Turkey Weekly 27 – 31 October 2025
Turkey Today – 31.10.2025
Today, family members Fatma Öcalan, Ömer Öcalan, Berfin Öcalan and Ali Öcalan visited Abdullah Öcalan on the prison island of Imrali.
Diyarbakır Bar Association Secretary General Baver Mızrak stated that the most urgent task in the process is the integration law, and that the commission they established will carry out legal work under 11 specific headings.
Employees of Tele1 TV have resigned collectively in protest over the government’s appointment of a trustee to the channel, following the arrest of its editor-in-chief, Merdan Yanardağ.
Parliamentary Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş said that global and regional conditions now necessitate steps towards resolving the Kurdish issue and establishing lasting peace and brotherhood.
Five students at Ege University were detained while protesting the attack with clubs on students at Hacettepe University.
Politicians from Akdeniz Municipality, which had been placed under a trustee, emphasised in today’s hearing that the trustee system was a flawed mentality and stated that they would defend democracy.
Turkey Today – 30.10.2025
President Erdoğan met with members of the DEM Party’s Imrali delegation today.
President Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met at the Presidential Palace in Beştepe. Speaking at a joint press conference, Erdoğan said, ‘We need to focus on joint projects.’
Four municipal personnel were detained today as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations that the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality leaked the personal data and location information of millions of citizens through mobile applications it manages.
As part of the process, members of the political parties on the committee established in Parliament will travel to Ireland to examine the IRA experience. The committee stated that the visit is part of the MPs’ personal programme.
The administration of Konya Ereğli High Security Prison deemed the photograph of 12-year-old Ceylan Önkol, who was killed by a mortar shell fired from the police station, to be ‘inappropriate’ and refused to give it to her imprisoned cousin Ferhat Önkol.
DEM Party members Ayten Kordu and Nevroz Uysal Aslan submitted a petition to the Parliamentary Human Rights and Freedom Commission regarding prisoners on hunger strike in prisons, demanding that their demands be met within a humanitarian and legal framework.
Turkey Today – 29.10.2025
In Istanbul in 2024, 168 women who gathered for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November and were detained following police intervention were prosecuted.
The DEM Party will hold a “Local Democracy Conference” in Istanbul on 2 November. The conference will begin with a speech by Tuncer Bakırhan, and CHP Provincial Chairman Özgür Çelik will also be among the speakers.
Despite being deemed ‘at high risk of death’ in a medical report, Necdet Koç remains in prison and struggles to eat due to his illness. His body weight has dropped from 120 kilograms to 50 kilograms.
Access to MA news on X about students’ protests demanding clarification of the suspicious death of Rojin Kabaiş at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University has been blocked.
Turkey Today – 28.10.2025
CHP Diyarbakır MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu visited Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and Adana Metropolitan Mayor Zeydan Karalar, who are detained in Silivri. Tanrıkulu made a statement after the visit: ‘Silivri Prison has now turned into a concentration camp.’
Drawing attention to Serkan Onur Yılmaz’s 351-day hunger strike, the Contemporary Lawyers Association demanded the closure of dungeon-like prisons and the transfer of prisoners.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, ‘I want to take you back 25 years. We couldn’t produce a single pin in our country. But thank God, we now have a Turkey that produces weapons.’
The Roboskî Justice Initiative, pointing out that the perpetrators of the Roboskî Massacre have not been brought to justice, stated, ‘Justice for peace, truth and confrontation for justice, and courage for confrontation are required.’
Theater actress and academic Eda Saraç has been formally arrested on charges of “insulting the president” after arguing with security officers over traffic restrictions imposed for Erdoğan’s visit, which obstructed her on the way to a performance.
Hasan Tokgöz, District Police Chief in Mudurnu, Bolu, who had been in post for approximately two months, was arrested on charges of assaulting his wife.
Turkey Today – 27.10.2025
Commenting on the withdrawal of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, IHD Co-Chair Eren Keskin stated that legal regulations must be implemented as soon as possible, adding, ‘It is the state itself that must take the first step.’
