Turkey

TURKEY | 06-01-2014 | The İzmir branches of the Human Rights Association (IHD) Contemporary Jurists Association (ÇHD) and TAYD-DER have issued a joint press release to highlight the torture suffered by four children transferred to Şakran prison after being tortured in Sincan prison. According to the children, they were beaten with truncheons and pipes when their sick friends failed to ...

HALUK GERGER| 05-01-2014 | Prof. Dr. Haluk Gerger says the Rojava Kurds face being under siege before the Geneva II conference, adding: “The Kurds will participate with their own identity and are behaving sensibly. However, there is intrigue against them. In the event that the Kurds sit down at the conference with an autonomous administration they will have strategically gained ...

ANKARA | 04-01-2014 |Twelve child inmates in Ankara’s Sincan prison were battered by prison officers this week. After the assault the children were subject to, eight among them were transferred to other jails on Friday; four to the Şakran prison in the western province of İzmir and four others to the Maltepe prison in Istanbul. The transfers have reportedly been ...

AMED| 03-01-2014 |Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court has unanimously ruled the release of BDP’s (Peace and Democracy Paty) two jailed deputies Gülser Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan. The court ruling for the release of two deputies came after the Constitutional Court accepted the application made by detained Yıldırım and Ayhan, who are in custody in the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) trial, ...

ISTANBUL | 03-01-2014 | Media Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation on “Başlangıç”, a documentary on Gezi Resistance produced by 49/51 Film and directed by Serkan Koç, for “insulting public workers” and “igniting public towards vengeance and hostility”. “In my statement today, I refused all charges on the case. The person who ignites public to vengeance and hostility is PM Recep ...

ISTANBUL | 02-01-2014 | The Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office has sent to Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals which approved the 8 year 9 month sentence for HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel. It is reported that the judgment will be read out in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) ...

AMED | 30-12-2013 | A monument has been opened in the Kayapınar district of Amed province on Monday in memory of 34 Kurdish civilians killed by Turkish warplanes on 28 December 2011. The Roboski monument in the Rojava Park has been built by the municipality. The monument which was sculpted by sculptor Suat Yakut is in the form of a ...

MARAŞ | 19-12-2013 | According to official numbers, 111 people, mostly Alevis, were massacred savagely in the Maras Massacre from 19 to 25 December 1978. The witnesses of the massacre can not forget the agony of massacre despite 35 years passing over it. Thousands of Alevis were wounded during the incidents, over 111 people were massacred, more than 552 houses ...

ISTANBUL | 18-12-2013 |  Turkish prosecutors unveiled a sweeping anti-corruption campaign this week that reaches deep into the country’s conservative government. More that 50 people have been detained so far, many of them tied to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister. The investigations have drawn in business tycoons close to Erdogan, the sons of three of his ministers and ...

ANC |14-12-2013 | Fadime Ayvalıtaş mother of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş who was killed during the Gezi Resistance during a protest march at the May 1st Street has lost her life due to a heart attack on 13th December. The mother of Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, who was martyred during the Gezi Resistance, has died due to a heart attack. She was hurriedly rushed ...