Erdoğan’s security package will make Turkey a police state, opposition leader says A controversial domestic security package draft code, which is set to come to parliament this week, would turn Turkey in to a “police state,” according Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli. Turkish government pushing for bill on security amid heated row The government has … Read more
ECHR Convicts Turkey Under 3 Different Charges Bianet :: English In 3 different cases, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of torture, ill-treatment and long term imprisonment, ordering the Turkish state to pay a sum of 30,900 euros as damages. Euro court fines Turkey 58,000 euros in five separate cases The European Court of Human … Read more
Füsun Erdoğan is Now Free Füsun Erdoğan, a bianet writer and former coordinator of Özgür Radyo who has been convicted to life sentence within MLKP case, has been released from prison. Three journalists, including Füsun Erdoğan, released over duration of detention Three journalists, including Füsun Erdoğan, the former general coordinator of Özgür Radyo, were released in the … Read more
* Student Cihan Kırmızıgül Released ? Bianet – 2 days ago University student Cihan Kırmızıgül was released pending trial at the eighth hearing of his case on Friday (23 March). The Galatasaray University student is Penalty for Defending Murder with “Tradition” from Bianet :: English The Diyarbakır Bar Association decided for … Read more
Turkish and Armenian people gather in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 24, 2011, to mark the anniversary of the massacre of Armenians during World War I, in 1915. People gather together to mark the massacre and to help the process of reconciliation between the nations, in a rare public display of opinion on perhaps the darkest … Read more