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Turkey Weekly 26.09 – 02.10.22<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.10.2022<\/strong>
Five people who were arrested in Mersin on terrorism charges on September 30 were sent to prison.\u00a0\u00a0
\u201cWe are closely following whether the promises made by Sweden and Finland are kept or not, and of course, the final decision will be up to our great parliament,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.\u00a0
Foreign Ministry has stated that it rejects Russia’s decision to annex the four regions in Ukraine (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia), adding it had not recognised “the annexation of Crimea” in 2014 as well.
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 573. The sit-in was launched in 2021 by Emine \u015eenya\u015far, who 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 Urfa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.10.2022<\/strong>
Peace Mothers S\u0131d\u0131ka Erdem and Hatice Beytur were detained in a raid on their home in the Cizre district of \u015e\u0131rnak. After the searches conducted in the houses, Erdem and Beytur were taken to the District Police Department.
Durri Kaygusuz, mother of \u015eaban Kaygusuz who is 90 percent disabled and being to stand up in prison even though he is missing one leg, pointed out that the pressure on prisoners had increased.\u00a0
The National Intelligence Organization and Statistical Institute have not given information with regards to their activity reports and financial statements to the Court of Accounts which carries out audits on behalf of the parliament.
Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu has reportedly ordered that state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reporters not be admitted to the events he attended, after having an argument with senior officials of the agency.\u00a0
CHP leader K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has said that his party is ready to discuss with the government the pardoning of some inmates, excluding those charged with “terrorism, assault, rape and similar crimes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 30.09.2022<\/strong>
The indictment prepared against HDP Deputy Semra G\u00fczel was served by Anadolu Agency (AA) before it was uploaded to UYAP.
As part of the investigation carried out by the Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on the grounds of “terrorist propaganda”, many houses were raided. 9 people were arrested during the raids.\u00a0
“Life and freedom are now braided with J\u00eena’s hair!” said, 412 intellectuals, artists and writers and made a statement of support for the protests that started after J\u00eena Mahsa Amin\u00ee was murdered in Iran.\u00a0
Sweden’s Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) has announced that it lifted restrictions on exports of military equipment to T\u00fcrkiye.
The \u0130stanbul Governor Office has refused to permit an investigation into a police chief who battered and threatened LGBTI+s during the 30th LGBTI+ Pride Parade in \u0130stanbul.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 29.09.2022<\/strong>
The 3rd hearing of the trial in which 8 HDP MPs, including the imprisoned former Co-chair Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f face multiple charges was held in Silvan.\u00a0The court’s decided to consider the request by \u00c7a\u011flar Demirel to hear the district governor of the time after all the statements are provided. Trial adjourned until January.\u00a0
Diyarbak\u0131r Police Department cannot reach police Serdar G\u00f6k, who has an arrest warrant, in the case where he was charged with assaulting the Menice-\u015eeyhmus Y\u0131lmaz couple.
HDP Diyarbak\u0131r MP Garo Paylan has warned that the last remaining synagogue in T\u00fcrkiye’s southeastern Diyarbak\u0131r city is under the risk of collapse.\u00a0
In the trial in which journalist Cengiz \u00c7andar and activist Kemal I\u015f\u0131kta\u015f face \u201cpraising an offense and the offender\u201d charge, the court rejected the request of \u00c7andar\u2019s lawyers for immediate acquittal.
The court\u2019s ruled to wait for the rogatory letters issued to Germany in the trial of Die Welt correspondent Deniz Y\u00fccel. Trial adjourned until January.\u00a0
The trial of journalist Z\u00fcbeyde Sar\u0131 who faces \u201cinciting the public to hatred and hostility\u201d charge because of her social media posts, is adjourned until December due to the assignment of a new prosecutor to the case file.\u00a0
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that Turkey \u201ccan monotonously continue its lies and threats but is alone in this game,\u201d following Turkish President Erdo\u011fan’s remarks of “support from America and Europe will not save you”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 28.09.2022<\/strong>
The Foreign Ministry summoned Germany’s ambassador to Ankara and condemned the vice-speaker of the German Federal Parliament Wolfgang Kubicki (Free Democratic Party) for likening President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan to a “little sewer rat.”\u00a0
The 2nd hearing of the trial in which 5 people including the Demokratik Modernite Magazine\u2019s editor Ramazan Yurttapn, Pakrat Estukyan and lawyer Emran Emek\u00e7i face \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Trial adjourned until February.\u00a0
The 13th hearing of the trial in which journalist Hayri Demir faces \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d and \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charges was held in Ankara. The court’s accepted the prosecutor’s request and decided to give additional time for the prosecution to present its final opinion as to the accusations. Trial adjourned until October.\u00a0
Journalist Sabahattin \u00d6nkibar has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for \u201cinsulting\u201d President Erdo\u011fan. Following the court\u2019s ruling, \u00d6nk\u0131bar said that the sentence was given to wear down and oppress critics.
