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Police prevent bar heads from entering Ankara to end their Defense March, brawl erupts

Police have prevented heads of bar associations from entering the capital Ankara to end their Defense March, as footage showed brawls.

Marching lawyers prevented from entering Ankara

Bianet :: English
Bar association chairs are walking to the capital in protest of planned changes in the Attorneys’ Act.

HDP concludes ‘March for Democracy’ in Ankara

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“With this march, we wanted to say ‘Enough’ to the government, which chokes the society, tries to silence everyone who doesn’t think like it,” the party’s co-chairs said in a joint statement.

Pro-gov’t channel refuses to host pro-Kurdish party over ‘universal broadcasting principles’ | Ahval

Mehmet Akif Ersoy, an anchor on the Turkish television channel Habertürk, has said that his outlet…

Gov’t violating HDP’s constitutional rights through attempts to block its march, says DEVA party

Duvar English Turkey’s newly established Democracy and Progress Party’s (DEVA) has slammed the government for

MARCH FOR DEMOCRACY’: HDP Co-Chair says, ‘We won’t give up on our democratic rights,’ warns against ‘provocations’

Bianet :: English
On the second day of the HDP’s “March for Democracy against the Coup,” the party’s co-chair Mithat Sancar visited

Turkish Human Rights Association chair’s home ransacked, made to look like robbery

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Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) said on June 17 that their co-chair Eren Keskin’s home had been broken into and her belongings had been thrown around, but that nothing had been taken.

“A simple investigation of the scene shows that the incident wasn’t a simple robbery, but instead conducted to intimidate and threaten Eren Keskin,” İHD said in an official statement.

VENICE COMMISSION : ‘Decisions of Turkey’s Supreme Election Council inconsistent with international norms’

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Adopting an opinion as to the dismissal of elected mayors and appointment of trustees in southeastern Turkey, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has noted that the decisions of the Supreme Election Council should be reversed.

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