Ahmet Şık removed from courtroom in Cumhuriyet hearing, journalists to remain under arrest
Laborer Health and Occupational Safety Assembly has declared that at least 2,006 workers lost their lives in 2017.
Opposition MPs demand an inquiry after a religious body implies girls as young as nine could marry.
Based upon her own experiences, academic Zeynep Kıvılcım compares the academia in Germany and Turkey. She points out that there is a firm stand against the system in Turkey, while the universities in both countries are under pressure of the same system.
Ankara 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace has blocked access to Mezopotamya Ajans, Demokrat Haber, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and 1HaberVar news sites.
A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will Stop Femicide” women’s rights activist platform.
Application of Kocaeli Solidarity Academy formed by 19 peace academics, who were discharged from Kocaeli University, to become Kocaeli Solidarity and Research Association has been approved.
Cabadan and Durman, who were granted material compensation by the ECtHR due to “extended period of detention”, have been arrested for “being a member of an illegal organization”. Their compensation has been seized.
Former President Abdullah Gül responded to criticism from within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) against his views on a controversial recent state of emergency decree law, saying it is his duty to comment on important matters.
A recently issued state of emergency decree has given the Turkish security forces authority to open letters deemed “suspicious,” a significant change to the law on “seizure of mails.”
A judge ordered journalist Ahmet Şık to be removed from the courtroom on Dec. 25, preventing him from making a “political statement” in his defense during the fifth hearing of the trial Cumhuriyet journalists held at Istanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse.
While the academics are facing charges and being tried for having signed the peace declaration in Turkey, academic Muzaffer Kaya tells about the solidarity in Germany that reaches from Berlin to Turkey.
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