Islamist Felicity Party (Saadet) leader Temel Karamollao\u011flu has said that he was not initially planning to be in the opposition\u2019s alliance but his meetings with President Erdo\u011fan forced him to do so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 27.09.2022<\/strong>
One police officer was killed yesterday evening when a bomb exploded near a residence that houses police in Mersin, while a second officer was wounded.\u00a0
Condemning the court’s refusal of its decision to hear then-Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu as a witness in the Tahir El\u00e7i murder case, Diyarbakir Bar Association made a statement and said: “This decision is a disgraceful scandal.”
The hearing of the trial in which HDP former MP \u00c7a\u011flar Demirel faces “insulting the state and government of the Republic of Turkey” charges was held in Diyarbak\u0131r. The prosecution demanded that Demirel be sentenced to imprisonment under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.\u00a0
The 6th hearing of the trial in which author and journalist Burhan Ekinci who lives abroad faces \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Ekinci’s lawyers requested that the court issue a writ so that the statement of their client can be taken via rogatory letters. The court rejected the request on the grounds that Germany does not respond to such requests from Turkey and decided to wait for the execution of the arrest warrant issued against Ekinci. Trial adjourned until February.\u00a0
Emine Erdo\u011fan has filed a lawsuit against journalist G\u00f6kay Ba\u015fcan for “insult.” The lawsuit concerns a report in the daily BirG\u00fcn about connections with the Presidency of Environment Agency.\u00a0
An appeal was made to the Court of Cassation against the acquittal of the local court against the non-commissioned officers Ali Kaya and \u00d6zcan \u0130ldeniz and the confessor Veysel Ate\u015f, who were caught red-handed while bombing the Umut Bookstore.
Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has said that Malaysia and Indonesia had expressed keen interest in buying armed drones from Turkish defence firm Baykar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 26.09.2022<\/strong>
In the case where Bar\u0131\u015f Group member Mehmet \u015eirin Tun\u00e7 is on trial for “being a member in a terrorist organisation”, the prosecutor gave his opinion with a request for up to 15 years in prison. Tun\u00e7 came to Turkey as a member of the \u201cPeace Group\u201d in 1999 after s call of PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan.\u00a0
Yesterday the\u00a0Free Women’s Movement held its 4th Women’s conference in Batman. Stating that the TJA conference was a motivation at a time when the attacks were intensifying, the women gave the message, “Women will have the last word. We will defeat evil with the power of women.”\u00a0
HDP Diyarbak\u0131r MP Semra G\u00fczel, whose immunity has been lifted and who has been arrested on September 2, has been held in a cell for 23 days.
Democratic Modernity Magazine employee Ramazan Di\u015far\u0131 was arrested on the grounds that the \u00a0magazine\u00a0 identification card he worked for was “fake”, the news about him and the magazine he sold.\u00a0Police detained three people who unfurled the flag of Kurdistan Regional of Iraq during a match between football teams Amedspor and Bursaspor in Diyarbak\u0131r.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 19 – 25 September 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 25.09.2022<\/strong>
Sakine Karakurt said that her son who is imprisoned in Antalya S Type Prison was threatened by the guards with death. 
Sibel Bala\u00e7 who is on death fast was brought back to Bak\u0131rk\u00f6y Prison in \u0130stanbul after two weeks in a hospital in Ankara. 
Turkey may purchase Russian Su-35 fighter jets in the event that the deal on the acquisition of U.S.-made F-16s fails, the country\u2019s Defense Industry Agency President Ismail Demir said. 
