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Turkey Weekly 22 – 27 May 2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 27.05.2023<\/strong>
Oktay D\u00f6nmez, a bomb disposal expert in the Turkish Armed Forces, who murdered lawyer Dilara Y\u0131ld\u0131z in Tuzla, was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment and 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Saturday Mothers, who wanted to gather at Galatasaray Square were once again detained by the police despite the Constitutional Court’s decision.  
Ferit Ak, who was arrested 4 years ago in the P\u00eersus (Suru\u00e7) district of Riha(Urfa) and sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison for “being a member of a terrorist organization”, requested a referral to a prison close to his family. His request has not been answered for 4 years. 
After the main opposition\u2019s presidential candidate K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu sent a text message to citizens regarding credit card debts, the Information and Communications Technologies Authority informed the GSM operators and banned propaganda by text messages.
Starting from 6 p.m. today, the propaganda prohibition has come into effect for the second round of presidential election scheduled to take place tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 26.05.2023<\/strong>
On the day Vezir Co\u015fkun, new elected MP for Hakkari, got his certificate, the Rize Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation against him on charges of “providing financial support to a terrorist organization.”
The Kocaeli Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has decided to postpone the execution of a 10-year prison sentence for Kurdish politician Aysel Tu\u011fluk, diagnosed with dementia, for one year citing “health reasons.”
Diyarbak\u0131r’s Ergani Municipality Council member Ceylan Aslan was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for the press statements she participated in.
Former Mayor of Diyarbak\u0131r Feridun \u00c7elik was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization” on the grounds of his activities within the Democratic Society Congress.\u00a0
At least 39 people were detained in house raids in Bing\u00f6l.\u00a0
Saim Ad\u0131g\u00fczel, brother of Hakan Ad\u0131g\u00fczel, who is imprisoned in Sincan High Security Prison, stated that his brother, who had health problems due to prison conditions, was not treated.
After the imprisoned Gezi Park defendant Can Atalay received his election certificate as a new MP from the Workers\u2019 Party of Turkey (T\u0130P), his lawyers applied to the top appeals court for his release. Atalay was convicted to 18 years in jail in the Gezi Park trial last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 25.05.2023<\/strong>
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Green Left (Ye\u015fil Sol) Party have announced that their support for Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu will continue in the second round of the presidential election.
While the number of voters who cast their votes abroad increased to 1 million 856 thousand 968, voting procedures at customs continue.
Dozens of people were detained in house raids before the second round of elections in Hakkari. 2 people\u00a0 were detained in police raids in Urfa’s Halfeti district.\u00a0
After far-right anti-immigrant Victory Party and HDP have declared support for Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu in the second round of presidential elections against Erdo\u011fan, AKP spokesperson \u00d6mer \u00c7elik has argued both parties \u201ccannot come together\u201d as they are \u201cat opposite ends.\u201d\u00a0
Turkey has risen to the fifth rank in the world in the Global Slavery Index and comes first in Europe and Central Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 24.05.2023<\/strong>
Democratic Regions Party Diyarbak\u0131r Provincial Co-chair Hayrettin Altun’s press statements, news about demonstrations and events were accepted as a “call for an organization” and a prison sentence of up to 15 years was demanded.
An investigation has been launched against Mesopotamia Agency’s reporter Y\u00fcsra Bat\u0131han for the posts she made on her social media account after the Mara\u015f-centered earthquakes.
3 people were detained in house raids in Batman. 15 people were detained in house raids in Mardin, Manisa and \u015e\u0131rnak.
12 musicians in \u0130zmir who participated in the opening of the election office of Green Left Party were detained on charges of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”.
In a tweet, President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s advisor Ayhan Ogan has declared millions of citizens who voted for K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu in eastern Turkey as \u201cPKK members.\u201d
Oktay Avcu was detained per the instruction of a prosecutor\u2019s office in Mersin province after he filed a criminal complaint against President Erdo\u011fan over the latter\u2019s claim that the PKK were supporting CHP leader and presidential candidate K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu with a montage video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 23.05.2023<\/strong>
As part of the Tekirda\u011f-based investigation, nearly 30 people, including HDP former provincial co-chairs and current administrators, were detained in police raids.\u00a0
13 people were detained in house raids in Mardin early in the morning.\u00a0
24 people, including journalist Delal Aky\u00fcz and HDP, DBP and \u00c7ukurova TUAY-DER executives, were detained in the investigation launched with the allegation of sharing social media and sending money to prisoners in 5 Mersin-based provinces.