Defence Minister Yaşar Güler announced that a total of 44 Eurofighter Typhoons will be purchased, 12 each from Qatar and Oman, and 20 from the United Kingdom.
Speaking about the decision of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, Parliamentary Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş stated that weapons and conflict would be left behind and a new era of democracy and free speech would begin.
The Co-Chairs of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, held a press conference in Ankara following the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s announcement withdrawal.
Police blocked women and LGBTI+s who gathered at Kadıköy Pier on İstanbul’s Asian side to protest what they describe as discriminatory provisions in the draft of the 11th Judicial Reform Package.
The second hearing of 49 people detained during protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has begun in Istanbul.
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Turkey Weekly 20 – 25 October 2025
Turkey Today – 25.10.2025
The Kurdistan Freedom Movement held a press conference today in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and announced the withdrawal of its armed forces from Turkey.
The meeting between the Imrali Delegation and President Erdoğan has been postponed until 30 October.
Following the withdrawal announcement, AKP Spokesperson Ömer Çelik stated ‘As the process continues, the positive framework to be outlined by the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission will become clearer.’
The Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Ekrem İmamoğlu, İmamoğlu’s former adviser Necati Özkan, and TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ were requested to be arrested on charges of ‘political espionage’.
Erdal Kuzu, the lawyer representing Ahmet Türk, who was acquitted in the case that led to the appointment of a trustee, pointed to the Administrative Court and said, ‘We are now awaiting their decision.’
Turkey Today – 24.10.2025
In line with Abdullah Öcalan’s call and the decisions taken at the 12th Congress, it was announced that the PKK will take a new historic step tomorrow.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Turkish soldiers opened fire on young people attempting to cross the border in the town of Xeranij in Serekaniye (Northern Syria), killing one young man and seriously injuring another.
Citizens in Esenyurt protested against trustees and oppression at a rally organised by DEM Party, EMEP, TİP, TÖP, EHP and SMF.
Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square in week 1074 and demanded to know the fate of Yusuf Nergiz, who disappeared in custody 28 years ago.
The process commission will hear from Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç at its 16th meeting on October 30.
Ekrem İmamoğlu will give a statement tomorrow at Çağlayan Courthouse as part of the ‘espionage’ investigation.
Four journalists were assaulted at the scene of a traffic accident in Aydın while covering the incident. Condemning the attack, the Aydın Journalists’ Association stated, ‘No violence against the press can be tolerated.’
Turkey Today – 24.10.2025
A new investigation on espionage allegations has been launched involving İstanbul’s suspended mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, his campaign director Necati Özkan, and journalist Merdan Yanardağ, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced.
The Dersim branch of the Human Rights Association (İHD) pointed out that the increasing number of military and police checkpoints in Dersim was leading to violations and demanded an immediate end to the climate of pressure created by arbitrary practices.
Ekrem İmamoğlu was acquitted in a case related to his tenure as mayor of Beylikdüzü.
While 2 people were rescued from the refugee boat sinking off the coast of Bodrum district of Mugla, 14 refugees lost their lives. The search for 2 refugees continues.
The trial of eight journalists who were detained for covering the Saraçhane protests, held in custody for one day, and then released, was heard today in Istanbul. The court immediately rejected the request for acquittal. Trial adjourned until 27 November.
The second hearing of the trial of 49 people detained during protests that began after Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest was held in Istanbul.
A court in Ankara has rejected a lawsuit demanding the annulment of the CHP congress held in 2023, allowing the current party leadership to remain in place.
Turkey Today – 23.10.2025
Can Atalay, who has been detained in Silivri for three years as part of the Gezi Park trial and whose parliamentary seat was revoked, recalled the Constitutional Court’s ruling on “rights violations” and appealed to Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş.
Ahmet Türk was acquitted in the case in which he was tried on charges of “organization propaganda” and which was used as grounds for appointing a trustee to the Mardin Metropolitan Municipality.
A court in İstanbul has ordered the release of journalist Ercüment Akdeniz, former editor-in-chief of the left-wing daily Evrensel, after eight months in pre-trial detention. Akdeniz was among those detained in police raids in February targeting the Peoples’ Democratic Congress.
