Police clash with protesters in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011,as they try to stop a march on Parliament by workers protesting government-proposed legislation that they say will strip them of their rights. About ten thousands of workers, many of whom had traveled from across Turkey, had gathered in the capital Ankara and vowed to … Read more
Four heavy digging vehicles are being used for the excavations in the Mutki district in the province of Bitlis. DHA photo Dozens of bone fragments found during Mutki excavation Many human bone and skull fragments were discovered during excavations in a large trash dump in the Mutki district of Bitlis. Many fragments of bones and … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan inspects a guard of honour during a welcome ceremony in Kiev January 25, 2011.? Read more » REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Turkish PM says stress causes harsh rhetoric from Hurriyet Dailynews Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that recent comments he made regarding Turkish alcohol consumption arose out of a … Read more
Turkey doesn’t lack fallen journalists. Murderers of Uğur Mumcu still not found…and more pieces below for Hrant Dink and other human rights related issues… Family members, journalists and members of Turkey’s pro-secular groups hold carnations and posters of Turkey’s founder Kemal Ataturk, on the memorial of Ugur Mumcu, Turkey’s best known investigative journalist who was … Read more
A Turkey based gaming site Sanalika banned now. Grou.ps is also banned. Toplumsal Bellek [Social Memory] is a website dedicated to murdered journalists. here is the link for English version. Gerçekler ortaya çıksın, kim incinecekse incinsin!
4th year Commemoration photos here. State officials’ involvement in murder allegations abound. Dink Family Demand New Investigation Bianet They submitted a petition to the prosecution and requested to investigate 28 officers from the Police and Gendarmerie in Trabzon and Istanbul. No One Is Hrant Dink: 96 Years of Solitude and 4 Years of the Same … Read more
Release of Jailed Defendants Reveals Flaws In Legal System from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White Nicole Pope writes about the recent decision to release jailed defendants whose appeals are still pending for over ten years, including some members of the Turkish terror organization Hizbullah that was responsible for hundreds of of gruesome murders. Pope discusses … Read more
FOR JUSTICE, WE TAKE SIDE, BESIDE PINAR SELEK from KARAKOK OTONOMU TR/CH by Karakök This is an urgent call from Amargi Women?s Solidarity Cooperative to all intellectuals, writers, artists, feminist associations, lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and politicians Feminist, sociologist, anti-militarist peace activist, writer and founding member of Amargi Women?s Solidarity Cooperative Pınar Selek is … Read more
via I woke up to learn that popular music service Fizy.com is banned due to copyright issues. MÜYAP, a copyright violation hunter, is behind it. News in Turkish here. a discussion in Friendfeed here. http://twitter.com/tinca/statuses/19736397254492160 http://twitter.com/SenolEfendi/statuses/19731607174774784 Saturday Mothers to raise issue of missing persons again Today’s Zaman The Saturday Mothers decided to accelerate their efforts … Read more
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Chief of Staff’s statement against Kurdish usage has been translated to Kurdish (!) ROJ : 17 Befranbar 2010 SEET : 15:05 NO : BA – 03 / 10 1. Komara Tirkiyê ku ji neteweya tirk re diyariya Ataturkê Rêberê Mezin e; hêza xwe ji serweriya gel digre û bingeha … Read more
It looks like AKP power consolidates as center right and old patterns of malpractices emerge. Erdoğan?s trial by criticism from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Turkish Pre by Mehmet Barlas Just as novelist Halide Edip Adıver wrote a book titled ?Türk?ün Ateşle İmtihanı? (Turkish trial by fire) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip … Read more
Sociologist guilty in 1998 Spice Bazaar blast, top Turkish court rules from Hurriyet Dailynews The Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that the 1998 explosion in Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar was caused by a bomb placed there by sociologist Pınar Selek. NTV interview with Ms Selek in Turkish here. Öğrencilere verilen ceza için ben de başbakanı … Read more
Turkey?s judiciary: how much sense does the European Commission make? from istanbul notes There were few surprises in the European Commission?s 2010 progress report for Turkey, which was published on November 9th. On the issue that has most divided Turkey over the past year?the effect of September?s constitutional reforms on the judiciary?the Commission?s report formalises … Read more
via Letter “Q” Constitutes Element of Crime from Bianet :: English Sociologist Beşikçi and Layer Şimşek are accused of “spreading propaganda for the PKK”. In the second hearing of the case, the prosecutor saw an element of crime in the use of the letter “q”, which is not part of the Turkish but of the … Read more