Ma Music Coordinator \u015e\u00earko Kan\u00eewar was detained as part of the investigation by Diyarbak\u0131r Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.\u00a0
A drone attack was carried out by Turkey against a house in the village of Xelef in Shengal.\u00a0
After President Erdo\u011fan continued to argue that PKK executives threw support behind main opposition leader K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu with a montage video, he called Erdo\u011fan \u201cfraudulent video fabricator.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 22.05.2023<\/strong>
Sinan O\u011fan, who ran in the first round of the presidential election as the candidate of the right-wing Ancestral Alliance, has announced his support for President Erdo\u011fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu said at the meeting with the personnel of the General Directorate of Security and their families in Istanbul, \u201cWhenever the lawyers of the PKK are jailed, then there will be nothing left to see as PKK in Turkey. They are the target.”
Diyarbak\u0131r’s Bismil Municipality Co-Mayor G\u00fcl\u015fen \u00d6zer was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison, 7 years and 6 months, on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization” twice.
19 people, including many HDP members, were detained in the operation launched in 5 cities based in Ankara on the grounds of the Newroz celebration.
5 people who were battered and taken into custody after the police seized the loudspeaker while they were performing a halay dance accompanied by Kurdish songs, were referred to the Criminal Judgeship of Peace for their arrest.
Ill prisoner Sinan Tutmaz, who is in D\u00fczce Prison, was put in a single cell even though he did not have one hand. 
A broadcasting ban was imposed for the investigation carried out on the rape and death of a 2-year-old child in Zonguldak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 15 -21 May<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 21.05.2023<\/strong>
While delivering the Friday sermon in a mosque in Istanbul, an imam named Murat G\u00fcndo\u011fdu called the congregation to \u201cprepare their weapons\u201d on the night of run-off presidential election on May 28, and added \u201cmy two guns are fully loaded.\u201d
Interior Minister Soylu has targeted Oy ve \u00d6tesi, a volunteer organization of election monitoring, claiming that their observers \u201cterrorize\u201d the vote counting and that they cannot legally monitor the ballot boxes.\u00a0
A Haber TV has censored the name and photo of presidential candidate Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu on their ballot paper example and showed him as the \u201cother candidate.\u201d\u00a0
Sinan O\u011fan who came third in the first round of the presidential election, will announce publicly on May 22 whom he will support in the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 20.05.2023<\/strong>
Voting process has started in foreign and customs offices for the second round of Presidential elections.\u00a0
A mob on May 19 attacked the CHP Women’s Branch members distributing leaflets for Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\u2019s campaign in K\u00fctahya.\u00a0
Despite Constitutional Court’s ruling, at least 10 people were detained in the police attack on the Saturday Mothers, who came together to inquire about the fate of their disappeared relatives in Galatasaray Square.\u00a0
Zekeriya Muhammed from Rojava, imprisoned in Hilvan Prison, was battered with gun butts by the soldiers in the hospital where he went for treatment.
The Feminist Solidarity for Disaster and Woman State of Soliditary Association (DAKAHDER) in the tent city set up by volunteers in quake-torn Ad\u0131yaman stated that most of the women quake victims\u2019 special needs were forgotten during the election process.
Do\u011fan Ak\u0131n, the editor-in-chief of online news outlet T24, faced accusations of insulting a public official for publishing an article about a tender won by the cousin of Turkey’s Industry and Technology Minister. Ak\u0131n was charged with a prison sentence of 1 to 2 years for this alleged offense. He was acquitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 19.05.2023<\/strong>
The provincial election council has rejected the application of the Green Left Party to renew the elections in Gaziantep after around 2,000 people were unable to vote because they had been registered as polling officials without being informed.\u00a0
It was stated that the relatives of the prisoners who went to visit K\u0131r\u0131klar Prison were forced to strip search.
