Turkish journalist held over alleged ox insult against Erdoğan World news: Turkey Sedef Kabaş faces trial over use of proverb on TV and in tweet comparing palace to a barn A Turkish journalist has been jailed pending a trial for allegedly insulting the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, after she cited a proverb on television and social … Read more
Turkey defies European deadline to release Osman Kavala from jail AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Council of Europe reportedly called for the jailed businessman and philanthropist to be released by February 2. Gezi trial | ‘This indictment is not a legal text, but a political statement’ Bianet :: English In the Gezi retrial, Osman Kavala, who has … Read more
Court acquits 12 people who attacked fashion designer Barbaros Şansal at airport Bianet :: English In the trial over the attempted lynch against fashion designer Barbaros Şansal at İstanbul Atatürk Airport in 2017, 12 of the 13 defendants have been acquitted. One defendant has been given a deferred fine of 2,500 lira. COVID-19: Pandemic in Turkey’s … Read more
Sevan Nişanyan is a Turkish-Armenian writer and linguist. He escaped from a prison in Turkey to a Greek island (this escape case is also interesting but I am lazy to tell about it). For some unclear reasons, he is in trouble in Greece, supposedly threatening “national security” there and he might be deported to Turkey. He … Read more
Penal labor in Turkey: Prisoners build prisons Bianet :: English A record number of 68 new prisons have been opened in Turkey this year, according to the Ministry of Justice. Case of killed HDP worker Deniz Poyraz: ‘Treat the murderer like a murderer’ Bianet :: English An armed assailant stormed the HDP’s provincial office in İzmir and … Read more
Website for help against sexual violence now online in Kurdish, English, Arabic Bianet :: English csdestek.org aims to inform those who survived sexual violence, including foreign citizens, about how they can access their rights. csdestek.org 82.7 percent of children use the Internet in Turkey, shows TurkStat survey Bianet :: English In the activities carried out on the … Read more
3 YouTubers doing street interviews placed under house arrest Bianet :: English Detained on December 12, the owners of three YouTube channels posting street interviews Arif Kocabıyık, Hasan Köksoy and Turan Kural have been released to house arrest. An international travel ban has been imposed on the three Three YouTubers detained in dawn raid over "cyber … Read more
SHE TOLD OF TORTURE, RAPE: Garibe Gezer suspiciously loses her life in prison Bianet :: English Having announced that she was tortured and sexually assaulted in Kandıra Prison in Kocaeli, Garibe Gezer has suspiciously lost her life in the same prison. Lawyer Eren Keskin asks, “How could a person in a cell hang herself?” Garibe Gezer, … Read more
Ankara Bar Chair Sağkan elected the head of Union of Turkish Bar Associations Bianet :: English Ankara Bar Association Chair Erinç Sağkan has been elected the new Chair of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), defeating Metin Feyzioğlu by receiving the votes of 181 delegates out of 348. Feyzioğlu has received 156 votes. Killing’ … Read more
Turkish court extends imprisonment of philanthropist Osman Kavala Decision paves way for Council of Europe to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey A Turkish court on Friday extended the imprisonment of the philanthropist Osman Kavala, whose case caused a diplomatic crisis with the US and other western countries after they called for his release. NOVEMBER 25 | … Read more
Press release Turkey: Algorithmic persecution based on massive privacy violations used to justify human rights abuses, says new report More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess the alleged “terrorist” credentials or connections of military officers and their relatives … Read more
Bolu is one of the cities with the fewest number of immigrants in Turkey. However, this bad man keeps fanning anti-refugee fires in the most egregious ways. He goes unpunished despite his unconstitutional policies. CHP won the election after a long time in Bolu but I wish CHP would expel him from the party. I … Read more
Why TikTok is a hit with Turkey’s working class Inside Turkey by Emel Altay Last year, 36-year-old construction worker Müjdat Uğur posted a Tik Tok video of him and his co-workers staging a catwalk show on a building site in the central Anatolian province of Yozgat. The post went viral with seven million views. Uğur, who … Read more
SoE Commission refuses to reinstate Academics for Peace despite Constitutional Court ruling Bianet :: English The State of Emergency Commission has turned down applications by 37 more academics. In other news: Israeli couple detained for photographing President Erdoğan’s palace – report | Ahval An Israeli couple visiting Turkey was arrested and charged with spying this week after … Read more
Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk investigated again over his book ‘Nights of Plague’ Bianet :: English A petition submitted to the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has argued that Pamuk, in his novel “Nights of Plague”, insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic, thereby provoking the public to hatred and hostility. ‘The state … Read more