Turkey Weekly 30 Dec – 04 January 2025
Turkey Today – 04.01.2025
Foreign Minister Fidan has stated that his country is the “protector” of all aggrieved groups in Syria, “Nusayris, Alawites, Yazidis, Christians, whoever they are.” He noted that Turkey would “stand by whoever is persecuted.”
Access to the X accounts of Mezopotamya Agency, JINNEWS and Yeni Yaşam newspaper has been blocked in Turkey.
Emine Şenyaşar, who participated in the vigil at the Kobanê border says, “I struggled for 7 years and could not stop sayin ‘justice’. I will continue to say ‘justice’ for Kobanê”
Xenophobic Turkish mayor faces investigation for admitting ‘unlawful’ anti-refugee regulations.
Social media influencer Murat Övüç has been detained on charges of “insulting religious values” due to a post in which he wore a headscarf.
Turkey Today – 03.01.2025
Yesterday, Turkish warplanes conducted five intensive airstrikes on the Tishreen Dam and its surrounding villages in Northern Syria.
The appeal against the acquittal verdict for the police officers involved in the murder of Diyarbakır Bar Association President Tahir Elçi was rejected.
Saturday Mothers/People gathered at Galatasaray Square for the 1032nd time today to demand the fate of Ayhan and Ali Efeoğlu, who were disappeared under custody in Istanbul 1992 and 1994.
Turkey Today – 02.01.2025
In Tabqa, an administrative building of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has been bombed by a Turkish drone.
Rohat Güvercin, a member of the DEM Party’s Youth Council, has been arrested on terror charges.
Electricity was cut at a container city in Turkey’s Hatay province housing quake-affected teachers and families due to unpaid bills, reportedly by the state-run disaster agency AFAD.
Van Bar Association stated that the arrest of only one of the suspects in the death of Seyithan Durdu, who lost his life due to the fire opened from a military vehicle, raises suspicion that the investigation was not carried out effectively.
Turkey Today – 01.01.2025
Five days after the visit to Abdullah Öcalan on Imrali, the delegation of the DEM party met with the speaker of parliament Numan Kurtulmuş (AKP) and the MHP chair Devlet Bahçeli.
In a village in Zakho in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, two parked cars were shot at by a Turkish drone. There were no casualties.
Thousands of people marched to the border in Mardin’s Nusaybin district as part of the 21-day long vigil against the attacks of Turkey and the Syrian National Army (SNA) against North and East Syria.
Mazlum Aksaç, a prisoner in Erzurum Dumlu Prison No 2, was subjected to ill-treatment because he refused to be examined in handcuffs.
Turkey Today – 30.12.2024
“We are more hopeful compared to the previous processed. We will make a comprehensive statement in the new year” said DEM Party delegation, who went to İmralı on 28 December.
In the east of Ain Issa in northern Syria, the site of an Asayîş checkpoint was attacked by a suspected Turkish drone. No one was injured, but there was material damage.
The access denied on Mezopotamya Agency’s domain name was issued upon the request of Bitlis Provincial Gendarmerie Command.
Mezopotamya Women Journalists Association (MKG) and Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) sent books and New Year cards to 7 journalists who were arrested for participating in a press statement for journalists Cihan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan who were killed by Turkish UCAV in North and East Syria.