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Turkey Weekly 23 – 29 January 2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 29.01.2023<\/strong>
Yeni Ya\u015fam newspaper employee Rojin Altay was detained at the airport while trying to go to Diyarbak\u0131r from \u0130stanbul Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en Airport.\u00a0
A 74-year-old man has been imprisoned on terror charges in Ad\u0131yaman.\u00a0
According to the information received from sources in the region, the Turkish state deported 100 Syrian refugees to their occupied regions in northern Syria.\u00a0
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached 692. The sit-in was launched on March 9, 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 28.01.2023<\/strong>
The prosecutor, who prepared an indictment against DBP Diyarbak\u0131r Provincial Co-Chair Hayrettin Altun, affixed the police enquiry report “the issues were followed by our teams” and demanded up to 15 years in prison.
Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office regarding the imposition of women journalists were stripped search. The appeal against non-prosecution was dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news stories notes and his work in the municipal press unit were considered as sufficient evidence in two separate cases that continue with the trial against journalist Murat Verim, who was imprisoned after Greece’s extradition to Turkey.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu has visited the family of the former Grey Wolves head Sinan Ate\u015f, who was assassinated on Dec. 30, 2022.
Three embassies have warned their citizens against possible terror attacks in Turkey, especially in places of worship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 27.01.2023<\/strong>
An HDP delegation visited the former Co-Chair of the party, Selahattin Demirta\u015f, to exchange opinion on the elections.
The fourth hearing of the trial in which 15 people who were taken into police custody during the 2018 October 10th Massacre Commemoration in Van face \u201cprevention of public duty\u201d charges was held in Van. The court decided to issue writs so that the statements of complainant police officers can be taken and decided to wait for the case file to be completed. Trial adjourned until April 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens living in the villages on the slopes of Mount Cudi stated that they were pressured to cut down the trees in the forest area. 
Two new lawsuits were filed against Emine \u015eenya\u015far who launched a justice watch 675 days ago. 
Turkey summoned Denmark’s Ambassador to Ankara Danny Annan over the permission of burning the Quran in Copenhagen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 26.01.2023<\/strong>
In the lawsuit filed against Osman \u015eiban, who was thrown from a helicopter in Van, on the allegation of “being a member of a terrorist organization”, a prison sentence of up to 15 years was demanded.\u00a0
The 3rd hearing of the trial in which human rights defenders Dr. H\u00fcseyin Yavi\u00e7 and Sevim \u00c7i\u00e7ek face \u201cdefying the Law no. 2911\u201d charge was held in Van. The court decided to send the case file to the prosecutor so that he can prepare his final opinion. Trial adjourned until April.\u00a0
The 4th hearing of the trial in which 8 HDP MPs face multiple charges was held in Silvan. The court accepted the excuses submitted by the defense lawyers and decided to wait for the case file to be completed. Trial adjourned until May.\u00a0
Mafia boss Sedat Peker\u2019s press advisor arrested again a day after a court decided to release him.\u00a0
Family and Social Services Minister Derya Yan\u0131k has stated that \u201cAbout 70-75 percent of the causes of the violence against women are alcoholism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 25.01.2023<\/strong>
President Erdo\u011fan cancelled visit to Berlin scheduled for 27 January. Reportedly, a consensus could not be reached during talks between Scholz’s Foreign Policy Adviser Jens Pl\u00f6tner and Erdo\u011fan’s presidential spokesperson \u0130brahim Kal\u0131n on the content and timing of the visit.\u00a0
An investigation was launched against Osman Ak\u0131n, the Editor-in-Chief of Yeni Ya\u015fam Newspaper, based on the news published in the newspaper.
The second hearing of the retrial in which journalist Ay\u015feg\u00fcl Do\u011fan faces \u201cmembership in an armed terrorist organization\u201d charge on the grounds of her journalistic activities was held in Diyarbak\u0131r. The court decided to continue the international travel ban and decided to wait for the return of the writ issued for the statement of the witness to be taken. Trial adjourned until March.\u00a0
Three more suspects have been taken into custody in the investigation into the killing of Sinan Ate\u015f, a former leader of the Grey Wolves.\u00a0
Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the ambassador Joep Wijnands after Europeans Against the Islamization of the West leader Edwin Wagensveld tore up a Qur’an in front of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands.\u00a0
President Erdo\u011fan has issued a presidential decree postponing Schneider Electric workers\u2019 strike for 60 days. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s decree ruled that the strike would threaten national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 24.01.2023<\/strong>
President Erdo\u011fan has said that he might use his constitutional authority to call early elections.\u00a0
The HDP, whose treasury accounts have been blocked, is launching the “Our treasure is our people” campaign upon the intense demand of its supporters.