Tele 1 TV’s editor-in-chief Merdan Yanarda\u011f had shared in a post the claim that a group entered from Georgia to Turkey to assassinate K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu on May 12.\u00a0
In the first press conference after the elections, opposition presidential candidate K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu once again vowed to deport refugees. He accused Erdo\u011fan of not \u201cprotecting the borders and honor of the country by bringing more than 10 million refugees.\u201d
In response to a question about election results, Turkish Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu has targeted the country\u2019s top pollster Bekir A\u011f\u0131rd\u0131r by calling him \u201cmafia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 18.05.2023<\/strong>
\u00d6mer Faruk Gergerlio\u011flu, who was elected as an MP from the Green Left Party in Kocaeli, declared that the AKP objected to his deputy, citing the prison sentence of the Constitutional Court.\u00a0
The Green Left Party Istanbul Provincial Organization objected to 236 ballot boxes in 27 districts. It has been determined that a total of 3,570 votes in the minutes with wet signatures were not registered for the Green Left Party, while thousands of extra votes were registered for the AKP and MHP.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 6th 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 Istanbul. A court issued a warrant for his arrest. A criminal complaint has been filed against the policemen who beat HDP District Co-chair Yavuz Kahraman and Green Left Party District Co-spokesperson Cemal Korkmaz in Arnavutk\u00f6y.
The 10 years and 10 months prison sentence given by the local court to Kadir \u015eeker, who caused Duran’s death while trying to save Ay\u015fe D\u0131rla, who was battered by a man named \u00d6zg\u00fcr Duran on the street in Konya, was upheld by the Supreme Court. 
While an investigation has been launched regarding the beating of \u015eeyhmus E\u015fen by the police in Bismil district, the MOBESE  (Mobile Electronic System Integration) image also confirms the violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 17.05.2023<\/strong>
Presidential Communications Directorate, controlled by Fahrettin Altun, spent 282.9 million liras in April alone.
Supreme Election Council (YSK) has shared its database of the ballot box results with the political parties.
After approximately seven months in jail, nine journalists working for Kurdish media outlets have been released from jail at the first hearing of the trial in which they are accused of terrorism charges.\u00a0
Beh\u00e7et Kaplan, a 31-year-old seriously ill\u00a0 prisoner lost his life in Bitlis prison.\u00a0
Sabah Daily Europe Representative \u0130smail Erel and Sabah Europe Daily Chief Editor Cemil Albay have been taken into custody after police raids to their houses in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 16.05.2023<\/strong>
Documents are increasingly being published on social media showing that the distribution of votes according to the protocol of the polling station does not match the receipt of votes in the system of the Supreme Election Council. The published documents are votes of the Green Left Party registered as votes for the MHP.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office has launched investigations into citizens whom it said were sharing \u201cprovocative\u201d social media posts about the election results.\u00a0
Two gendarmes have lost their lives, one gendarme officer and one village guard were injured in an armed confrontation in the Besta region of \u015e\u0131rnak in the morning, the Interior Ministry announced.\u00a0
The second round of Turkey’s presidential elections will be held on May 28.\u00a0
According to a KRI based news agency a drone attack was carried out by Turkey against \u015eengal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 15.05.2023<\/strong>
Supreme Election Council (YSK) chairperson Ahmet Yener announced Erdo\u011fan’s vote as 49.49 percent and K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu’s vote as 44.79 percent. He also said that the Presidential election is in the second round.\u00a0
Presidential candidate Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu said: \u201cDon’t fall into despair. I will stand upright. We will stand up and take this election together.”
Television channel Halk TV, newspaper S\u00f6zc\u00fc, and Cumhuriyet reported cyber attacks on their websites during election day.\u00a0\u00a0
Journalist Metin Yoksu announced that he was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in a trial where he was accused of ‘propaganda for a terrorist organization’ over photos he took while covering the funeral of those who perished in the Suru\u00e7 massacre.
Journalist Bar\u0131\u015f Pehlivan announced that he will need to go to prison for a short period of time on the grounds that a recently filed lawsuit violated his probation. The lawsuit is brought against Pehlivan because of an article in which he implicitly mentioned the Court of Cassation member \u00d6mer Faruk Ayd\u0131ner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 8 – 13 May<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 13.05.2023
The Supreme Election Council declared that the votes of Muharrem \u0130nce, who announced his withdrawal as a presidential candidate, will be valid. 
Radio and Television Supreme Council\u2019s (RT\u00dcK) member from the main opposition CHP \u0130lhan Ta\u015f\u00e7\u0131 has stated that Presidential Communication Directorate and Interior Ministry had placed “special personnel” on the state television TRT for the election night.
