Turkey Weekly 2 – 8 September 2024
Turkey Today – 08.09.2024
Turkey has attacked a vehicle in Kobanê with a drone. According to ANHA news agency, one civilian was injured.
The dead body of 8-year-old Narin Güran, who has been missing for 19 days in Diyarbakır, was found thrown into a stream north of her village in a sack with stones in it.
In Batman T-type prison Batman, 15 prisoners have been punished with two weeks of solitary confinement. The prison administration accuses them of dancing to Kurdish songs and thus carrying out propaganda for a terrorist organization.
Since early this morning, a drone of unknown origin has been circling over the Mexmûr refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq without significant interruption. It is suspected to be a Turkish drone.
Turkey Today – 07.09.2024
A civilian has been killed in an artillery attack by Turkish-jihadist forces in northern Syria.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which accepted the application for the 6 children held by Turkey at the Habur Border Gate, asks a defense from Turkey. Lawyer Recepoğlu said: “This is the first application against Turkey that was accepted.”
Prisoner Şivekar Ataş, who has not been released despite her serious illnesses, has been placed in solitary confinement due to disciplinary punishment.
Turkey Today – 06.09.2024
The ECHR and Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe responded to the letter sent by Nobel laureates on the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) chief ibrahim Kalın visited Libya as backers of the Tripoli government search for a way out of a political impasse that has shut down Libya’s oil exports and jeopardized four years of relative stability.
CHP will hold a party congress on Sept. 6 to change its statute. In its draft form, the party made amendments to articles regulating primary elections, term limits, and member responsibilities.
Turkey Today – 05.09.2024
After three people were killed in a Turkish drone attack in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq just yesterday, there has been another deadly airstrike by Turkey. One of the three victims is a child.
BRICS chair Yuri Ushakov has confirmed that Turkey formally applied to join the organization. The bloc would discuss potential expansion at its Oct. summit.
The lawsuit filed against lawyer Burhan Arta, who was detained and arrested in April last year based on the testimonies of confessing witness Ümit Akbıyık, due to “being an illegal organization member”, was held in Diyarbakır. Trial adjourned until December.
Journalist Mehmet Güleş was acquitted in the first hearing of the lawsuit filed against him due to “spreading terrorist organization propaganda”.
Turkey Today – 04.09.2024
A Turkish drone has once again attacked a vehicle in the Slemani area, killing three civilians, a father with two of his sons.
Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç said yesterday that street interviews are not banned in the country and that “everyone can freely express their thoughts”. However, 12 young people were arrested for a banner they unfurled at the September 1 World Peace Rally in Istanbul.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the first such presidential visit in 12 years.
Prisoners in Giresun Espiye Type F Closed Prison have called for public awareness through their families against the increasing rights violations in recent days.
While the fate of 8-year-old Narin Güran in Amed has been unknown for 15 days, there has been no progress in the investigation.
Turkey Today – 03.09.2024
CPT member Kamaran Osman announced that Turkey bombed the territory of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 24 times last night.
Eda Önal, the lawyer of ill prisoner Abdulkadir Kuday, stated that her client was not given water and his food was thrown in front of him.
Tuba Sert, who is being held in Manavgat Prison, said that guards threatened prisoner Zilan Demir and subjected her to psychological violence.
Nationalist youth group Turkey Youth Union (TGB) “physically attacked” two U.S. soldiers in civilian clothes in western Turkey, the U.S. Embassy in Turkey and the local governor’s office said, adding that 15 assailants had been detained over the incident.
In Artvin province, one villager was killed and two people were wounded in an armed attack by the company workers against the villagers who wanted to stop the teams coming to cut trees for the recreation area project to be built in the forest area.
Turkey Today – 02.09.2024
Former AKP MP Külünk warned President Erdoğan that the latter’s popularity was declining following the local election defeat, and called on him to leave the presidency “at the peak.”
Security camera footage captured the violence of the police while conducting GBT on young people in Batman.
Prisoners Hüseyin Sürgeç and Ersan Nazlıer in Maltepe Type L Prison were transferred to another prison without informing their families.
The release of Ataş Göbe, a 30-year prisoner in Bolu Type F Prison, was prevented for the second time because he refused to accept the “remorse” imposition.
Ebubekir Şahin, the head of Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), announced that new regulations would be introduced for street interviews and YouTube, requiring those who produce news and programs on the platform to obtain a license.
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Turkey Today – 01.09.2024
Three Kurds from Duhok/KRI were attacked by a racist mob in Istanbul because they spoke Kurdish to each other. 45-year-old Hakim Lokman was stabbed in the heart and two of his cousins were injured.
In Mardin’s Nusaybin district, eight villages and the surrounding area have been declared a restricted military area. The Turkish air force has bombed the Bagok mountain range.
President Erdoğan’s advisor Ayhan Ogan threatened the opposition for those who act “outrageously” and said, “Social memory records their behaviors, the state takes note of them. Illegitimate uprisings will be crushed very hard.”
The release of 32-year prisoners Aydın Kudat and Abdurrahman Güner was prevented for the 4th time.
Human rights activists demanded the immediate release of seriously ill prisoners Abdulkadir Kuday and Ayhan Aykaç.