The trial of BirGün Chair of the Board İbrahim Aydın, Publishing Coordinator Uğur Koç and Managing Editor Yaşar Gökdemir began in Istanbul. Uğur Koç and Yaşar Gökdemir were sentenced to a judicial fine of 34,400 TL each. İbrahim Aydın was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison.
The trial of Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Neslihan Şedal, who was prosecuted for her speech against the appointment of a trustee to the municipality, has been postponed.
A request for the release of Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer, who was arrested as part of operations targeting the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, was submitted through his lawyer Hüseyin Ersöz.
Turkey Today – 22.10.2025
As part of the operations conducted against the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, 210 more people were summoned for questioning.
A citizen who attempted to film on-going deforestation in Şırnak’s Gabar region was reportedly threatened by soldiers, who later confiscated the person’s phone and deleted the footage.
Human Rights Association (IHD) Ankara Branch co-chair Omer Faruk Yazmaci met with prioners in Kırşehir S-Type Closed Prison and he stated that relese of 8 prisoners prevented between July and October.
The Turkish Medical Association issued a statement regarding preparations for ‘legislative changes concerning sexual identity’ and stated that the provisions in the draft pose a threat to public health and fundamental human rights.
An İstanbul court has sentenced journalist Asuman Aranca to 10 months in prison for publishing details from an expert report related to the 2021 assassination of Sinan Ateş, former leader of the Turkish Grey Wolves group.
Turkey Today – 21.10.2025
The CHP has decided to vote against the motion to send troops to Iraq and Syria in Parliament.
Kamaran Osman, CPT’s Iraq representative, warned that Turkey is preparing for a new war in the Zap and Avaşîn regions of the Kurdistan Region, building new military bases.
MHP chair Devlet Bahçeli has renewed his call for Northern Cyprus to become part of Turkey.
The release of Sermin Demirdağ, who is being held at Sincan Women’s Closed Prison, has been blocked for the seventh time. The DEM Party has submitted an application to the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission (İHİK). Demirağ has been detained since 1993.
The release of prisoner Nurcan Aslan has been postponed for a further six months on the grounds that she has served disciplinary sentences.
Turkey Today – 20.10.2025
President Erdoğan has congratulated the pro-federation president-elect of Northern Cyprus, while his main ally Bahçeli has called on the Turkish cypriot parliament to reject the results and pursue unification with Turkey.
Footage emerged showing that Hüseyin Bayrak, a candidate for the board of directors in the accountant and financial advisor elections, was booed by a racist group with shouts of ‘Don’t speak. We have no respect for you’ when he greeted the audience in Kurdish.
The detention of the CHP mayors of Beşiktaş, Esenyurt, Avcılar, Seyhan, Ceyhan and Adana Metropolitan Municipalities has been extended.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya stated that the ongoing process is not merely a security project, adding, ‘It is a goal of civilisation. It means guaranteeing the right to life, peace and security.’
The third hearing of the retrial concerning journalist İdris Yılmaz, following the Supreme Court’s overturning of his conviction for ‘insult,’ was held in Erciş. Lawyer Hazal Sümeli requested that the missing issues be addressed. The hearing was postponed until January.
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Turkey Weekly 13 – 19 October 2025
Turkey Today – 19.10.2025
The release of ill prisoner Cemil Irvendi (62), held in Kırşehir prison for 31 years, was postponed for the third time for 6 months by the Administration and Observation Board.
Co-chairs of the DEM Party, Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, visited Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned co-chair of the HDP, at Edirne Prison.
At the 2nd Mesopotamia Water Forum held in Diyarbakır, proposals were developed regarding the obstruction of the right to access water, ecological damage and the protection of water resources.
Nilüfer’s former Mayor Turgay Erdem fell ill in prison and was transferred to intensive care.
Turkey Today – 18.10.2025
DEM Party Diyarbakır MP Berdan Öztürk was sentenced to 6 years and 4 months in prison today in a case heard at the Ağrı 1st High Criminal Court.