Turkish GSM operator Turkcell sent a text message to employees working at its headquarters in Istanbul and informed them that “technical infrastructure works” would prevent them from entering their plazas and offices on election night.
Kemal \u00d6zkiraz, owner of the Eurasia Research Company, who shared the results of the presidential election poll the previous day, was taken into custody.
President Erdo\u011fan has stated that they are ready to protect their independence and future \u201cat the expense of our lives when necessary, as on the night of July 15 (coup attempt).\u201d
A criminal investigation has been launched against TELE 1’s Chief Editor Merdan Yanarda\u011f over the suspicion of “openly disseminating information misleading the public” for having shared the claim that a group planning to assassinate Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu had come to Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 12.05.2023
President Erdo\u011fan has denied that press freedom in Turkey has been deteriorating by saying “There are not as many journalists in prisons as it has been claimed.”
Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu has said that the opposition is very excited to see President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan leaving the office and added, “We will stomp on the opposition after May 14 when Erdo\u011fan wins.”
Representative of T\u00dcGVA, a pro-government foundation, was caught distributing fake CHP leaflets in Esenler, \u0130stanbul, portraying Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu saying, “Why should LGBTI+ spoil our family structure?” and “a head scarf is only a meter of a cloth”. 
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (\u00d6HD) will be on the field with 1,600 lawyers in Sunday’s election. 
In the case of the two files that were combined in the massacre against the \u015eenya\u015far family, it was decided to continue the detention of Fad\u0131l \u015eenya\u015far and three other people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 11.05.2023
S\u00fcleyman Soylu has said that when he assumed the post of Interior Minister, he was summoned by President Erdo\u011fan and instructed to remove HDP mayors from duty. 
Homeland Party Chairperson Muharrem \u0130nce withdrew from his presidential candidacy. 
President Erdo\u011fan has warned his supporters of a possible election loss and said \u201cLet’s not have an accident on Sunday.\u201d Otherwise, Erdo\u011fan added, \u201cthe imperialists counting the days to do to us what they did to Syria.\u201d
Media watchdog RTUK published a press statement and warned against broadcasts which would “manipulate” and “mislead the public.” The media watchdog emphasized “heavy sanctions” for those who do not comply with the Supreme Election Council’s restrictions on election day.
A smiling poster of Erdo\u011fan has been hung on the only standing building across the infamous \u0130sias Hotel in the quake-hit Ad\u0131yaman province. 65 people, 25 of whom were Northern Cypriot athletes, had lost their lives at the hotel during the Februar 6 quakes.
The International Imrali Peace Delegation, which came to Istanbul, will visit many institutions on the isolation and developments in the country on May 11-12. 
While the military operation that started yesterday in the Lice district continues, 2 citizens were detained in the raids on many houses in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 10.05.2023
The Supreme Election Council rejected the request of the Interior Ministry to receive country-wide data on voters and banned the police and gendarmerie from collecting election results. 
Celal Adan, a MHP lawmaker from parliament\u2019s 27th term, has called for the closure of the Constitutional Court for not closing down the HDP.
The Turkish military has dismissed a sergeant from service over his involvement in the attack against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s rally in Erzurum. 
A military operation was launched in Diyarbak\u0131r’s Lice district. Dozens of armored vehicles and helicopters are taking part in the large-scale operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 09.05.2023
The OECD Parliamentary Network has criticized Turkey for rejecting the observers it had appointed to monitor the elections. Danish Red-Green Alliance MP Soren Sondergaard and Swedish Social Democratic MP Kadir Kasirga were not allowed to travel to Ankara.
A court has released 14 people shortly after their detention over the attack against Istanbul Mayor and VP candidate Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu under judicial control measures, whereas one suspect was released after giving testimony.
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Ay\u015fe G\u00f6kkan has filed a criminal complaint on the allegation of torture and ill-treatment while being transferred from one prison to another. 
Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu used a state-developed app on his phone to identify people by their photos. He previously faced criticism after photos of him with crime suspects circulated on social media, claiming he didn’t know them.
The application made by the Amnesty International and its then-board chair in Turkey, Prof. Dr. Levent Korkut, to the European Court of Human Rights was concluded today. The ECtHR ruled that the applicants’ “right to a fair and reasoned trial” under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and their “freedom of association” under Article 11 were violated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 08.05.2023
Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu said yesterday that the US had proposed Turkey to send the S-400 missile defense system it bought from Russia to Ukraine, but Ankara rejected this offer. 