Turkey stands with Ukraine in its war with Russia and will defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kal\u0131n said. 
During the protests against the ban on the Sarigazi Festival in \u0130stanbul, 17 people, including HDP politicians, were arrested. 
Family and Social Services Minister Derya Yan\u0131k has condemned the anti-LGBTI+ “hate” rally held last weekend in Istanbul. Yet she said that the ruling AKP “has values and does not have the luxury of normalizing homosexuality.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 24.09.2022<\/strong>
The Labour and Freedom Alliance, formed by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Social Freedom Party (T\u00d6P), Labour Movement Party (EHP), Federation of Socialist Assemblies (SMF), Workers’ Party of Turkey (T\u0130P) and Labour Party (EMEP), held its first public meeting today in Istanbul. 
Prisoners held in cells in Konya Ere\u011fli High Security Prison called on MPs to visit the prison in order to remedy the violations.
Seriously ill prisoner Tenzile Acar, who is being held in Bak\u0131rk\u00f6y Women’s Closed Prison, stated that cleaning and bathroom supplies were confiscated in the wards where the scabies epidemic broke out.
Bahattin Keve, the father of Bar\u0131\u015f Keve who died under suspicious circumstances in the prison where he was transferred, stated that they do not believe that his son committed suicide and said: “My son was murdered in an organised way.”
Saturday Mothers came together in week 913 for a press release in the office of Human Rights Association regarding the detention of their members at the court. 
The governor\u2019s office of Urfa province has cancelled singer \u0130kkay Akkaya\u2019s concert planned at a shopping mall for Sept. 25 on the grounds that it \u201cwas not seen appropriate for general security, public order, safety and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 23.09.2022<\/strong>
Imprisoned Kurdish politicians Selahattin Demirta\u015f and Sel\u00e7uk M\u0131zrakl\u0131 shaved their heads for J\u00eena Mahsa Amini, murdered by the Iran state.
Turkey carried out an airstrike on a house in the Til Ez\u00ear district of Shengal. 
Prisoners Mehmet Aytun\u00e7 Altay, Hasan Y\u0131ld\u0131z, Suat Incedere and Eren Y\u0131ld\u0131z, who were held in Edirne F Type Prison and in the same cell, were hastily deporte d to other prisons at midnight. 
Prosecutors have demanded a jail term for the mayor of the Aegean province of \u0130zmir\u2019s Gaziemir district on charges of \u201cinsulting the President in a continuous way\u201d through social media posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second hearing of the trial in which journalist Rabia \u00d6nver faces \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge is being held in the Van. 
Mafia leader Sedat Peker\u2019s lawyer Ersan Bark\u0131n announced on Twitter that the scope of red notice for Peker has been extended as \u201cwanted all over the world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 22.09.2022<\/strong>
The military operation launched on September 18 in Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district continues.
Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to meet with their client. 
Kadri Esen, the grant holder of Xweb\u00fbn, a weekly Kurdish newspaper, has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organzation.”
Istanbul Governor\u2019s Office has refused to grant permission to prosecutors for the launch of an investigation against police officers who battered journalists on the ninth year anniversary of the Gezi protests.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that a prison administration\u2019s refusal to give the opposition daily Evrensel to an inmate did not constitute as a violation of rights.
An Istanbul court adjourned the trial of Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu to November. \u0130mamo\u011flu is accused of “insulting” members of Turkey’s election board during a speech in November 2019. The case could lead to a political ban for \u0130mamo\u011flu if he were found guilty. 
A citizen named Esat \u00c7akmak, who was detained during the village raid in Y\u00fcksekova, was arrested on charges of “being a member in a terrorist organisation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 21.09.2022<\/strong>
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office used the phrase “a family who claims to be Kurdish” for the Dedeo\u011fullar\u0131 family, who were killed in a racist attack in 2021. 
HDP will take to the streets tomorrow in solidarity with the demonstrations that started after the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini. 
Ahead of the fifth hearing of the case against some members of the Saturday Mothers, the group gathered in front of the \u0130stanbul Courthouse in \u00c7a\u011flayan.The police did not allow the group to read out a statement, detaining at least 10 people, including defending lawyers and union representatives.