Ten of the 12 people who were detained in the raid on their house in Bismil were arrested on charges of “being a member in a terrorist organization”.
L\u00fctfiye Kelek\u00e7iler, who is in Patnos Type L Closed Women’s Prison, stated that they were subjected to ill-treatment and psychological pressure, and when they reacted, they were threatened with being transferred to another city.\u00a0
The 5th hearing of the trial in which journalist Deniz Y\u00fccel faces \u201cdegrading the Turkish Nation\u201d and \u201cinsulting the president\u201d charges was held in \u0130stanbul. The court\u2019s decided to wait for the return of the rogatory letters so that Y\u00fccel\u2019s statement can be taken. Trial adjourned until.\u00a0
A fire broke out in the lodging of Surp P\u0131rgi\u00e7 Catholic Church in Istanbul last night. Two people were killed and another two were hospitalized.\u00a0
Reporter Yaz\u0131c\u0131o\u011flu was pushed away by bodyguards and party members after asking MHP leader a question about the murder of the former Grey Wolves leader in the parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tu<\/strong>rkey Today – 23.01.2023<\/strong>
On Wednesday, the\u00a0Constitutional Court will discuss the request by HDP to postpone all procedures related to the closure of the party until after the elections.\u00a0
New commission established by the Table of Six will study the alternatives in order to win the parliamentary majority required to amend the Constitution in the Parliament in the coming elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lokman Aslan, detained in Elazig Prison, stated in a phone call with his family that the guards beat 15 prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 16 – 22.01.2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 22.01.2023<\/strong>
The Ministry of Interior announced that it has launched a new military operation in Diyarbak\u0131r’s Lice district with the participation of 645 soldiers and village guards. 
G\u0131yasettin Sevmi\u015f, a seriously ill prisoner in Van High Security Prison, is held in prison despite a report that he can’t stay there. 
Continuing their justice watch on day 685, the \u015eenya\u015far family condemned the rejection of HDP’s Research Proposal regarding the massacre in Suru\u00e7 State Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 21.01.2023<\/strong>
JINNEWS reporter Derya Ren was given a 3-day solitary sentence for refusing to be striped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been stated that the prisoner Abidin \u0130nci in Patnos prison, who has many diseases, is given the injection once every 6 months, which should be used once a month. 
12-year-old Ehmed Salim who was injured in an armed Turkish drone attack on a vehicle in Northern Syria few days ago has lost his life in a hospital in Qamishlo. 
A prosecutor has demanded up to 4 years in prison as well as a political ban for main opposition CHP politician Eren Erdem over a tweet he posted regarding President Erdo\u011fan. 
Former deputy prime minister B\u00fclent Ar\u0131n\u00e7 has slammed the conviction of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, saying that it will only increase his popularity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 20.01.2023<\/strong>
The Constitutional Court ruled on the application of Ali Ocak and Sebla Arcan who were battered during the police’s intervention to the 704th Week gathering of the Saturday Mothers\/People. The court found that Arcan was subjected to torture and ruled for Article 17 violation. The Court found Ali Ocak’s complaint for maltreatment inadmissible on the grounds that Ocak did not suffer from the force exercised by the police. 
Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was commemorated on Jan. 19 on the 16th anniversary of his murder. A large crowd attended a ceremony held outside his former office in Istanbul, where the journalist was gunned down.
Istanbul police detained ten members of Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) while they were making a press statement on the occasion of a solidarity hunger strike for political prisoners. 
The appointed rector of the Middle East Technical University has suspended the activities of 17 student clubs over a protest against a “defense industry summit” organized by the Defense Industry Club which is affiliated the Youth Union of Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 19.01.2023<\/strong>
Bahar Karaka\u015f Ulu\u011f, the dismissed HDP city council member in Diyarbak\u0131r, was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison. The court decided to deprive Ulu\u011f of custody of his children.
