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Turkey Weekly 26 June – 2 July 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.07.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

33 people who lost their lives in the Mad\u0131mak massacre were commemorated with a march in Sivas on 30th anniversary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP, which published a message on the 30th anniversary of the Mad\u0131mak Massacre, said: “The state and the government, which did not confront the massacre, still discriminate between peoples and beliefs today. An effective confrontation is essential for social peace and tranquility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHP MP Tanr\u0131kulu has stated that \u201cso-called\u201d opposition politicians contributed to the arrest of journalist Merdan Yanarda\u011f without explicitly mentioning any name. I a live Tele1 broadcast he said that some opposition figures engage in politics \u201cwithin the boundaries drawn by the Justice and Development Party (AKP).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.07.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan has stated that they will field mayoral candidates \u201ceverywhere, especially in metropolitan cities\u201d for the 2024 local elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday Mothers were again prevented by the police to gather at Galatasaray Square despite the Constitutional Court’s decision. Participants were handcuffed behind their backs and detained. Journalist were prevented from covering news again this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there is a suitable donor candidate for F\u0131rat Nebio\u011flu, whose two kidneys failed in prison, who fell from 63 kg to 44 kg and lives on dialysis, the application for kidney transplantation is pending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stating that they will be on the streets against the decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, members of Women’s Advocacy Network said: “It is not over for us yet and we will continue their legal struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 30.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director, writers and musicians from around the world demanded that the imprisoned Kurdish musician Nudem Durak be released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A raid was carried out on the home of the Democratic Regions Party Izmir former provincial co-chair Melis Akg\u00fcl in \u0130zmir. After a search of the house, Akg\u00fcl was taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gendarmerie battered and detained journalist Mehmet Yalman, owner of news outlet Malatya Haber24, for wanting to take photos of a train accident in Malatya\u2019s Ye\u015filyurt district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Islamist group attempted to disrupt the exhibition in the “Art Istanbul Feshane” opened by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, claiming it was promoting \u201cLGBTI+ and socialism propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 28.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An \u0130stanbul court has ruled to block access to 93 websites and Twitter accounts which published the special report of Reuters regarding a preliminary probe into President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s son Bilal Erdo\u011fan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the legal regulation in Turkey requiring 300 days to pass before women can remarry after divorce is \u201cdirectly a gender discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Bank has announced its approval of 1 billion US dollars in financing to assist Turkey in the reconstruction of rural housing and essential public services in earthquake-affected regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 27.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Merdan Yanarda\u011f, who was detained due to his remarks on TELE1 that the solitary confinement of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan is unlawful, was placed under arrest by a Judgeship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish warplanes bombed the Amediye countryside in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Mehmet Yetim, who posted footages of harassment against a 2-year-old boy, was detained in Urfa’s Siverek district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release of Nevzat \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, who has been in prison for more than 31 years, has been postponed for 3 months on the grounds of “not reading enough books” and “not using electricity sparingly”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jailed film producer and journalist \u00c7i\u011fdem Mater, who was convicted in the Gezi Park trial last year, has explained that her request to acquire tampons was denied by a male doctor who said \u201cTurkish women don\u2019t use tampons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey’s Communications Directorate has dismissed a recent Reuters report allegedly revealing bribery talks between President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan’s son and a subsidiary of an American company based in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 26.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merdan Yanarda\u011f, editor-in-chief of the TELE1 channel, has been detained in an investigation for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization”. In a TV programme he said “There is no legal basis for the isolation imposed on Abdullah \u00d6calan. It should be lifted. He cannot even meet with his family or his lawyers. How a penal execution system is this?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stating that Turkey has systematically violated the prohibition of torture, HDP Law and Human Rights Commission said: “Torture and ill-treatment practices have been moved from detention centers to the streets.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferit Orak from Bolu Type F Closed Prison has been released after his release was postponed twice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 19 – 25 June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 25.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) held its 5th Extraordinary Congress in the Ankara World Trade Center. Saliha Aydeniz and Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r were re-elected as co-chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some of the prisoners protesting the violations of rights in K\u0131r\u0131klar No. 1 Type F Prison were transferred to a different prison, an investigation was launched against some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the 31st Istanbul LGBT\u0130+ Pride Week, Istanbul Governor’s Office closed all the subway stations in Beyo\u011flu district. The police blockaded the entire Taksim Square and all the roads leading to \u0130stiklal Avenue. The riot police continue to blockade some of the participants and detained 60 people. They tried to prevent journalists from taking footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 24.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite rulings of the Constitutional Court, the police blockade in Galatasaray Square continued in the 952nd week and Saturday Mothers were prevented and detained again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meral Ak\u015fener was re-elected as the \u0130Y\u0130 Party chair during her party\u2019s convention in which she ran as the only candidate. She made a very aggressive speech attacking the party cadres and other opposition figures criticizing \u0130Y\u0130 party for the defeat in the presidential elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An official from the AKP claimed that they would be able to close all LGBTI+ associations in Turkey with the constitutional amendment proposal prepared for the “protection of the family.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music Interpreters Chamber on June 23 announced that the Turkish government lifted the ban on music past midnight which was introduced as part of the COVID-19-related measures in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 23.