Yesterday Turkey launched artillery strikes on a border outpost in Kobane. Three soldiers of Syria were killed and two SDF members were wounded in the strikes. 
Thousands of trees were cut down after the local authority of Gerc\u00fc\u015f claimed that “wolves are killing the sheeps”. The Forestry Directorate claimed that they could not intervene in the cutting of trees.
12-year-old H.E., whose right hand was severed due to the explosion of a military object in Ba\u015fkale and lost his sight in one eye, stated that his only wish was to regain his severed hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 20.09.2022<\/strong>
The Constitutional Court rejected all HDP’s requests for additional evidence in the closure case. 
A military operation was launched in Diyarbak\u0131r’s Dicle district. 
The remains of HPG member Mahsum \u00d6zer, who lost his life as a result of an airstrike in Dersim, was delivered to his family 7 years later. 
The third hearing of the trial in which journalist Baransel A\u011fca faces \u201cdegrading the religious values of a section of the public\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Trial adjourned until January. 
The 7th hearing of the \u201cBo\u011fazi\u00e7i Rainbow case\u201d in which 12 students of Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University face \u201cdefying the Law no.2911 on Demonstrations and Assemblies\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Giving additional time for the prosecutor to prepare his final opinion as to the accusations, the court’s adjourned the trial until November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 19.09.2022<\/strong>
Turkish Armed Forces warplanes bombed Metina and Amediye in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambulance was denied to the family of Bar\u0131\u015f Keve, who came to take the body of Bar\u0131\u015f Keve (25) who died in a cell in Malatya Ak\u00e7ada\u011f Type T Closed Prison.
Contrary to his first statement in the Kemal Kurkut case, Police Chief Erdo\u011fan Tetik claimed that Kurkut had a machete, a kind of sword, not a knife in his hand. University student Kemal Kurkut was murdered by the police on Newroz Celebrations in 2017 in Diyarbak\u0131r. 
In the final hearing of the trial against journalist Hatice \u015eahin, an employee of Yeni Ya\u015fam Newspaper, the court sentenced \u015eahin to 6 years and 3 months in prison. 
The Osmanc\u0131k District Municipality in the northern province of \u00c7orum has canceled the concert of the pop singer Aleyna Tilki because of her remarks against yesterday’s anti-LGBTI+ rally in \u0130stanbul. 
Authorities have launched an investigation into 16 people who were brutally detained during a commemoration ceremony to mark the seventh-year anniversary of the Suru\u00e7 massacre in Istanbul\u2019s Kad\u0131k\u00f6y district in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Weekly 12 – 18 September 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 18.09.2022<\/strong>
The representative of the provincial association of Democratic Regions Party Metin Inci was arrested in Mersin. 
The foreign ministry has said it strongly condemned the decision taken by the United States to lift defence trade restrictions for Cyprus.
President Erdo\u011fan told reporters on Saturday Turkey and Russia had reached a deal resolving a dispute over the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction in southern Turkey.
Emre Olur, who is known as the press advisor of Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker, has been brought to Istanbul from Albanian capital Tirana where he was detained.
Two concerts that Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo was planning to hold in Turkey have been cancelled after the artist was targeted by Turkish pro-government media and Islamist figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 17.09.2022<\/strong>
The lawyers of 16 journalists arrested in Diyarbak\u0131r on the allegation of “being a member of a terrorist organization” on June 16 applied to the Constitutional Court on the grounds that the illegality of the arrest. 
The HDP Esenyurt District Organization in \u0130stanbul gathered outside a primary school in the district to read out a statement about mother tongue education. The police did not allow the gathering and detained nine people. 
Political prisoners in Erzincan Type T Closed Prison were given a one-month communcation ban for making pickles. 
Relatives of the forcefully disappeared and the \u0130HD Batman Branch told the life story of Kurdish journalist Ap\u00ea Musa whose case case dropped due to on September 20 demanded the perpetrators to be revealed.
Thousands of people gathered in \u015e\u0131rnak for the Cudi Rally against “Destruction of War and Plundering of Nature”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 16.09.2022<\/strong>
Family of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a meeting. 
The seventh hearing of the trial in which journalist Rojda O\u011fuz faces \u201cmembership in a terrorist organization\u201d and \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charges is being held in the Van. She is acquitted of the membership charge. The court sentenced journalist O\u011fuz to 1 year 6 months and 22 days in prison for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” and deferred the announcement of the verdict. 