The protest of HDP MPs in front of the Justice Ministry against the isolation imposed on PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan continues on day 21. 
The first hearing of the trial in which JinNews editor Ni\u015fmiye G\u00fcler faces \u201cmaking propaganda for a terrorist organization\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Reasoning that cited social media posts do not contain statements which praise or legitimize the methods of the terrorist organization in question, the court ruled to acquit the journalist.
“Turkey’s presence on our borders increased, is more concrete, and in a way that is unacceptable,” Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid stated in an interview with news portal Rudaw, while attending the ongoing World Economic Forum in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 18.01.2023<\/strong>
President Erdo\u011fan has implied that the elections will be brought forward to May 14, rather than June 18 as scheduled.
The court released one suspect charged with helping the gunman flee Ankara in the Sinan Ate\u015f murder case following the request of a newly appointed prosecutor.
Alparslan \u00c7elik who allegedly shot a fighter pilot from Russia in Syria, is seemingly often-seen guest at the MHP’s office. The authorities have been investigating but “could not find” him. 
Ankara football team Gen\u00e7lerbirli\u011fi, playing in Turkey’s second league, gave the Sweden-born 24-year-old Rodin Cin Deprem yesterday a contract for one and a half years. Today the contract was revoked. The attacker previously played at Dalkurd, a cloub founded by Kurds.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 17.01.2023<\/strong>
The lawyers of PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan have made a new application to the CPT for their clients, who have not been heard from for more than 21 months, and demanded the release of the report on his last visit to \u0130mral\u0131.
The Diyarbak\u0131r 7th High Criminal Court upholds non-punishment of police officer Yakup \u015eenocak accused of killing Kemal Kurkut during Newroz celebrations in 2017. 
MHP chair Devlet Bah\u00e7eli called for the election to be held in May which is normally scheduled to be held in June.
The second hearing of the trial in which journalists Canan Co\u015fkun and Bar\u0131\u015f Pehlivan face \u201cidentifying public officials on anti-terrorism duties as targets\u201d was held in \u0130stanbul. The court decided to send the case file to the prosecutor after the written statements are submitted to the file so that the prosecutor can prepare his final opinion. Trial adjourned until May. 
The fourth hearing of the trial in which journalist Baransel A\u011fca faces \u201cinciting the public to hatred and hostility or degrading\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. A\u011fca who lives abroad and his lawyer whose excuse was accepted by the court did not attend today’s hearing. The trial is adjourned to a later date. 
The names given by the imprisoned MA journalists for the visit are rejected by the Ankara Police on the claim that the visits will have an “organizational nature”. 
Erdo\u011fan targeted LGBTI+ groups while talking about the constitutional amendment that AKP is preparing to \u201cprotect families.\u201d \u201cWe want to prevent the virus of heresy, which is against human nature, from poisoning our nation’s existence,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 16.01.2023<\/strong>
HDP Co-Chair Mithat Sancar stated that they applied to the Constitutional Court regarding the closure case and said that the decision should be left until after the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government-linked paramilitary company SADAT has posted an advertisement with armed and masked persons on TV100 during the interview with CHP chair Kemal K\u0131\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu.
HDP MP Tayip Temel’s proposal regarding the investigation of human bones found in Zilan Creek was found to be “rude and hurtful” and not processed.
Hunger strike of Kurdish political prisoner Metin Uyar in Espiye prison entered day 40.
A Swedish prosecutor has said there would be no formal investigation into a demonstration in Stockholm in which a puppet of President Erdo\u011fan was hung from its feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 9 – 15 January 2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 15.01.2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hunger strike launched against violations of rights in \u015eakran Women’s Prison is on its 14th day. Lawyer Serhat Arl\u0131 said that the conditions in prisons deteriorated because the democratic public and human rights defenders turned a blind eye on prisons.
Turkey continues to attack villages in northern Syria. Starting late Friday afternoon, hundreds of shells were fired at populated areas in the cantons of Shehba, Afrin and Koban\u00ea. 
