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Turkey Weekly 25-31 July 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 31.07.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An indictment has been prepared against a gang of 43 defendants, including Bahtiyar \u00c7olak, the former presiding judge of the Koban\u00ea Case. Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, which completed the investigation against the “Atadedeler” organization, which calls itself the “commercial intelligence branch of the deep state”, demanded that the defendants be punished for “establishing and managing an organisation for the purpose of committing crimes”. 
Simultaneous attacks were carried out against Ana Fatma Djemevi, \u015eah-\u0131 Mardan Djemevi, G\u00f6k\u00e7ebel Village Association and Turkmen Alevi Bektashi Foundation in Ankara. A woman who was injured as a result of the knife attack on the Turkmen Alevi Bektashi Foundation was taken to the hospital. 
Led by Senator Laurence Cohen, 102 members of the French parliament denounced Turkish President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s \u201cpolicy of war\u201d against Syrian Kurds, in a statement published on Le Journal du Dimanche on Saturday.
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 510. Emine \u015eenya\u015far lost her husband and two sons as a result of the attack carried out by AKP MP \u0130brahim Halil Y\u0131ld\u0131z’s bodyguards and relatives in the Suru\u00e7 district of Urfa, on June 14, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 30.07.2022<\/strong>
After the meeting with Foreign Minister \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu German FM Annalena Barbock has met representatives of CHP, HDP and \u0130yi Parti.\u00a0
Mersin Akdeniz Municipality members who have been detained yesterday were released.\u00a0
It was learned that the police who stormed the house of HDP party council member Livan Orman in \u0130stanbul yesterday attacked the family members. Orman himself was not at home.\u00a0
The detention period of the HDP members arrested yesterday in \u0130stanbul was extended by 4 days.\u00a0
Students and alumni of Ankara’s prestigious ODT\u00dc have protested the university management’s decision to cancel this year’s graduation ceremony at its usual location, the Devrim (Revolution) Stadium.\u00a0
Nursel Tanr\u0131verdi, a teacher dismissed by a statutory decree was fined for staging sit-in protests, demanding her reinstatement. The Constitutional Court has ruled that one person can\u2019t disrupt public order by sitting in a square.\u00a0
Turkish football team Fenerbah\u00e7e will not issue an apology over fans\u2019 chanting in support of Russian President Putin during the Champions League match against Ukraine’s Dynamo Kyiv, Chairman Ali Ko\u00e7 said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 29.07.2022<\/strong>
The bones found in the neighborhood of Hilvan in Urfa, where the Bucak Tribe lived, known as the “JITEM headquarters”, gave hope to\u00a040 families whose relatives were dissappeared in the 1990s.
Police raided houses in \u0130stanbul and detained seven members of HDP Youth Council. The investigation was launched by Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.\u00a0
A police raid was carried out in Antalya. Four young people were taken into custody in the scope of an investigation over \u201cspreading propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d.
Yesterday, before the extraordinary meeting in Mersin Akdeniz Municipality where the borrowing power will be discussed, the HDP’s council members were taken into custody by police. The police raid was carried out on “membership in a terrorist organization” charges.
Court blocks access to 130 news articles about Erdo\u011fan\u2019s former lawyer. The blocked articles were about bribery allegations against the lawyer.
Diyanet replied to CHP MP Tacettin Bay\u0131r’s question regarding Erdo\u011fan’s accusations that Gezi Park protestors burned down mosques in the following way: “There are no documents and reports regarding the incidents in question.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 28.07.2022<\/strong>
A military operation was launched in the Z\u00eavkan village in the countryside of Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district, where 6 members of the same family were detained yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A curfew was declared in a neighborhood and hamlets of Bagok as part of the helicopter-assisted military operation in the Bagok Mountain countryside of Mardin\u2019s Nusaybin district last night. 
AKP’s A\u011fr\u0131 Mayor Savc\u0131 Sayan marched on the city streets with people carrying long-barreled guns.