The National Defense Ministry has announced that over 3.25 million tons of grains were shipped out of Ukraine since August under a landmark grain deal. 
AKP MP M\u00fccahit Ar\u0131n\u00e7 has commented on mafia boss Sedat Peker\u2019s allegations of corruption against government officials, saying that if there is any \u201ctruth\u201d to them, they need to be investigated immediately.
President Erdo\u011fan has targeted \u0130zmir Mayor Tun\u00e7 Soyer after criticism of the Ottoman Empire\u2019s rulership. \u201cWhen did you come to a point to insult the Ottoman (Empire)? You impertinent! This person\u2019s father was the same, and he is the same,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 15.09.2022<\/strong>
The Musa Anter Case, which will drop due to prescription on September 20, has been postponed to September 21. Kurdish journalists Musa Anter was murdered in 1992 in Diyarbak\u0131r. 
\u00c7etin Do\u011fan, who was subjected to a racist attack for defending education in Kurdish, in the barracks during mandatory military duty, was sued for “propagandizing a terrorist organisation”. The perpetrator was given a remission for “unjust provocation”.
The Radio and Television Supreme Council has fined Halk TV because of comments about the delivery of a Kurdish man’s remains to his family in a sack. 
Human rights advocate Eren Keskin gave a statement to the police because of a reply to her tweet. \u201cIt was a very ironic situation showing the point freedom of expression has come in Turkey,\u201d she said. 
The 2nd hearing of the trial in which the President of the Ankara Branch of the Chamber of Architects Tezcan Karaku\u015f Candan and 6 former members of the Executive Committee face \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge was held in Ankara. Trial adjourned until November. 
The 5th hearing of the \u00d6zg\u00fcrl\u00fck\u00e7\u00fc Demokrasi retrial in which journalists \u0130hsan Ya\u015far, \u0130shak Yasul, M. Ali \u00c7elebi, Mizgin Fendik, P\u0131nar Tarlak, Reyhan Hac\u0131o\u011flu & Hicran Urun face multiple charges was held in \u0130stanbul. Rejecting the defense lawyers’ request, the court’s also decided to continue the international travel ban imposed upon the journalists and adjourned the trial until December. 
An armed attack was carried out early yesterday on Sedat Peker’s house in \u0130stanbul. One person was injured. Living abroad since late 2019, Peker has an arrest warrant against him for leading a criminal organization. Recently he claimed to expose a bribery network involving presidential advisors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 14.09.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking part in the meeting with the delegation of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (SPT), HDP MP H\u00fcseyin Ka\u00e7maz said: “The SPT should examine \u0130mral\u0131 which is the source of torture, isolation and civilian death.”
Sibel Bala\u00e7, who continues her death fast in Sincan Women’s Closed Prison with the demand for a “fair trial”, has dropped to 39 kilograms.
Sinan Ayg\u00fcl, the editor-in-chief of the Bitlis News website and the head of the Bitlis Journalists Association, was arrested after refusing to pay the fine for “insulting” an AKP MP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeals hearing of the 10 month prison sentence imposed upon journalist Alican Uluda\u011f for \u201cpointing officials on anti-terror duties as targets\u201d was held in Ankara. The court’s adjourned the trial until November 23rd so that the prosecutor can prepare his final opinion.
The minister for Culture and Tourism says citizens can apply to judiciary if unhappy with concert cancellations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 13.09.2022<\/strong>
The Ministry of Justice did not respond to the application for information about imprisoned journalists, saying “This information does not concern the public”.
Dicle Electricity Distribution Cooperation (DEDA\u015e) and hundreds of soldiers raided a village of \u015e\u0131rnak’s Cizre district. The tension between DEDA\u015e teams and citizens under the military blockade continues.
Four women journalists in the Diyarbak\u0131r Women’s Prison have started a hunger strike to draw attention to rights violations in prisons.
The first hearing of the trial in which journalist Sultan Kele\u015f faces \u201cprevention of public duty\u201d and \u201cinsulting a public official\u201d charges was held in \u0130stanbul. Trial adjourned until February. 