With a rally under the slogan “Let’s end war, poverty and oppression – Let’s change together” and tens of thousands of supporters, the election campaign of the Alliance for Labour and Freedom was launched in Istanbul.
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached day 678. The family said: “We will bring the justice that is suspended for now, together. We will be in Malatya for justice on January 17.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 14.01.2023 <\/strong>
MA Editor-in-Chief Diren Yurtsever stated that the cameras installed in the courtyard see inside of the wards, and that their objection to this was responded as, “No one is watching you.”
The Council of State overturned the rejection decision in the compensation case filed for the death of 14-year-old Cihat Morg\u00fcl, who was murdered during the curfew in Sur and was declared a “being member of a terrorist organization”. 
It was learned that Anadolu University Faculty of Law lecturer Assoc. Dr. B\u00fclent Y\u00fccel was suspended from the university for 3 months for asking questions to his students in the exam pointing to the closure case against HDP and the Presidential Government System.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said talks with Turkey should be based on the aims of ending “the occupation” of Syrian land and halting support for what he called “terrorism,”.
President Erdo\u011fan’s spokesperson, \u0130brahim Kal\u0131n, has said that Turkey is running out of time to ratify NATO membership bids by Sweden and Finland as “the parliament will go into recess some time before the elections.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 13.01.2023 <\/strong>
The body of HPG member Ramazan G\u00fc\u00e7l\u00fc, who lost his life in the countryside of Nusaybin, was laid to rest in his hometown Silopi after 4 months.
Stating that the “new circular” issued by the Ministry of Justice for ill prisoners is not a solution, \u0130HD Istanbul Branch President G\u00fclseren Yoleri said that deaths in prisons should now be discussed as “murder”
Journalist Sezgin Kartal, who was detained on January 10, was arrested on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”.
It was stated that Turkish Armed Forces opened fire on the people in the Bradost Region of the Federated Kurdistan Region and 2 children were injured.
Prosecutors have drafted another indictment against Istanbul Mayor \u0130mamo\u011flu over the alleged charge of \u201cbid-rigging\u201d for a 2015-dated tender upon the complaint of the Interior Ministry. 
Foreign Ministry has summoned Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrstrom over a demonstration in Stockholm in which a puppet of President Erdo\u011fan was hung from its feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 12.01.2023 <\/strong>
PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan has been given a 3-month family visit ban. While “disciplinary punishment” was given as the reason for the ban, the lawyers stated that they would apply to the Constitutional Court. 
The Court of Appeal upheld the 1 year, 6 months and 22 days prison sentence  given to journalist Abdurrahman G\u00f6k, who photographed the murder of Kemal Kurkut. Kurkut was shot by the police during the Newroz celebrations in Diyarbak\u0131r in 2017. 
The Ankara 26th High Criminal Court which accepted the indictment in which documentary filmmaker #SibelTekin was charged with “membership in a terrorist organization” but in which “the organization” was not specified ordered further investigation to be conducted by the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bekir Bozda\u011f, the Ministry of Justice reflected the intention of the government to ban the social media posts of former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta\u015f. Referring to this issue as “an important one,” he said in a press conference that “they were working on this issue.” 
Israeli President Isaac Herzog received Ankara’s new ambassador \u015eakir \u00d6zkan Torunlar and invited his Turkish counterpart Erdo\u011fan to visit the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 11.01.2023<\/strong>
Turkey’s top administrative court has concluded that the authorities did not commit a “fault of service” that led to the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, which killed 103 people and injured over 500 others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The justification of the request by Bekir \u015eahin, Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation for the suspension of the election funds to HDP was revealed. \u015eahin argued that HDP had “confined itself only with a statement saying that they are sorry” for the explosion on \u0130stiklal Avenue and that the party “did not denounce” the attack on the police lodge in Mersin.
76 institutions and 2 thousand 393 names signed the campaign launched by non-governmental organizations against HDP’s deprivation of Treasury aid. 