Fifteen people, including a member of the DEM Party Ağrı Municipal Council, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 7 years and 6 months to 44 years by the Ağrı 1st High Criminal Court. This was protested in Ağrı.
The case brought against Ekrem İmamoğlu on charges of insulting prosecutors was dismissed before trial began after his lawyers made a preliminary payment.
The Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that there are no obstacles to the CHP’s 39th Ordinary Istanbul Provincial Congress taking place tomorrow.
Sixteen bar associations announced that they would follow the case, stating that the investigation into the suspicious death of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University student Rojin Kabaiş had been conducted inadequately.
The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change has approved Cengiz Holding’s request to cut down 57,534 trees for mining exploration in Eskişehir.
Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square in week 1073 and demanded to know the fate of Fehmi Tosun, who disappeared in custody 30 years ago.
Turkey Today – 17.10.2025
The Asrin Law Office has published a statement on the visit to İmralı. Öcalan stated “The principle of hope is a step the state must take. This is an issue affecting thousands of people. No matter how you look at it, it must be lifted. It must be done from a legal perspective. Both politics and justice demand it.”
Security guards and police intervened against Hacettepe University students who wanted to march to the Rector’s Office to protest the canteen price increase. Over 20 students were detained.
Dr Huseyin Yavic, a member of the Van-Hakkari Medical Chamber who participated in the autopsy of Rojin Kabais, said that major shortcomings in the investigation have hindered the process from the very beginning.
As part of the process initiated to resolve the Kurdish issue, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş, who visited Diyarbakır, stated, ‘This time we will succeed. This time peace, brotherhood and well-being will prevail.’
Beykoz Deputy Mayor Özlem Vural Gürzel appointed Council Member Uğur Gökdemir, who resigned from the CHP along with her, as a board member of the municipal company.
Turkey Today – 16.10.2025
The request for the arrest of Specialist Sergeant Musa Orhan, who sexually assaulted İpek Er and drove her to suicide, has been rejected once again.
Announcing the 2026 budget, Deputy President Cevdet Yılmaz said the largest share would be allocated to education and defence spending.
KESK members affected by the KHK decree, who reached Ankara with their ‘Five Days, Seven Cities, One Voice’ march, were blocked by a police cordon while attempting to march to the Ministry of Justice.
Numan Kurtulmuş, Chairperson of the National Solidarity, Fraternity and Democracy Commission established in Parliament, will be in Diyarbakır tomorrow for meetings.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had decided to appoint a trustee to the renowned Paramount Hotel in Bodrum.
Turkey Today – 15.10.2025
The draft of the 11th Judicial Package, which is expected to be submitted to Parliament, has been sent to political parties. It does not include any provisions that would facilitate the resolution of the Kurdish issue.
The motion submitted by the DEM Party to the Parliament’s General Assembly to investigate the death of university student Rojin Kabaiş was rejected by votes from the AKP and MHP.
The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality announced that it would file a criminal complaint against former mayor Melih Gökçek for making misleading posts on social media.
The 57 youth organisations within the Youth Organisations Forum (GOFOR) presented their demands to the commission for the resolution of the Kurdish issue.
Turkey Today – 14.10.2025
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk was detained for political reasons, concluding that her 2016 pre-trial detention was intended to suppress political opposition and limit democratic pluralism.
An indictment has been prepared against Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Nuri Aslan, seeking a prison sentence of between six months and three years for the crime of “resisting the performance of duty” against a security officer assigned to Çağlayan Courthouse.
Parliamentary Vice-President Pervin Buldan responded to the İYİ Party Group, which insulted Abdullah Öcalan and targeted her, saying, ‘We will continue to speak of peace and brotherhood in this country. Know your place.’
22 people, including former Nilüfer Mayor Turgay Erdem and his wife, were detained in the operation organised within the scope of the investigation conducted by Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on the crimes of “Establishing and leading an organisation with the aim of committing a crime”. Turkey Today – 13.10.2025
Lawyers from Asrin Law Office went to İmralı prison island to meet Mr. Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners.
Former Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Bülent Arınç, drew attention to Abdullah Öcalan’s role in the process, stating, ‘If the Commission wishes to conduct the process in a healthy manner, it must hear Abdullah Öcalan directly at İmralı.’