Regarding the attack on Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu in Erzurum, Family Minister Derya Yan\u0131k said that the city has \u201csensitivities\u201d and that his \u201cflirtation\u201d with the HDP voters caused the attack.
AKP Spokesperson \u00d6mer \u00c7elik argued that \u0130mamo\u011flu was attacked because he tried to hold the rally in that square without any permission.
CHP deputy Murat Bakan has shared a message sent to him by a police officer who expressed being \u201cvery shamed\u201d about not being able to stop the attack against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s election bus in Erzurum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior Minister Soylu has accused CHP Istanbul Mayor of being the \u201cprovocateur\u201d of the latest attack. 
Bullets have been thrown inside the election office of CHP\u2019s Urfa office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 1 – 7 May 2023<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 07.05.2023<\/strong>
Ahead of the May 14 election in Turkey, there is speculation about alleged talks with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan. The Asrin Law Office considers the rumours to be manipulation and demands immediate contact with their client.
MHP chair Devlet Bah\u00e7eli has said that \u201ca sad end\u201d awaits the Nation Alliance bloc and its presidential candidate K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. Bah\u00e7eli argued that they will either receive “aggravated life sentences\u201d after the May 14 elections or \u201cbullets in their bodies.”
A women’s rally was held by the Green Left Party in Istanbul\u2019s Kad\u0131k\u00f6y district. Police detained 4 women. 
AKP Municipality in Urfa’s Halfeti district removed a Green Left Party stand on the grounds of “maintenance and repair” and set up an AKP stand instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 06.05.2023<\/strong>
The family of musician Cihan Aymaz, who was murdered after he did not sing the song “I die for my Turkey” in Kad\u0131k\u00f6y, stated that the racist attacker was “drunk” and that the murder is wanted to be covered up. 
Despite the Constitutional Court’s two separate judgments police prevented the Saturday Mothers again from going back to the Galatasaray Square to hold their 945th vigil. There are many detentions. 
Police and soldiers raided houses in the Cizre district of \u015e\u0131rnak center and some villages yesterday evening. Many people were detained. 
Police raided many houses in Dersim, Istanbul and Hatay early in the morning. The police also raided the office of Yeni Democracy Newspaper in Dersim and confiscated the newspaper archives and books in the office. 
Yusuf K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, an imam in \u0130zmir, has found himself under investigation after he refused a request from the AKP to gather people for President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s rally on April 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 05.05.2023<\/strong>
Besides AKP Diyarbak\u0131r MP Garip Ensario\u011flu, Justice Minister Bekir Bozda\u011f have also responded to the claim that the government has sent a delegation to meet PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan in prison and said, “Technical teams go there.”
Families of PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan and \u00d6mer Hayri Konar, Hamili Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m and Veysi Akta\u015f held in \u0130mral\u0131 Prison applied to the prosecutor’s office and the prison directorate for a visit. 
Stating out that 295 people were detained and 61 people were arrested in a month, HDP Law and Human Rights Commission Co-Spokesperson Nuray \u00d6zdo\u011fan said: “For the safety of the election, S\u00fcleyman Soylu should be discharged first.”
The Constitutional Court has ruled for the second time that the Beyo\u011flu District Governor’s Office violated the rights of Saturday Mothers by banning their meeting, who have been gathering in Galatasaray Square since 1995 against enforced disappearances of their relatives. 
\u015eerzan Yelbo\u011fa, one of the 5 lawyers who testified as part of the Amed-based investigation, has been arrested. The number of lawyers arrested increased to 4 together with Yelbo\u011fa. 
Two young people who protested the murder of musician Cihan Aymaz were detained by the police. Young people were tortured in the police station where they were detained. 
The Van 2nd Heavy Penal Court found journalists Ferhat \u00c7elik and \u0130dris Yayla guilty of “marking people who participated in the fight against terrorism as a target”. The two journalists have been given a prison sentence for reporting on a prosecutor who ran an investigation into a 2021 incident where two citizens were thrown out of a helicopter in Van. 
The Turkish Medical Association will be making a criminal complaint against the Youtube channel that shared a street interview where one is praising the increasing violence against doctors in the AKP period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 04.05.2023<\/strong>
Green Left Party MP candidate Kezban Konuk\u00e7u and 15 workers were battered and detained in a demonstration in front of Emlak Konut GYO by construction workers who could not receive their wages. 