The Turkish Armed Forces commanders applauded President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s remarks targeting main opposition CHP leader K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 10.01.2023<\/strong>
The 1st hearing of the lawsuit in which the prosecutor requests the dismissal of the Turkish Medical Association Central Council President \u015eebnem Korur Fincanc\u0131 & Central Council members was held in Ankara. The judge decided to send the case file to an upper court so that the requests for recusation can be evaluated. Trial adjourned until February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Justice Watch, initiated by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), demanding that PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan meet with his lawyers, continues on its 14th day. 
Journalist Sezgin Kartal was detained in a police raid on his house early this morning. 
The 2nd hearing of the trial in which journalist and author Ender \u0130mrek faces \u201cinsulting the president\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Reasoning that the elements of the offense the journalist has been charged with did not occur, the judge ruled to acquit \u0130mrek. 
The 3rd hearing of the trial in which 40 people, including journalists Muhammed Enes Sezgin, Sena Dolar and Kardelen Yo\u011fungan face \u201cdefying the Law no 2911\u201d charge was held in B\u00fcy\u00fck\u00e7ekmece. Reasoning that the elements of the offense the defendants have been charged with did not occur, the judge ruled to acquit all the defendants. 
An Istanbul court ruled that police used “disproportionate force” against AFP photojournalist B\u00fclent K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 during the Pride March in Istanbul in 2021. The court ordered K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 to be paid 30,095 liras in compensation.
Foreign Minister \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu has condemned the invasion of government buildings by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, saying that elections should be respected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 09.01.2023<\/strong>
HDP parliamentary group deputy chair Saruhan Olu\u00e7 said that they are open to joining the elections with a joint presidential candidate if not excluded from the talks of the Table of Six. 
The criminal complaint of women journalists who were subjected to strip search in Sincan Women’s Prison was concluded with non-prosecution on the claim that “There is no element of crime”.
Attorney Sedat D\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnmez, who was battered and detained by the police while returning from Mir Perwer’s funeral, said that in the documents at the police station, Perwer was listed as “member of an organization” and those who attended the funeral were written as “supporters of the organization”.
No response has been given to the lawyers’ application to the prosecutor’s office for the bones found in Zilan Stream to be collected and examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prison sentence for the fashion designer and celebrity Barbaros \u015eansal due to his social media posts for “insulting the President” with a Gollum photo was overturned based on “repeated trials with the same charges”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Today – 08.01.2023<\/strong>
HDP Executive Lawyer Sedat D\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnmez was beaten at a police check point, returning home from the funeral ceremony of M\u00eer Perwer. 
While the Turkish military positions on the border of Northern and Eastern Syria were strengthened, preparations for the relocation of a police station began. New watchtowers are being built behind the minefields.
\u0130HD Co-Chair Eren Keskin said regarding the attack against Kurds in Paris, “If the first murder had been solved, the second Paris Massacre would not have happened.” 
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached 671. 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.
Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson has said Stockholm is confident that Turkey will approve its application to join the NATO military alliance, but cannot fulfil all the conditions Ankara has set for its support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 07.01.2023<\/strong>
Speaking at the Kars congress of HDP, Co-Chair Pervin Buldan said: “We will go to the elections with our own candidates and we will announce our presidential candidate in the near future.”
The Table of Six, an alliance of six opposition parties, has announced that they will start discussing who will be running for the presidency for the upcoming elections against Erdo\u011fan. 
Fifteen bar associations have released a joint statement, deeming the Constitutional Court\u2019s ruling to freeze the HDP’s bank account \u201cunconstitutional.\u201d
Police opened fire on a minibus on the move from \u00d6zalp district to Van province. According to reports, 20 refugees were travelling in the minibus which came under fire after taking the wrong way at a police checkpoint.
Yesterday a ten-year-old child was injured in a Turkish drone attack on a village near Ain Issa in Northern Syria. 
The prosecutor requests imprisonment for documentarist Sibel Tekin for \u2018membership in a terrorist organization\u2019 but the organization is not specified. The prosecutor also claims that Tekin’s work as a documentarist is a \u2018camouflage\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 06.01.2023<\/strong>
The 8th hearing of the trial in which the imprisoned former Co-Chair of the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party Selahattin Demirta\u015f faces \u201cinsulting a public official\u201d charge was held in \u0130stanbul. Demirta\u015f did not attend the hearing as he had to appear at the hearing of another case brought against him. Trial adjourned until May. 