4 members of the Internal Security Forces lost their lives in Turkey’s attack on Ayn Isa in Northern Syria. 
The \u0130stanbul Metropolitan Municipality has dismissed a former academic who was among more than 2,000 Academics for Peace who were dismissed for having signed a declaration criticizing the government for human rights violations during the 2015-2016 curfews. 
Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University has announced the dean of the newly established Faculty of Law has resigned from his post due to “health problems.” Erdo\u011fan-appointed Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i rector Naci \u0130nci, a physicist, appoints himself as acting Law Faculty dean. 
The Advertisement Committee of the Ministry of Trade banned H&M’s LGBTI+ themed commercial for ‘disrupting morality’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 27.07.2022<\/strong>
Soldiers raided some houses and detained 6 members of the same family in the\u00a0village of Z\u00eavkan in Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district. The military blockade has been going on for 10 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ill prisoner 80-year-old Kaz\u0131m Kalbi\u015fen, whose sentence of 4 years and 2 months on terrorism charges was upheld by Patnos High Criminal Court, died two days ago. 
Stating that Type S and Y prisons are a more stringent execution regime than Type F prisons, Civil Society Association in the Penal Execution System Coordinator Berivan Korkut said: “Prisoners are being held in  aggravated isolation situation.”
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hussein said during a press conference that Turkey has not officially contacted them since the bombardment of Zakho on July 20, adding that Ankara only speaks to media about this issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rocket attack targeted T\u00fcrkiye’s Consulate General in Iraq’s Mosul in the early hours of the day, leaving no casualties. 
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu has said that the Interior Ministry ignores his applications for the messages of threats being sent to him. 
President Erdo\u011fan will hold a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on August 5.
Yesterday evening four people were injured in a Turkish shelling of villages in the countryside of Tel Rifaat in Northern Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 26.07.2022<\/strong>
As a result of the explosion of a military object in the Ba\u015fkale district of Van, 12-year-old H.E. was seriously injured.
A court in Ankara has fined columnist Cem K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck 6,620 liras for calling HDP deputies H\u00fcda Kaya and \u00d6mer Faruk Gergerlio\u011flu “terrorists.”
The United Nations Security Council has “strongly condemned” the bombardment of a\u00a0 tourist resort in the Zakho district of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
President Erdo\u011fan has said that last week’s attack on a mountain resort in the Zakho district of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was carried out by the PKK in an attempt to damage Turkey-Iraq ties.
President Erdo\u011fan warned Greece over the status of its eastern Aegean islands, saying Greek sovereignty depended on not militarising them.
CHP leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has called for the release of Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirta\u015f, saying that Demirta\u015f is a political prisoner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 25.07.2022<\/strong>
The 15th hearing of the Koban\u00ea Case launched against 108 people, 21 of whom are currently imprisoned, has started today. Pointing out that the state has assumed the role of a judge in the Koban\u00ea Case and stating that the case was left to the ruling party’s partner MHP, lawyer Hadi Cin said: “The MHP plans these cases at its own headquarters.”
25-year-old prisoner Mehmet Y\u0131lmaz, being held in Urfa Type E Closed Prison, died under suspicious circumstances.Y\u0131lmaz’s body was taken to the morgue of the Urfa Forensic Medicine Institute.\u00a0
7 members of HDP Youth Council were detained in Antalya.\u00a0
Three people from Rojava who fled to Turkey during the ISIS occupation have been imprisoned in Adana on terror charges.\u00a0
Turkey summoned Sweden’s\u00a0charge d’affaires in Ankara over \u201cterrorism propaganda\u201d Foreign Ministry called in the diplomat to convey its \u201cstrong reaction\u201d to a protest held in the Swedish capital Stockholm by a Kurdish group, considering it as support for terrorism.\u00a0
Halil Konak\u00e7\u0131, the imam of Melike Hatun Mosque located in Ankara, has targeted women walking on street by comparing them\u00a0to “meat in butcher shops.”\u00a0
Turkey is battling wildfires in eight provinces across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 18 – 24 July 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 24.07.2022<\/strong>
The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein reiterated that Turkey was responsible for the attack, saying that the country was not free to enter Iraqi soil as it pleased. 