A military operation was launched in \u015e\u0131rnak’s \u0130dil district. 
Mehmet Caymaz, who murdered street musician Cihan Aymaz for not playing the song “I die for Turkey”, was arrested on the charge of “deliberate killing”.
Addressing citizens during a rally held in Giresun, President Erdo\u011fan said that \u201cYou wouldn’t sacrifice your leader for onion or potato.\u201d 
Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu has targeted Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s wife Dilek \u0130mamo\u011flu for making a victory sign during the opposition\u2019s election rally in Van and linked the victory sign to the PKK.
Emircan Bozkurt and \u00d6mer K\u00f6ker, who were detained on the grounds of their social media posts in Tekirda\u011f, were arrested. 
Seven of the 23 people detained in Istanbul and Eski\u015fehir, including ESP Co-Chair \u015eahin T\u00fcm\u00fckl\u00fc, Green Left Party MP candidate M\u00fcsl\u00fcm Koyun and ETHA editor Nadiye G\u00fcrb\u00fcz, were arrested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 03.05.2023<\/strong>
In an attack on the stand of the Green Left Party in Edirne, 2 people, including a parliamentary candidate, broke their arms. 
Many people were detained in house raids in Adana’s Ceyhan and \u015e\u0131rnak’s Silopi district. 
The remains of Vakkas T\u00fcmen, who lost his life during the curfew in Nusaybin, was given to his family 7 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalists Sedat Y\u0131lmaz and Dicle M\u00fcft\u00fco\u011flu were arrested. Y\u0131lmaz condemned the decision and said: “The illegal order will be destroyed in 10 days.”
Erdo\u011fan accuses rival K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu of cooperating with PKK. He said \u201cMy nation will not hand over power to you if you\u2019re elected with PKK support\u201d.
Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu has targeted a cream advertisement with the slogan of “As natural as being close to girl to girl” and said that his ministry will have it removed from billboards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.05.2023<\/strong>
Simultaneous house raids were carried out in 15 districts and 6 cities within the scope of the investigation initiated by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office At least 32 people, including HDP and Green Left Party Youth Council members and administrators, were detained on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”. 
\u0130Y\u0130 Party chair Meral Ak\u015fener said that the government has recently sent a bureaucrat from the judiciary to \u0130mral\u0131 Island to have a meeting with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan.
CHP MP Muharrem Erkek said regarding the election security: “The Ministry of Interior has established an election tracking system parallel to the YSK.”
Presidential candidate Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has warned about a “Cambridge Analytica” type of manipulation in the upcoming presidential elections by the government. Cambridge Analytica is a consultancy firm that had supported Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign in 2016 through online voter profiling and targeting. 
In the lawsuit filed regarding the death of 18-month-old Mehmet Uytun, who was murdered with a gas canister, the prosecutor demanded that the accused soldier be punished for “involuntary manslaughter”.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozda\u011f has compared LGBTI+ individuals with thieves by saying \u201cperversions\u201d cannot be considered as a right and freedom just as \u201cstealing.\u201d
Green Left Party Kocaeli MP candidate \u00d6mer Faruk Gergerlio\u011flu filed a criminal complaint against Interior Minister S\u00fcleyman Soylu, who called the 14 May elections a “coup”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.05.2023<\/strong>
The air-supported military operation in the Omeri region of Mardin continues on its second day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All streets leading to Taksim Square and Istiklal Street, which were banned on May 1, were closed with iron barriers.
Journalist Zeynep Kuray has been violently taken into custody in Be\u015fikta\u015f while covering the police intervention to the group which wanted to reach the Taksim Square. Journalist Hazar Dost, Sultan Eylem Kele\u015f and Gencer Keten were also subjected to police violence. 
At least 38 people from groups that wanted to go out to Taksim Square have been detained. 
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Maltepe Square in Istanbul to celebrate International Workers’ Day. 
14 regions in \u015e\u0131rnak have been declared \u201ctemporary private security zones\u201d for 15 days on security reasons.
The lawyer of Sedat Y\u0131lmaz, who was battered by the police after being detained in Diyarbak\u0131r in the Ankara-based investigation, filed a criminal complaint for the suspects to be identified and punished.
After K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu\u2019s \u201cAlevi\u201d declaration, Erdo\u011fan has told the CHP leader to conceal his identity and live it privately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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