The detention period of 30 people taken into custody at the funeral of artist Mir Perwer, who was murdered in Paris on 23 December, has been extended until tomorrow. 
8 people were detained during police raids in Mersin on ‘preparation for action’ charges. 
Gizem Memio\u011flu, former head of the MHP women’s branch in the Ta\u015fk\u00f6pr\u00fc district of Kastamonu was found dead at home yesterday. Her death comes a week after the assassination of a former Grey Wolves leader.
Vahyettin Sar\u0131 has been in prison for 25 years. He was deported from Patnos to Ankara. Sar\u0131, who was kept in a solitary cell, was not even given hot water for a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 05.01.2023<\/strong>
An appeals court has upheld Prof. \u015eebnem Korur-Fincanc\u0131’s conviction for insulting then Prime Minister Erdo\u011fan in 2013. The case was filed because of a tweet Korur-Fincanc\u0131 posted during the 2013 Gezi Park protests against the Erdo\u011fan government. 
President Erdo\u011fan has signaled for a possible early election which is normally scheduled to be held in June. “You all know the importance of 2023 elections whose date may be updated to be slightly earlier by taking into account the seasonal conditions,”
Only family members were allowed to attend the burial of Mir Perwer who was killed in the Paris attack under police and military blockade in Mu\u015f province.
Abdurrahman K\u0131z\u0131l who was also killed in the Paris attack was farewelled in Kars. The Kars Municipality run by a trustee did not provide a funeral coach. The body was carried with a truck. 
\u0130stanbul prosecutors have indicted Adem Ta\u015fkaya, a member of the Victory Party for falsely accusing Kurdish lawyer Jiyan Tosun of perpetrating the November 13 \u0130stanbul bombing, which killed six people and injured 81 others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.F., a man whose full name we were not able to learn killed the trans woman Ece E. in \u0130zmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 04.01.2023<\/strong>
In Afyonkarahisar No. 1 Type T Closed Prison, 6 prisoners started a hunger strike on January 3, against the raid on the wards and the imposition of a standing count. 
HDP MPs continue their protest in Ankara against the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan and demand an immediate visit to the prison island of Imrali.
Nearly a hundred luxury villas are rising in Newala Qesaba, where those who lost their lives in the massacres against Kurds and Armenians are buried.
Governor of Kars, where the funeral of Abdurrahman K\u0131z\u0131l who died in the Paris attack against Kurds is going to be held, announced a 7-day ban on all demonstrations. 
One of the civilian women injured in Turkey’s drone attack on a poultry farm on December 24th has now died from her injuries. The woman, Sewra Matar, was a mother of five. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 03.01.2023<\/strong>
The Administrative Courts Board of the Council of State upheld the decision rejecting the request for the cancellation of the Presidential decree for the withdrawal of Turkey from the \u0130stanbul Convention. 
The first hearing of the second case concerning the 2014 Koban\u00ee protests was held in Ankara. The 89 defendants, including 19 in prison, are charged with financing the protests. 
Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag issued a memorandum on “Proceedings on the Mitigation or Abolition of Sentences of Persons Due to Persistent Illness, Injury and My Husband” following the death of Vural Avar, who was sentenced in the February 28 trial. According to Habert\u00fcrk’s report, Minister Bozdag requested that the applications of people in this situation be accepted as an evacuation procedure due to their illness. 
Attorney Jiyan \u00d6zkaplan stated that despite their application to the prosecutor’s office, no investigation has been initiated on the human bones found in Zilan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.01.2023<\/strong>
Stating that the violations of rights in prisons jeopardize the lives of the prisoners, attorney Nedim Sar\u0131sa\u00e7 said: “The violations have reached such a level that  the prisoners has no life safety in prisons”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinan Ate\u015f, the ex-president of Grey Wolves, a far-right paramilitary organization affiliated with the MHP, was killed in Ankara on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense minister Hulusi Akar has accused Greece’s government of escalating tensions with Ankara to cover up their domestic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Haldenwang, head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which is responsible for domestic intelligence, said that tensions ahead of elections also felt in Germany. 
The Justice Watch carried out by the \u015eenya\u015far family has reached 663. The sit-in was launched in March 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 in June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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