A Syrian soldier is reported to have been killed in Turkish shelling in villages north of Hasake in northeast Syria, while four civilians including at least two children are reported to have been injured.  
A letter written by imprisoned former HDP MP Leyla G\u00fcven to 84-year-old political prisoner Mehmet Emin \u00d6zkan was confiscated because it could encourage him. \u00d6zkan who is seriously ill is behind bars since 1996. 
The hunger strike of political prisoners in Adana K\u00fcrk\u00e7\u00fcler prison which started in mid-July continues. 
The police intervened in the football tournament organised by the HDP Youth in \u0130stanbul and confiscated a banner condemning the attack on Zaho in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. 
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 503. Emine \u015eenya\u015far lost her husband and two sons as a result of the attack carried out by AKP MP \u0130brahim Halil Y\u0131ld\u0131z’s bodyguards and relatives in the Suru\u00e7 district of Urfa, on June 14, 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 23.07.2022<\/strong>
Under the blockade of hundreds of police officers, HDP\u2019s Istanbul office protested an attack that killed nine civilians in the Zakho district of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
The retrial of former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta\u015f for “revealing the identity of persons involved in counter-terrorism” started in Ankara yesterday. The prosecution is demanding up to eight years in prison. 
HDP Youth Council member Arjin T\u00fcncer was detained in front of HDP Van provincial building yesterday evening. At the same time, her house was raided by the police. 
It has been reported that Turkey and the paramilitary Syrian National Army (SMO) groups under its auspices have bombarded the villages of Um K\u00eaf and Dirdara, west of Til Temir, with howitzers and mortars since this morning.
Saturday Mothers came together in week 904 to ask those responsible for the death of Abdulgani Da\u011f who disappeared after being detained in Mardin\u2019s Nusaybin district on July 14, 1994. 
Fatima G\u00fclham Abushanab, an interpreter for President Erdo\u011fan has filed a criminal complaint against main opposition leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu over his remarks targeting the leader\u2019s private translator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 22.07.2022<\/strong>
CPT Iraq Representative Kamaran Osman stated that the bombardment took place from Turkey’s Xamtir military base, adding that Turkish soldiers pressured the people to evacuate Perex village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to meet with their relative. 
Political prisoner Kadri Ekici was found dead in his cell in Diyarbak\u0131r high security prison. Ekici had been in solitary confinement for a year. 
4 people from Qamishlo, who wanted to cross over from Serekaniy\u00ea to Turkey 4 days ago, were detained by Turkey backed SMO and they cannot be heard from. 
The rector\u2019s office of Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University has censored the screening of LGBTI-content films planned as part of an open-air movie festival at the university campus. 
Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said Turkey would assess Sweden and Finland\u2019s compliance with a deal allowing them to join NATO at a trilateral meeting next month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 21.07.2022<\/strong>
Turkey denies responsibility for yesterday’s bombardment that killed eight people in Zakho in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Baghdad government said it will bring the case to the UNSC and may use the “econoimc card” against Turkey.  
President Erdo\u011fan has said “The US has to leave the east of the Euphrates… Because it’s America who nurtures the terrorist organizations there,”. 
Yesterday police attacked ceremonies held across the country to commemorate the victims of a ISIS suicide bombing that took place in 2015 in Urfa’s Suru\u00e7 district. The Istanbul Governor\u2019s Office said that 106 were people detained in the city over their participation to the demonstration. 
The Association for Lawyers for Freedom (\u00d6HD) Women’s Commission and the Rosa Women’s Association launched a petition calling for the end of the process of lifting the immunity initiated against DBP Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar factory Kayseri \u015eeker has allegedly obliged its workers to attend an upcoming rally of President Erdo\u011fan in the city. 
