Turkey Today – 08.12.2024
While the attacks by Turkey-backed SNA continue in Minbic, Turkish drones bomb residential areas in the Christian-dominated Til Temir.
Eren Keskin, member of the Justice Against Isolation Initiative, stated that the isolation is connected to the solution of the Kurdish issue and that a possible solution in Turkey would positively affect other countries as well.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that the new administration must be inclusive as “Syria has reached a stage where Syrian people will shape the future of their own country.” Fidan also said Turkey, hosting millions of Syrian migrants, had started work on their return.
Turkey Today – 07.12.2024
Prisoners in Suluca High Security Closed Prison stated that they are subjected to oral searches, social activities are prevented and Kurdish conversations between them are not allowed.
Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square in week 1028 and demanded the fate of Hüseyin Taşkaya, who was disappeared 31 years ago by soldiers.
A court has ordered the release of former Turkish Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) President Nasuh Mahruki after two weeks in detention. Mahruki faces up to three years in prison for allegedly spreading false information in social media posts.
Turkey Today – 06.12.2024
“We hope that this march in Syria will continue without any accidents,” President Erdoğan said on the developments in Syria.
The second hearing in the case filed against lawyer Nazan Betül Vangölü Kozağaçlı, executive director of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD), on charges of “membership in an illegal organization,” was held in Istanbul. Trial postponed to February.
Interior Minister and current AKP MP Süleyman Soylu said he would quit politics after his term ends and he would only give consultation.
Turkey Today – 05.12.2024
Turkey and affiliated paramilitary groups intensified their attacks on Minbic. In the attacks where houses were looted and set on fire, 1 woman was killed and 2 women were wounded.
Lawyers from Asrin Law Office applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and the prison directorate for a meeting with their client PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court overturned the decision on the restitution of divested rights of Wan Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Abdullah Zeydan, on the grounds that it was “irregular”.
According to the Interior Minister, 147 suspected members of the “PKK/KCK-PYD/YPG” organization were arrested in ten days during a nationwide operation by the police.
Turkey Today – 04.12.2024
MHP chair Devlet Bahçeli has called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hold unconditional talks with Turkish President Erdoğan in the light of his army’s recent setbacks in the battlefield.
The DEM Party organized a protest in Urfa’s Suruç district against recent offensives in Syria by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the jihadist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group.
Turkish police again confiscated books at a book fair organized in Diyarbakır.
İzmir province’s Bornova District Directorate of Education has assigned Islamic religious officials to 99 schools in the district, according to a notice sent to schools.
Turkey Today – 03.12.2024
Dersim Co-Mayor Birsen Orhan was released after the court accepted the objection of her lawyers.
An international delegation from various countries has applied to the Justice Ministry for talks with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that recent developments in Syria highlighted the importance of the Syrian government reconciling with both “its people and the opposition.”
Attacks on North & East Syria were protested in many cities in Turkey. 50 people were detained.
Police officers confiscated Nelson Mandela’s book “Long walk to Freedom” and a book compiling Mehmet Hayri Durmuş’s letters at the 8th Book Fair in Diyarbakır.
Turkey Today – 02.12.2024
A military operation was launched from two branches with the participation of soldiers and village guards in the countryside of Hakkari’s Gever district.
Turkey and affiliated paramilitary groups attacked the villages of Minbij in Syria.
Afrin and Şehba People’s Assembly announced that they decided to evacuate civilians in the region against a possible massacre by (Turkey-backed) paramilitary groups.
9 people were arrested for protesting against President Erdoğan over trade with Israel.
The release of 66-year-old ill prisoner Besra Erol, held in Elazığ Women’s Closed Prison, was prevented for 1 year.
Turkey Today – 01.12.2024
Turkish warplanes bombed a border town in Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Turkey and its paramilitary jihadists groups shelled villages in Efrin-Shahba in northern Syria.
Warplanes attributed to Turkey circle over the small Christian town of Til Temir in Syria. At the same time, artillery attacks on residential areas are taking place and villages on the northern outskirts of the town are now without electricity.
Marmara University launched an investigation against 25 students who participated in a demonstration against the massacres of women.
Following the government’s recent crackdown against opposition-run municipalities, mayors from the CHP issued a joint statement, saying they stood united against “all kinds of attacks on our municipalities aimed at preventing a change in government.”
Yesterday, Saturday Mothers gathered for a symbolic 1027th time at Istanbul’s Galatasaray Square and sought the fate of Ahmet Yetişen, who was forcibly disappeared under detention 30 years ago.