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EFD Rights Watch: ODTÜ rector revolts against Ankara municipality, says night-time construction raid ?illegal?

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ODTÜ rector revolts against Ankara municipality, says night-time construction raid ?illegal? ‘ODTÜ does not approve the midnight raid nor consider it a good-willed approach. What?s been done is entirely illegal,’ Ahmet Acar said Protesters plant trees where Ankara municipality cut them down on ODTÜ land Demonstrators gathered near ODTÜ to protest the night-time construction raid … Read more

Turkey today: The parliament opens with boycotts

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Parliament of firsts to open with boycott by ANKARA Hürriyet Daily News For the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic, Parliament?s General Assembly is beginning a new legislative term with boycotts and missing members. The Kurdish problem is no joke by HDN The newborn political crisis, which was triggered by the decision … Read more

Clashes in Şişli, İstanbul this evening…

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Clashes come to the very center of İstanbul. Pro-Kurdish deputies pepper-sprayed in Istanbul from Hurriyet Dailynews by ISTANBUL- From online dispatches Deputies protesting the stripping of independent candidate Hatip Dicle?s deputyship by the Supreme Election Board, of YGS, were sprayed with tear gas by police in Istanbul on Sunday.     Supporters of Turkey’s Kurdish … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Çözüm başlamadan bitiyor

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Nasıl birkaç saat içinde yaygın bir iyimserlikten kapkara bir havaya giriverdik. Bunca yıldır alınan ve alınmayan hukukî kararlar sonucunda YSK?nın Hatip Dicle?nin vekilliğini düşürmesi memleketi ciddî bir krizin eşiğine getirdi bıraktı. Savaş lügatinden kaos, darbe, bomba benzetmeleri boşuna değil. Dicle?ye, her derde deva ?örgüt propagandası? suçuyla Anayasa?nın 76. maddesi uyarınca 1 yıldan fazla hüküm giymiş … Read more

Turkey today: YSK intervenes again

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Higher Election Committee (YSK), whose members are mostly made up from the remaining Kemalist establishment, had its play recently: “No, we are as bad as AKP. We cannot be behind in rights violations” (!), they seem to state… Pro-Kurdish demonstrators shout anti-government slogans during a protest against Turkey’s election board, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June … Read more

NOW: Reports of police violence against pro-Hatip Dicle protesters in Taksim

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Higher Election Council (YSK) cancelled the MP status of pro-Kurdish BDP candidate Hatip Dicle yesterday. Since then BDP fans are protesting. As of 19, there started a march in Taksim and there are reports of police brutality and despite that protests continue. I will collect twitter reports here: https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83582986561396736 https://twitter.com/#!/theserendipity/status/83581837481488384 https://twitter.com/#!/organiktus/status/83581975109173249 https://twitter.com/#!/ASLIERDAL/status/83574722046078976 https://twitter.com/#!/nianerten/status/83576256066621441 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83575429277040640 https://twitter.com/#!/_chiquitita_/status/83573782245154816 … Read more