The third hearing of the trial in which journalists \u0130zel Sezer and Do\u011fan Erg\u00fcn face multiple charges upon complaint by Mustafa \u0130nal, the former lawyer of President Erdo\u011fan was held in \u0130stanbul. Trial adjourned until December. 
The second hearing of the trial of police officers who had violently taken journalist G\u00f6khan Bi\u00e7ici into custody while he was covering the Gezi Park protests was held in \u0130stanbul. The court’s decided to hear witnesses as requested by Bi\u00e7ici’s lawyers and decided to subpoena a defendant who failed the attend today’s hearing as well. Trial adjourned until November. 
The family from I\u011fd\u0131r, who went to Arpadere village to see the house they bought from \u0130ncirliova district, was subjected to a racist attack by the villagers. Emrah \u00c7akmaz, who called the gendarmerie and asked for help, was told that he should go to the hospital and get an assault report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 12.09.2022<\/strong>
Former HDP MP G\u00fclser Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m is still not released from prison despite completing her sentence three months ago. The Court of Cassation has not yet examined Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m’s appeal and has not responded to her lawyers’ petitions about her prolonged imprisonment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release of Selahattin Demir, who is being held in Type T Bafra Closed Prison for the last 30 years, and the release of 5 other prisoners, has been postponed for 3 months by the Administrative Monitoring Board claiming that they were “not in good behavior”.
The remains of 3 PKK members kept in Hakkari State Hospital have not been delivered to the families for 38 days despite the autopsy procedures having been completed.
\u0130stanbul 7th Heavy Penal Court has lifted the house arrest of the singer G\u00fcl\u015fen, who has been indicted for “provoking the public into hatred and hostility.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 5-11 September 2022<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 11.09.2022<\/strong>
3 more prisoners joined the hunger strike in K\u0131r\u0131klar Prison. 
Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson has stated that no Kurds with Swedish citizenship will be extradited, upon Turkey’s previous extradition requests for people it considers “terrorists.”
While Turkey’s attacks on the Kurdistan region of Iraq continue, MIT chief Hakan Fidan paid a visit to Baghdad. It was reported that Fidan met with Hamis Han\u00e7er, the Leader of the Sunni Sovereignty Coalition.
Main opposition CHP Istanbul chair Canan Kaftanc\u0131o\u011flu has been fined 10,620 liras over charges of \u201cinsulting\u201d Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Human Rights Association (IHD) Ankara branch launched a Peace Vigil demanding the defence of the right to peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 10.09.2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehmet Hamurcu had posted pictures of a cemetery for soldiers and police officers in Antep on his Twitter account yesterday and asked why so many new graves were being dug. Today he was detained.
The Ministry of Interior announced that a military operation was launched in Mu\u015f.
In the 16th hearing of the Koban\u00ea Case the court decided to continue the detention of 20 politicians and adjourned the hearing for two weeks.
A court banned the printing, distribution and sale of former HDP Co-Chair Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f’s book “Y\u0131k\u0131lacak Duvarlar” (Walls to be Destroyed), which was published in 2020. The court ordered the book to be confiscated and the confiscated copies to be destroyed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy awarded Turkish defence firm Baykar’s Chief Executive Haluk Bayraktar with the Ukrainian Order of Merit. Baykar will build a factory in Ukraine, Zelenskiy said.
After cell searches, 6 prisoners were put in solitary confinement in Bafra prison, 4 were transferred to other prisons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 09.09.2022<\/strong>
Lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan applied to the CPT and demanded an urgent visit to Imrali prison island. There has been no news from the island for 17 months. 
Senior ISIS leader Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, codenamed Abu Zeid\/Master Zeid, a citizen of Iraq, was captured in \u0130stanbul. 
President Erdo\u011fan has endorsed his Russian counterpart Putin and stated that Ukraine’s grain “unfortunately goes to rich countries, not to poor countries”.
Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan and his Syrian counterpart Ali Mamlouk held a meeting under Russian auspices, according to reporting by the French intelligence website Intelligence Online. 
It was stated that 15 prisoners whose wards were raided and all their materials confiscated in Bafra Type T Prison were put in cells. The prisoners, who called their families on the phone, said that they had no life security. 