The number of new Covid-19 infections between July 11 and 17 was twice as high as the previous week, showed figures released today by the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 20.07.2022<\/strong>
Constitutional Court has ruled that jailed former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirta\u015f’s rights were violated in one of the several cases launched against him. The ruling concerns judicial authorities’ move to open a lawsuit against the renowned Kurdish politician, citing his attendance to a demonstration in 2011. 
It was stated that a Kurdish family living in the Incilip\u0131nar Neighborhood of Pamukkale district was attacked by a person named Hasan Ak\u0131n who said, “What are the Kurds doing in this neighborhood? I will kill you”. Ak\u0131n came with a sickle-shaped knife in his hand. 
Mardin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against Jinnews reporter \u00d6znur De\u011fer on the allegation of “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”.
Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said that Turkey’s process to acquire F-16 fighter jets from the US continues despite a recent US House legislation. 
AKP will prepare a report with regards to the performance of CHP metropolitan mayors and share with the public how many of their pre-election pledges have been so far actualized. 
Erdo\u011fan has blamed the US for aiding and working with the People’s Defence Units (YPG) in northern Syria, insisting that the US should withdraw its troops from east of the Euphrates River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 19.07.2022<\/strong>
The 10th Chamber of the Council of State dismissed the case for the annulment of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan’s decision to withdraw Turkey from the \u0130stanbul Convention. 
The 4th hearing of the case against Onur Gencer, who carried out an armed attack on the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) \u0130zmir Provincial Building and murdered Deniz Poyraz there, continues. While Onur Gencer avoided all the questions adressed to him at the trial, he did not give any information about the soldier \u0130brahim Ak\u0131l, who seems to be linked to the murder.
Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said that Turkey will not concede to any conditions for the possible sale of F-16 fighter jets and expressed his wish that Washington does not “fall for a game” by a group of U.S. lawmakers with regards to the issue. 
Prisoners in K\u00fcrk\u00e7\u00fcler Type F Prison have been on hunger strike for the last 5 days demanding the violations of rights to come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily new Covid-19 cases in Turkey have increased as many as 40 times in the past four or five weeks, Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca said after a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 18.07.2022<\/strong>
Turkey will freeze Finland and Sweden\u2019s NATO membership bids if the Nordic countries do not keep promises on counter-terrorism made last month, President Erdogan said on Monday, adding he believed Sweden was \u201cnot showing a good image\u201d for now. 
A person tried to enter the courthouse with a pump rifle during the Deniz Poyraz murder hearing. Poyraz was killed by a gunman in the \u0130zmir HDP Provincial Organisation building in June 2021. 
Stating that he was battered and injected with an unknown medicine by force, Emrah Yakut, who is being held in Erzurum Dumlu Prison No. 1, said: “The guards will kill me.”
A prisoner who was recently released from prison in Ayd\u0131n said about the recently revealed suspicious death of inmate Y\u0131lmaz Ekinci that it was not possible for Y\u0131lmaz Ekinci who was 170 centimeters tall, hanged himself from an iron bar that was 148 centimeters high from the ground to kill himself. 
Three trans women have been battered by the neighborhood watchmen in Turkey’s western province of \u0130zmir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 11 – 17 July 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 17.07.2022<\/strong>
At least five people were killed in a Turkish drone attack in northwestern Iraq. A woman is apparently among the victims, according to Iraqi security sources.
The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources announced on Saturday that Turkey had pledged to improve water release in the face of the scarcity crisis that Iraq is suffering from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any new military operation Turkey would launch in north and east Syria would not be limited to Syrian Kurds, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi said. 
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgi\u00e7 has said that Turkey will not be “a refugee camp for any country”, denying a possible agreement with the UK on asylum partnership like Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 16.07.2022<\/strong>
The Constitutional Court has ruled that the lifting of the immunity and parliamentary mandate of former HDP Co-Chair Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f was unlawful.