This week the National Solidarity, Fraternity and Democracy Commission will listen to youth and women’s organisations.
Namık Tan, Deputy Chair of the CHP and Istanbul MP, visited former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş at Edirne Prison.
Twenty people, including journalist Fatoş Erdoğan, who tweeted during the siege of the CHP Istanbul Provincial Headquarters, have been prosecuted.
Lawyer Hakan Bozyurt made a statement regarding the attack on journalist Hakan Tosun and announced that 2 people were arrested.
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Turkey Weekly 6 – 12 October 2025
Turkey Today – 12.10.2025
Mesut Aslan, a member of the Education Union Şırnak Branch Executive Committee, has begun a hunger strike in protest against the overturning of the prison sentence handed down to Burak Ercan, the deputy headmaster who sexually abused 43 students in Cizre.
Nine of the 33 individuals detained as part of an investigation into allegations of bribery in connection with permit applications submitted to the Ministry of National Defence have been arrested.
Journalist and documentary director Hakan Tosun, who had not been heard from since the night of 10 October, was found beaten on the roadside. Tosun, who was stated to have had a brain haemorrhage, was taken under treatment in the intensive care unit.
CHP Chair Özgür Özel, MPs and mayors gathered with citizens living in Europe at the ‘Standing Up for the Will of the People’ rally held for the first time in Europe in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
Turkey Today – 11.10.2025
A delegation led by the Iraqi Foreign Minister visited Turkey. It was noted that the water issue was on the agenda of the meeting.
Roni Rubar İmen, a reporter for Welat Agency (AW) who was detained in Cizre, reported that he had been subjected to violence.
Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square in week 1072 and asked about the fate of Cemil Kırbayır, who went missing in Kars 45 years ago.
Zeynel Taş, co-mayor of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in Urfa’s Bozova district, who was detained in 2016 and subsequently imprisoned, has been released after nine years in captivity.
Kuşadası Mayor Ömer Günel claimed that Aydın Metropolitan Mayor Özlem Çerçioğlu provided him and his family with development profits in Sultanhisar before joining the AK Party.
Turkey Today – 10.10.2025
DEM Party İmralı Delegation member Pervin Buldan stated that during their last meeting on Imrali, Abdullah Öcalan said, ‘The commission must come to Imrali as soon as possible,’ adding that a five-person delegation was planning to visit Imrali.
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requested permission from the Ministry of the Interior to investigate Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş and Chief of Staff Nevzat Uzunoğlu as part of a ‘concert’ investigation.
The Van Bar Association and legal institutions demanded that Kurdish be granted official status, that obstacles to its use in public spaces be removed, and that it be recognised as a language of education.
The 104 people who lost their lives in the DAESH attack on the Labour, Peace and Democracy rally held in front of Ankara Train Station on 10 October 2015 were commemorated on the 10th anniversary of the massacre. Police attacked the march.
Turkey Today – 08.10.2025
DEM Party MPs reacted to the Justice Ministry’s appeal against the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling on Selahattin Demirtaş by protesting the decision in Parliament with placards and applause.
ÖHD, TUAY-DER and İHD stated that violations in Antalya prisons had reached a point where they threatened the right to life and called for an end to arbitrary violations.
Soldiers were heard at the 14th meeting of the Process Commission established in Parliament. Prior to the meeting, Numan Kurtulmuş met with the deputy group leaders.
The fourth hearing of the case against journalist Rüstem Batum, who was charged with ‘insulting the President’ based on two posts he made on X, was held in Istanbul. The court, which decided to uphold the arrest warrant for Batum, postponed the hearing until May.
The first hearing of the retrial of lawyer Özgür Urfa, whose 10-month prison sentence for ‘insulting the President’ was overturned by the Court of Cassation on the grounds of statements made in his appeal, began in Istanbul. The hearing was postponed until 31 October.
Turkey Today – 07.10.2025
Parliament TV, which broadcast the DEM Party Parliamentary Group Meeting live, muted the sound of Kurdish slogans chanted by women participating in the group during the broadcast.
MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli stated at his party’s group meeting that the commission should visit İmralı. He requested that a call similar to Öcalan’s 27 February call be made for the SDF in Syria.
The fourth hearing of the trial of journalist Nurcan Yalçın, who is charged with ‘membership of an organisation’ and ‘financing terrorism’, was held in Diyarbakır. Trial adjourned until January.
The fourth hearing of the trial of Nimet Tanrıkulu, one of the founders of the Human Rights Association (İHD), who is accused of ‘membership of an organisation’, was held in Istanbul. The court ruled that the judicial control measures against Tanrıkulu should continue.
The autopsy report from the Forensic Medicine Institute stated that MHP-affiliated lawyer Serdar Öktem sustained separate injuries to his head, face, and left arm, each of which was lethal.
Turkey Today – 06.10.2025
CHP Vice Chair Murat Bakan asked Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya after ISIS- linked family killes a driver: “How many people who are citizens of the Republic of Turkey have joined ISIS, sympathize with them, or have contact with them?”
It was announced that the number of signatures in the CHP’s signature campaign entitled Freedom for İmamoğlu and Early Elections had reached 24 million.
YÖK President Prof. Dr. Erol Özvar announced that the ‘Turkey-Syria Friendship University’ will be established in Damascus and that the agreement will be signed in the coming days. There are also plans to open a branch of the university in Aleppo.
Journalist Furkan Karabay, who has been detained for 145 days, has been placed in solitary confinement.
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Turkey Weekly 29 September – 5 October 2025
Turkey Today – 05.10.2025
The Human Rights Association (İHD) Şırnak Branch reacted to T-shirts sold online featuring the ‘White Toros’ and ‘Grey Wolf symbol’ alongside the slogan ‘How can seventeen thousand people fit into a white Toros?’ stating, ‘Respect for the memory of the disappeared is a prerequisite for social peace and justice.’
Speaking at the World Teachers’ Day event, Özkan Demirkol, President of the Eskişehir Branch of the Education Union, called for the reinstatement of education workers dismissed under the Decree Laws.
DEM Party MP Newroz Uysal Aslan brought to the Assembly’s agenda the case of Soncan Gedik, a prisoner who defended himself in Kurdish, whose disciplinary punishment was not lifted and whose sentence was not postponed, while the punishment of 52 out of 53 people who received disciplinary punishment for using the phrase ‘Mr Öcalan’ was lifted.
The TFF Arbitration Board accepted Amedspor’s appeal against the two fines imposed for its Kurdish advertising slogan and decided to review the application.
Turkey Today – 04.10.2025
In the meeting with the İmralı delegation Abdullah Öcalan stated that they stand behind the statement made on 27 February, which emphasised that the progress of the process is contingent upon political and legal requirements.
The IHD İzmir Branch drew attention to the serious health problems of Seyad Erişmiş, who is being held in Erzincan Prison, and demanded that treatment conditions be provided and his sentence be postponed.
Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square in week 1071 and inquired about the fate of Turgut Yenisoy, who was detained by JİTEM 31 years ago and has not been heard from since.
Former AKP MP Şamil Tayyar claimed that preparations were underway within the AKP for a referendum and early elections, stating, “I can see the preparations”.
Turkey Today – 03.10.2025
DEM Party İmralı delegation went to İmralı to meet with Abdullah Öcalan.
Ayşe Barım was re-arrested the day after her release.
President Erdoğan spoke on the phone with US President Donald Trump at the latter’s request. It was stated that the conversation covered bilateral relations between Turkey and the US and the situation in Gaza.
In a statement issued by the DEM Party Legal Commission regarding the prisoners in the Kobanê case, the AK Ministers’ Committee and ECHR rulings were recalled, stating that ‘in accordance with ECHR rulings, all politicians detained in connection with the case must be released immediately.’
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) imposed fines on five channels, including Halk TV and SZC TV.
The first hearing of the trial of Bekir Aslan, known on social media as Basel, who is being tried in custody on charges of ‘insulting the President’ based on an X post, was held in Istanbul. The court ruled to release Aslan. The hearing was postponed until January.
