four years; none of them passed by parliament

More than 6,200 parliamentary questions were not answered and only 50 of the motions for parliamentary inquiries were accepted in the last legislative session, according to a new report.

22 September 2021

Mediterranean countries sign climate change declaration after summer wildfires

Mediterranean countries sign climate change declaration after summer wildfires

"This summer's catastrophic fires did not leave any Mediterranean country unscathed, while northern countries were hit by deadly floods," Greece's PM Mitsotakis has said.

22 September 2021

EU Delegation head praises Turkey for Syrian children's education

EU Delegation head praises Turkey for Syrian children's education

More than 700,000 out of the 1.2 million school-age Syrian refugee children in Turkey are integrated into the country's education system, according to officials from Turkey and the EU.

22 September 2021

Minister: Turkey fully vaccinates over 68 percent of adult population

Minister: Turkey fully vaccinates over 68 percent of adult population

More than a half of the country's population is now fully vaccinated, according to Minister Koca.

22 September 2021

Sakarya fireworks blast: Amount of stored explosives was above legal limits, experts find

Sakarya fireworks blast: Amount of stored explosives was above legal limits, experts find

Seven workers were killed and 127 were injured by the explosion in a fireworks factory last year in Sakarya, northwestern Turkey. An expert report has found the owners of the factory to be the "primary negligent party."

22 September 2021 Hikmet Adal

Two TV channels fined, 10 journalists stood trial in two weeks

MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE

Two TV channels fined, 10 journalists stood trial in two weeks

In two weeks, two news articles and one news portal were banned, three TV outlets were fined and the trials of 10 journalists continued.

21 September 2021 Volga Kuşçuoğlu

İHD: Two Syrian refugees pushed into border river between Turkey, Greece still missing

İHD: Two Syrian refugees pushed into border river between Turkey, Greece still missing

After being pushed back by Greece, 45 refugees were allegedly thrown into the Evros river by Turkey's security forces. Two of them are missing.

21 September 2021

Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net

Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net

Turkey is the country with the fastest decline in internet freedom, according to Gürkan Özturan, the rapporteur for Turkey.

21 September 2021 Hikmet Adal