The grave of Ali\u015f \u00c7ekwar \u00c7ubuk in Ba\u011flar cemetery who died during the curfews in Diyarbak\u0131r’s Sur district in 2016 was damaged. The The gravestone had been removed in 2017 on the orders of the police because of the Kurdish name \u00c7ekwar. 
Saturday Mothers came together in week to ask those responsible for the death of Hasan G\u00fcl\u00fcnay who disappeared after being detained in \u0130stanbul on July 20, 1992. 
Ali \u0130hsan \u00d6ktem, deputy chair of the Turkish Medical Association said the authorities should take urgent steps to tackle COVID-19 after the number of new infections doubled each week since the middle of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 15.07.2022<\/strong>
Jewish graves were vandalized in the Hask\u00f6y Cemetery in Beyo\u011flu. Thirty-six gravestones were damaged.
Greenpeace replied, “Unfortunately, the subject is outside of our area of expertise” to the appeal of the \u015e\u0131rnak Bar Association against the deforestation in the city.
President Erdo\u011fan has argued that the soaring inflation in Turkey is a \u201ccontinuation\u201d of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Erdo\u011fan also said that powers, which he did not name, were trying to make Turkey \u201csurrender through the economy.\u201d 
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that restricts the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. The legislation in question prohibits President Biden from selling or transferring fighter jets or kits to Turkey unless the country guarantees that the Greek airspace will not be violated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 14.07.2022<\/strong>
The Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) gave its 3rd report on imprisoned former HDP MP Aysel Tu\u011fluk diagnosed with dementia saying she could be held in prison. 
Visiting DFG Co-chair Serdar Altan, who is among the 16 imprisoned journalists, his wife G\u00fcls\u00fcn Altan said that they were subjected to a strip search in Diyarbak\u0131r No 2. High Security Prison.
The letters of imprisoned journalists Serdar Altan, Mehmet Ali Erta\u015f and Zeynel Abidin Bulut were confiscated because they “could have been organisational documents”.
Ministry of Defence has not made a statement about soldier Naci Kayg\u0131s\u0131z, who lost his life in an armed conflict in the Zap region and whose body is reported to be in the hands of the HPG. HPG had offered to hand over the body to representatives of civil society organisations. 
Covid-19: 117,095 new infections and 31 deaths registered in the last 24 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 13.07.2022<\/strong>
The government has been failing to respond to a question filed by the CHP about President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan’s latest accusation that Gezi Park protestors \u201cburned down mosques\u201d during the nationwide demonstrations in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Russia vetoed a one-year extension, the council members agreed to extend aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey for six months. The US, the UK and France abstained from the vote in protest of Russia’s rejection of the previous resolution. 
Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has suspended from duty imam Ahmet G\u00fcr after he targeted doctors and incited violence against them during a sermon. 
Wildfires broke out today in the Dat\u00e7a district of Mu\u011fla. Mu\u011fla was one of the two hardest-hit provinces in last year’s massive wildfires. 
Covid-19: Health Ministry reported 57,113 new infections and 25 deaths in the 24 last hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 12.07.2022<\/strong>
The spokesperson of Foreign Ministry has criticized the ECtHR ruling on Osman Kavala “However, the ECtHR has unfortunately failed to meet our expectations by the decision announced today and once again called into question the credibility of the European human rights system.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osman Kavala says ECtHR GRand Chamber decision will give strength to judges and prosecutors who \u201ccontinue to act in accordance with the rule of law despite political pressures\u201d. 
The Kremlin announced that Putin will meet with Erdo\u011fan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a visit to Tehran on July 19. 
Postponing or cancelling a military operation against \u201cterrorists\u201d in northern Syria is out of question, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. Akar denied that Turkey\u2019s Western allies had asked Turkey to refrain from launching a military incursion into Syria during a NATO summit in Madrid last month. 