The Istanbul 45th Civil Court of First Instance, which ruled on the appointment of a trustee to the CHP Istanbul Provincial Directorate and heard the case seeking the cancellation of the congress, rejected the request for the judge to be recused.
Turkey Today – 02.10.2025
Chair of the “National Solidarity, Fraternity and Democracy Commission” Numan Kurtulmus said he hopes to present the commission’s recommendations to the Parliamentary General Assembly for study as soon as possible.
A verdict of non-prosecution was issued in the investigation into the death of Abdurrahim Yüksel, who allegedly committed suicide in a solitary cell in Urfa Closed prison.
The second hearing of the trial of detained journalist Furkan Karabay, who is being prosecuted for his posts regarding the investigation process of Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer, was held in Istanbul. The court imposed a fine of 42,500 TL for the offence of ‘insult’.
EMEP İzmir Provincial Manager Emre Gökmen was acquitted in the trial in which he was prosecuted for participating in the İmamoğlu protests.
The fourth hearing of the trial against nine people, seven of whom are journalists, who wanted to make a press statement in Şişhane for journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin killed in Syria, was held in Istanbul.
Turkey Today – 01.10.2025
Following the opening of Parliament, Erdoğan met with the Co-Chairs of the DEM Party, Devlet Bahçeli and Numan Kurtulmuş, at the Presidential Council of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Manager Ayşe Barım, who was tried on charges of ‘attempting to overthrow the government’ in connection with the Gezi Park protests, was released after appearing before the judge for the second time.
The tree slaughter started by village guards in Diyarbakır’s Kulp district continues for 20 days.
The women’s movement TJA launched its march from Diyarbakır to Ankara under the slogan ‘We are walking towards freedom with hope’.
According to reports Abdülmecit Uyar, who was detained during a police raid on a house in the Cizre district of Şırnak, was beaten in the street.
Turkey Today – 30.09.2025
The ‘confidentiality’ ruling issued in the investigation into the throwing of two villagers from a helicopter by soldiers during an operation in Van has not been lifted for five years.
The request to arrest the perpetrators in the case of Mikail Ekinci, who was killed by police officers in the Çermik district of Diyarbakir for allegedly failing to comply with a ‘stop’ order, has again been rejected.
The first hearing of the case against journalist Eli Akgül, who was arrested in February 2025 during an HDK operation and released in June, on charges of ‘membership of an organisation’ was held in Istanbul. The court ruled that judicial control measures should continue. The court decided to continue the judicial control measures. Trial adjourned until December.
Housing Development Administration (TOKİ), which started to plunder nature in İsmetpaşa neighbourhood of Şirnex (Şırnak) centre, is building one thousand 520 houses in the same regions.
Turkey Today – 29.09.2025
TED Diyarbakır College issued a written statement expressing regret following reactions to an event organised to mark Turkish Language Day on 26 September, in which children were made to carry placards praising the Turkish language and one child was made to read aloud Karamanoğlu Mehmet’s decree imposing the obligation to speak Turkish.
Following the instruction to “cooperate with law enforcement” sent to universities by the Istanbul Governor’s Office, the first step came from the appointed administration of Istanbul Technical University (ITU). A police vehicle was stationed at the Arı Gate of ITU’s Ayazağa Campus.
CHP Chair Özgür Özel stated during a TV programme ‘With the opening of Parliament, we believe that certain legal regulations must now be swiftly implemented.’
There is military activity in the countryside of Bagok Mountain in Mardin’s Nusaybin district.
The investigation against journalists Mehmet Şakir Karadaş, Hülya Taş and Rohat Bulut, who were detained in Van’s Erciş district on 7 January at a police checkpoint on allegations of ‘making organisation propaganda’ and released by the Magistrates’ Court, has been dropped.
DEM Party Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu announced on his X account that Ali Ülker, a 51-year-old teacher dismissed by a Decree Law (KHK), had committed suicide.
Following the resignation of Antalya’s CHP Aksu Mayor İsa Yıldırım from the CHP, six CHP council members also announced their resignation from the party