Municipal officials in Ankara ask foreign citizens to pay for time higher “deposit fees” for first subscriptions, but there are no written instructions for such a practice, said Y\u0131lmaz Yard\u0131mc\u0131, the secretary-general of the T\u00fcm Bel-Sen municipal workers’ union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 08.09.2022<\/strong>
Four villages of Diyarbak\u0131r’s Dicle district have been under blockade for 7 years. 
Antalya 6th Penal Judgeship of Peace has banned a poetry book written by imprisoned HDP’s former co-chair Figen Y\u00fcksekda\u011f due to ‘terrorist propaganda’. 
Journalists Sad\u0131k Topalo\u011flu and Sadiye Eser were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for “membership of a terrorist organisation” based on the statements of the witness who never testified at the hearings.
The fourth hearing of the trial in which BirG\u00fcn daily\u2019s Politics Editor Mehmet Emin Kurnaz faces \u201cinsulting the president\u201d and \u201cinsulting a public official\u201d charges was held in \u0130stanbul. The court’s decided to adjourn the case until October 20th so that the case file can be reviewed before the verdict.
The appeal against the arrest of 16 journalists in Diyarbak\u0131r was once again rejected. 
ETHA and MA reporters, who were exposed to police violence and detention while they were following news, filed a criminal complaint against the police.
80-year-old Makbule \u00d6zer, who was released from prison yesterday, stated that they were arrested with her husband because they are Kurds, and said: \u201cI didn’t miss the outside world in prison because I was constantly ill.\u201d 
Continuing the sit-in with his mother, Ferit \u015eenya\u015far said that their request to meet with the 10th prosecutor who was assigned to the case of the massacre in the hospital, which has been carried out “confidently” for more than 4 years, was rejected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 07.09.2022<\/strong>
President Erdo\u011fan has accused Europe of provoking Putin to cut off gas supplies through anti-Russia policies and a sanction regime. 
16 journalists held in Diyarbak\u0131r Prison reported that the wards where women are held, are monitored by surveillence cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diyanet vice chair Burhan \u0130\u015fliyen has targeted women through their outfits on Diyanet TV, saying that women were not covering themselves enough in especially wedding ceremonies. 
The Van Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against journalist Oktay Candemir, who had reported on cars rented for President Recep Erdo\u011fan’s rally in Van in June. According to his reports, 1.37 million US dollars was paid for the cars rented for two days. 
The judge who ordered the arrest of Osman Kavala and journalist Sedef Kaba\u015f has been appointed as the presiding judge of the Bitlis Heavy Penal Court. 
The Interior Ministry expelled Ankara Architects Chamber chair Tezcan Karaku\u015f Candan from civil service. The chamber had previously sued the construction of the presidential palace on forest land in Ankara’s Atat\u00fcrk Forest Farm and the construction of TOGO Towers.
The Istanbul Governor\u2019s Office has transferred the ownership of two waterside mansions in the Ortak\u00f6y district from the Metropolitan Municipality to the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 06.09.2022<\/strong>
Clashes broke out between Turkish soldiers and HPG members in the Omeriya region in Mardin\u2019s Nusaybin district, which was bombed yesterday. 
Emel Hac\u0131o\u011flu, a ordinary prisoner in Diyarbak\u0131r Women’s Closed Prison, died under suspicious circumstances. 
\u015eirin Keskin, who is being held in Samsun Bafra Type T Closed Prison, conveyed the violations of rights she went through in the phone call with her family yesterday.
The first hearing of the trial in which lawyer Efkan Bola\u00e7 faces \u201cinsulting the president\u201d charge was held in the \u0130stanbul. The court’s accepted the intervention request by the lawyers of President Erdo\u011fan on the grounds that Erdo\u011fan might have been harmed by the alleged offense. Trial adjourned until January. 
The second hearing of the trial in which the Co-Chair of Human Rights Association’s Ankara Branch Fatin Kanat faces \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge was held in Ankara. The members of the court panel were changed at this hearing. The new panel notified the lawyers that they didn’t review the case file. Trial adjourned until October.