A report compiled by CHP MP Tekin Bing\u00f6l showed that over 100,000 health workers used emergency code for violence in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 11.07.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcing its ruling on Osman Kavala, the Grand Chamber has found that Turkey violated the Article 46\/1 of the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to act in \u201cgood faith”, in a manner compatible with the “conclusions and spirit” of the Kavala judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewing the detention of 16 journalists who were arrested in Diyarbak\u0131r on June 16th, the Diyarbak\u0131r 5th Criminal Judgeship of Peace ruled to continue the detention of the journalists on the grounds that judicial control measures will not be sufficient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police search in the offices of two production companies as part of an investigation into Kurdish media outlets has been completed 32 days after 16 journalists were detained during raids. The police seized cameras, computers, hard drives, audio mixers and monitors in the offices of the Piya and Ari production companies. 
Devlet Bah\u00e7eli, the leader of the  MHP, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s far-right governing ally, displayed a map showing Greek islands as Turkish at a party event at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, University student Ali \u0130smail Korkmaz, who was beaten to death during the Gezi protests in Eski\u015fehir in 2013 was commemorated on the anniversary of his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish health minister urges dismissal of imam for inciting violence against doctors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 4 – 10 July 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 10.07.2022<\/strong>
Turkish attacks against the Autonomous Administration regions of Northern and Eastern Syria continue. Artillery attacks on densely populated villages are reported from Til Temir.
The 10 October Peace Association organised a commemoration in memory of the victims in the area in front of Ankara Train Station. On 10 October 2015, 104 people lost their lives and over 500 people were injured by an ISIS bomb attack that targeted a peace rally. 
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 489. Emine \u015eenya\u015far lost her husband and two sons as a result of the attack carried out by AKP MP \u0130brahim Halil Y\u0131ld\u0131z’s bodyguards and relatives in the Suru\u00e7 district of Urfa, on June 14, 2018. 
Turkey\u2019s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has launched an investigation on an imam in the central Anatolian Konya province for calling for violence against doctors upon a healthcare strike earlier in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 09.07.2022<\/strong>
Diyarbak\u0131r Type D Prison Disciplinary Board confiscated the letter that journalist Mehmet Ali Erta\u015f sent to his colleague, finding it “objectionable” on the grounds that he “continues his journalistic activities\u201d.
Seyhan Municipality Deputy Mayor Funda Buyruk, who was detained and released as part of the police operation against Binev\u015f Culture and Art Association, was dismissed by the Ministry of Interior.
Three separate violent explosions occurred at around 2.30 and 3 am in Hakkaris’s Y\u00fcksekova district near the 75th Y\u0131l Police Station in the K\u0131\u015fla District and the police station on \u015eahin Hill. 
On the occasion of the Feast of the Sacrifice, Saturday Mothers gathered at Galatasaray Square saying that they will continue their action until the graves of the disappeared are found. 
US Representative Frank Pallone on Saturday made public the bipartisan letter, signed by 35 lawmakers in Congress, sent to President Joe Biden expressing opposition to the proposed sale of F-16 fighter planes to Turkey.
Turkish army continues to send military reinforcements in preparation for a renewed invasion of Northern Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 08.07.2022<\/strong>
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no violation of rights in the death of several people killed during the curfews imposed in \u015e\u0131rnak’s Cizre district in 2015 and 2016.
In Diyarbakir, soldiers denied residents access to the cemeteries. On the occasion of the Feast of the Sacrifice, the deceased relatives are visited. 
It was stated that the clashes between soldiers and HPG members intensified in the rural areas of G\u00fcrp\u0131nar and \u00c7atak districts of Van. 
A military operation was also launched in \u015e\u0131rnak’s Cudi Mountain. In the villages at the foot of Mount Cudi, the gendarmerie restricted the villagers with bread and food, while the citizens were allowed to enter their homes with a “permission slip”. 
The Dicle Amed Women’s Platform organised a demonstration to protest the approval by the Parliamentary Preparatory Commission of the lifting of the immunity DBP co-chair Saliha Aydeniz.
Erdo\u011fan’s ally and MHP chair Devlet Bah\u00e7eli has targeted doctors for protesting the increasing attacks on healthcare workers, saying that their nationwide strike is “unlawful.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 07.07.2022<\/strong>
Istanbul police intervened against healthcare staff with shields and pepper spray during march protesting murder of cardiologist Ekrem Karakaya by a patient. Journalists were once again violently prevented from covering the protest. 
The media watchdog RT\u00dcK has imposed a broadcast ban on the issue of murdered physician, preventing media organs from covering it. 
Turkey has penned new letters to Sweden and Finland reminding these countries of previous extradition requests for people it considers “terrorists,” Justice Minister Bekir Bozda\u011f said.
Ukraine will summon Turkey’s ambassador in Kyiv. A ship left Turkey’s inland Sea of Marmara for the Black Sea today was “full of stolen Ukrainian grain,” the country’s deputy foreign minister has said. 
The 2nd hearing of the trial in which 4 politicians, including the Co-chair of HDP Van Fikret Do\u011fan faces \u201copenly inciting the public to hatred and hostility\u201d charge was held in Van. Giving more time for the defense to prepare their arguments against the prosecutor’s opinion, the court adjourned the trial until December.
As part of the investigation carried out against the Binev\u015f Culture and Art Association, 4 out of 37 people detained on June 27 were arrested on charges of “membership in a terrorist organisation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 06.07.2022<\/strong>
The parliament’s Drafting Commission has ruled to lift the immunity of Democratic Regions Party co-chair Saliha Aydeniz to pave the way for her to stand trial on accusations of \u201cpushing a police officer\u201d during a demonstration last month. 
The government has brought a new regulation into force requiring mayors to get an approval from the Foreign Ministry before holding any kind of meeting with representatives of foreign countries.
The 4th hearing of the trial in which the former HDP Deputy S\u0131rr\u0131 S\u00fcreyya \u00d6nder faces \u201cpublicly degrading the judicial bodies\u201d charge was held in Diyarbak\u0131r. Giving more time for \u00d6nder’s lawyer to prepare his defense against the final opinion, the court adjourned the trial until September.
Police attacked yesterday the Pride Parade in Ankara. Mezopotamya Agency reporter Emel Vural was beaten by the police, exposed to pepper spray and taken to hospital. 
46 people detained yesterday in Ankara during the Pride Parade were released. 
An appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling to fine the CHP for its 2021 video criticizing former Finance Minister Berat Albayrak over the missing $128 billion in Central Bank reserves.
HDP Turgutlu Co-chairs Hayri B\u00f6k\u00fc and Naile G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015fta\u015f who stood trial over “membership in an organization” charges were sentenced to 13 years in prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 05.07.2022<\/strong>
Police attacked the press release that Dicle F\u0131rat Journalists Association (DFG) and Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform (MKGP) wanted to make in Ankara’s Ulus Square for 16 journalists arrested in Diyarbak\u0131r. 3 journalist have been detained. 
The police blockade of Piya and Ari production companies, which were raided as part of the operation against journalists in Diyarbak\u0131r, has been going on for 27 days.
The 2nd hearing of the trial in which journalist Nurcan Yal\u00e7\u0131n faces \u201caiding an organization knowingly and willingly\u201d charge was held in Diyarbak\u0131r. Today’s hearing was held by an interim panel of judges. Giving more time for Yal\u00e7\u0131n’s lawyer to prepare his arguments against the prosecutor’s final opinion, the court adjourned the trial until September.
All defendants were acquitted yesterday in the case concerning the forced disappearances of eight people in the Darge\u00e7it district of Mardin. Seven civilians had gone missing in Darge\u00e7it between 1995 and 1996. Bodies of some of them had been recovered later. 
The European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber has announced that the case of Osman Kavala will be heard on July 11 in Strasbourg. The hearing will be open to the public. 