Prosecutors have opened an ex officio investigation against journalist Can D\u00fcndar for \u201cinsulting the president\u201d and \u201cinsulting the Turkish nation\u201d. The investigation concerns a YouTube video where D\u00fcndar comments on recent allegations of government corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 05.09.2022<\/strong>
Seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin \u00d6zkan, who has been under treatment in the intensive care unit for 4 days in the hospital where he was taken after took a turn for the worse, was taken out of the hospital and taken back to the prison with his hands in handcuffs in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hunger strike launched by 3 seriously ill political prisoners in K\u0131r\u0131klar Prison against the violations of rights continues on its 9th day. The hunger strike in Denizli Prison is on its 36th day.
20 journalists, including DFG Co-chair Dicle M\u00fcft\u00fco\u011flu and TGS Chair G\u00f6khan Durmu\u015f, were blacklisted at the request of the General Directorate of Security. The document labeled as confidential appeared in the case file where M\u00fcft\u00fco\u011flu was being tried.
President Erdo\u011fan warned Greece, saying that Athens “occupied” Aegean Sea islands and that Turkey was prepared to “do what is necessary”. 
CHP Chair K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has said that he is ready to run for president if the six opposition leaders agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Today – 04.09.2022<\/strong>
Yesterday police raided two houses in \u0130stanbul. HDP Youth Council member H\u00fcsamettin Tanr\u0131kulu was detained. According to his lawyer Nagehan Av\u00e7il he was threatened with death. 
Imprisoned journalist Ziya Ataman was forced to strip search and is currently in solitary confinement. 
Attacks of Turkish Armed Forces against Metina region in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continue. A forest fire broke out. 
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 545. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 03.09.2022<\/strong>
HDP Diyarbak\u0131r MP Semra G\u00fczel whose parliamentary immunity was lifted in March was detained in Istanbul yesterday. 
Etkin News Agency reporter Elif Bayburt has been violently taken into police custody while covering a demonstration. Bayburt’s been taken into custody with her hands cuffed behind her back and is now being taken to the Vatan Police Station. 
Stage 4 cancer ill prisoner Ehettin Kaynar, who was transferred from Karab\u00fck Prison to Ankara, was released late last night.
Saturday Mothers came together in week 910 for a press release in the office of Human Rights Association regarding the detention of their members. 
President Erdo\u011fan has called opposition T\u0130P lawmaker Ahmet \u015e\u0131k a \u201cterrorist\u201d after \u015e\u0131k referred to the ruling AKP as \u201ca crime organization\u201d and envisaged that it will be shut down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.09.2022<\/strong>
Political parties and rights groups have marked Peace Day, which is celebrated on September 1, in \u0130stanbul, Ankara, Diyarbak\u0131r and several other cities. Police detained dozens of people.
In Van, the police pulled guns on journalists who were following HDO’s rally on the occasion of World Peace Day and threatened them with death. The moments when the police pulled a gun were reflected in the image.
The police shot Adem Kara (21) with a gun at the animal market in Mardin. According to the police he did not obey the stop warning. 
A lawsuit has been filed against those who participated in the protest for Enes Kara, a university student who ended his life due to the pressures he got through in the community dormitory, and the journalists who followed the protest.
The \u0130stanbul 27th Penal Court of First Instance has rejected an appeal by pop singer G\u00fcl\u015fen’s lawyer for the lift of her house arrest.
President Erdo\u011fan has dismissed his advisor Serkan Tarano\u011flu following the corruption allegations made by mafia boss Sedat Peker. 
After the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s dismissal of 43 employees, the Ata\u015fehir Municipality has also terminated the contracts of four employees as a result of investigations launched by the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.09.2022<\/strong>
As Turkish courts opened their new judicial year today, 81 provincial bar associations have released a joint statement emphasizing the importance of judicial independence and rule of law.
Asr\u0131n Law Office’s lawyers applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and \u0130mral\u0131 Prison Directorate to meet with PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan, whom they had not heard from for 18 months.
The tree cutting, which has been slowing down for a while in the Besta Region, has been accelerated again on the grounds of “road building works”.
President Erdo\u011fan has referred to teachers as \u201clooters\u201d (\u201c\u00e7apulcu\u201d in Turkish) for protesting  low wages and poor working conditions. 
Education Ministry has sent a letter to 81 provincial directorates, warning them against the increase in the number of students seeking asylum abroad after being sent there under the Erasmus program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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