The second hearing of the trial in which 8 SES executives, including imprisoned co-chair Selma Atabey and former chair G\u00f6n\u00fcl Erden, faces “being a member of an illegal organisation” charges was held in Ankara. The court decided to continue the detention of Erden and to remand in custody Atabey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 04.07.2022<\/strong>
Yesterday Turkish soldiers opened fire against a bus carrying refugees in the Saray district of Van. A 4-year-old boy was killed and 13 people were injured as a result of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP Urfa Provincial executive \u00d6mer Altun, who attended the HDP 5th Ordinary Congress in Ankara on Sunday, was taken into custody.
The third hearing of the trial in which the Executive Board Member of D\u0130SK Bas\u0131n \u0130\u015f and journalist Ali Ergin Demirhan faces \u201cinsulting the president\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. The court ruled to acquit journalist Demirhan on the grounds that the elements of the alleged offense did not occur.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu (CHP) has said that he could be dismissed from the post if President Erdo\u011fan assumes power once again in the upcoming elections.
Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University’s appointed rector Naci \u0130nci has threatened students against initiating any kind of protest during the graduation ceremony, saying that otherwise they will have their graduate ID cards canceled.
Foreign Minister \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said \u201cIf these countries [Sweden and Finland] do not keep their word, we will take our steps accordingly,”. 
Turkish Medical Association calls for indoor mask mandate as Covid cases triple in a week. The  indoor mask mandate was lifted in late April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Today – 03.07.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HDP today is holding its 5th Ordinary Congress. Tens of thousands of people from all over Turkey have arrived in Ankara for the meeting. Pervin Buldan and Prof. Mithat Sancar were re-elected as Co-chairs. 
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office immediately opened an investigation against the HDP on ‘propaganda for an organisation’ charges. 
Since the beginning of the week, around forty people from Kurdish politics and culture have been in police custody in Adana on terrorism charges. 
Another civilian, Mohammed Khaled al-Mohammad (23), was killed by shelling from Turkish-occupied territory near Manbij. Al-Mohammad was collecting this year’s harvest in the village of Mazra’at al-Jarad when he was killed. 
Yesterday, the attack by a Turkish drone left an SDF commander dead and two other fighters injured in Raqqa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.07.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u015eehmuz Emen, who is held in Adana K\u00fcrk\u00e7\u00fcler Type E Closed Prison, was tortured by the guards and put naked in the cell on which water was poured. While what Emen lived was reflected in the cameras, two separate lawsuits were filed against the guards who tortured them. 
Thousands attended a commemorative march to mark the 29th anniversary of a massacre which targeted Turkey\u2019s Alevi community in Sivas. A large group of radical Islamists set the Mad\u0131mak Hotel in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas on fire on July 2, 1993, killing 33 intellectuals. Police and fire brigade watched without intervening. 
In Osmaniye, a lynch mob chased a group of migrants who had fled from a detention centre. Numerous people were injured, and it is still unclear whether there are any dead.
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has denounced police violence against and detentions of journalists in Turkey. RSF called on the Ministry of Interior to end violence against journalists following demonstrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.07.2022 
Access to the webpages of Voice of America and Deutsche Welle has been blocked due to the two outlet’s failure to apply to the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RT\u00dcK) for a license. 
The 4th hearing of the trial in which journalist Vedat \u00d6r\u00fc\u00e7 faces \u201cdefying the Law no. 2911 on Assemblies and Demonstrations\u201d & \u201cinsulting a public officer\u201d charges was held in \u0130stanbul. The court acquitted \u00d6r\u00fc\u00e7 of the offenses he was charged with on the grounds that the elements of the alleged crime did not occur. 
Turkish police stopped a young man named Welat Inan, who was returning home with his friends after work in Yenimahalle borough, in Siirt. Four policemen attacked the man in the middle of the street.
CHP is seeking a commitment from HDP to back a single challenger to President Erdo\u011fan at presidential elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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