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three police officers arrested in the torture investigation of 14-year-old Y.D. in Diyarbak\u0131r’s Lice district have been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight of the 17 Kurdish politicians in the KCK trial in Istanbul were sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison for “being members of a terrorist organization”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Atalay, the imprisoned MP of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (T\u0130P), was elected as a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights Investigation during yesterday’s session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace Mother Hayriye T\u00fcrkekul was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for “being a member of a terrorist organization”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish authorities have banned a commemoration program planned by Alevi organizations in Istanbul\u2019s Sultangazi district to remember victims of the Sivas Massacre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Sezgin Kartal charged with “being a member of a terrorist organization” was released after 160 days of detention. JINNEWS reporter Beritan Can\u00f6zer has also been released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ankara Architects Chamber chair Tezcan Karaku\u015f Candan has not been notified about the cancellation of her service passport and found out about it as she was preparing to go to Copenhagen to attend the World Congress of Architects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erdo\u011fan’s ally and New Welfare Party\u2019s leader Fatih Erbakan has supported removing the theory of evolution from the curriculum in the schools since it makes people \u201cPKK members\u201d and \u201ccommunists\u201d because \u201cthe PKK also teaches the theory of evolution.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 22.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan applied to the Bursa prosecutor’s office for a meeting with their client. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lawsuit filed against Kurdish politician and former MP Emine Ayna on the allegation of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization”, the prosecutor demanded a penalty from 1 to 5 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously ill prisoner 84-year old Mehmet Emin \u00d6zkan was not released despite the “relegation” decision in the Lice Massacre case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was stated that political prisoners in K\u0131r\u0131klar No. 1 Type F Closed Prison set the ward in the B block on fire twice to protest their rights violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An investigation has been launched into 26 people over their press release in front of Bayrami\u00e7 District Governor\u2019s Office, protesting against the cancellation of Kazda\u011f\u0131 Ecology Festival for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Erdo\u011fan spoke at his party’s parliamentary meeting for the first time after the elections and continued his rhetoric by accusing the opposition politicians including CHP chair K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu of “being pro-LGBT.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 21.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, the Hakkari Governorate declared a ban on various public activities and events for 15 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday Mothers, whose actions in Galatasaray Square are prevented every day despite the decision of the Constitutional Court, will apply to the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurdish musician Cafer Alp, who was on trial for the songs he sang, was sentenced to prison for secret shootings considered “unlawful evidence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish Airlines has reportedly dismissed its pilot Evren Kaptan over sharing support messages for main opposition CHP leader K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu and Istanbul Mayor \u0130mamo\u011flu on his social media account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Education Ministry has dismissed a teacher and principal from duty after former Ankara Mayor Melih G\u00f6k\u00e7ek\u2019s targeting of them due to a rainbow decoration used at one of the classrooms at the report card ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish authorities have cancelled Kazda\u011f\u0131 Ecology Festival for the fourth year in a row, again citing the \u201crisk of fire.\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osman Kavala made a statement about Turkish state television TRT’s depiction of him as the main character of a black propaganda series called “Metamorfoz” and said that public resources are being used to create the perception that he is a criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 20.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AKP Spokesperson \u00d6mer \u00c7elik criticized the Constitutional Court’s decision of rejecting the request to block Treasury aid paid to the pro-Kurdish HDP and said it will “create weakness” in the fight against “terrorism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Turkish drone attack on Northern Syria Yusra Derwe\u015f, co-leader of Kamishlo Canton, her deputy Liman \u015eiwe\u015f, and driver Firat Tuma lost their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday evening a military operation was launched in Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district. Clashes were reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the start of the legislative period for newly elected parliamentarians, investigations will begin against former MPs, among them CHP chair Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, who have files prepared against them during their term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6mer Salimo\u011flu, who has been recently appointed to the presidency of Karadeniz Technical University (KT\u00dc)\u2019s Health, Culture and Sports Directorate, previously shared on social media posts that praised ISIS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 19.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Constitutional Court has rejected the Court of Cassation\u2019s request to block Treasury aid paid to HDP over not entering the 2023 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General Directorate of Security (EGM) filed a criminal complaint against Green Left Party Istanbul MP \u00d6zg\u00fcl Saki on the grounds that she made an “invader” analogy. Prior to the criminal complaint, Minister of Interior Ali Yerlikaya had made a statement and said: “I strongly condemn the HDP MP who insulted our police officers who tried to prevent an unauthorized demonstration by calling them ‘invaders’.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 people, including Social Freedom Party (TOP) Central Coordination Member Hatice G\u00f6z, were detained in house raids in Ankara and \u0130zmir. 5 people were detained in house raids in Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Twitter, mafia leader Alaattin \u00c7ak\u0131c\u0131 has celebrated Father\u2019s Day of President Erdo\u011fan and MHP chair Devlet Bah\u00e7eli. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 12 – 18 June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 18.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Erdo\u011fan has deemed CHP leader K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu \u201cdictator\u201d for not resigning from the party leadership following the election loss. Erdo\u011fan also likened the row between CHP Istanbul Mayor \u0130mamo\u011flu and K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu to \u201cthrone fights between father and son.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday Anti-LGBTI+ groups tried to attack \u0130zmir Bar Association\u2019s pride month breakfast while the police did not intervene. At the same time, the anti-LGBTI+ platform organized a press statement full of hate speech at the Culture Ministry\u2019s museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AKP-led Denizli municipality cancels concerts of two singers over their support for LGBTI+s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 17.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police raided HDP \u015ei\u015fli District Office in \u0130stanbul at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Sinan Ayg\u00fcl, who has been writing about the corruption and land sales of the municipality for a while, was attacked by the bodyguards of the AKP’s Tatvan Municipality Mayor Emin Geylani. Ayg\u00fcl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The indefinite and nonrotating hunger strike of 6 prisoners in K\u0131r\u0131kkale Type F High Security Closed Prison continues on its 6th day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police detained the Saturday Mothers at Galatasaray Square during their weekly vigil and blockaded the press release of HDP and Green Left Party MPs who came to support the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imam of a madrassa in Urfa where a 12-year-old found dead has been released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (T\u00dcS\u0130AD), Orhan Turan, on June 16 said that they expect the Parliament to return to the \u0130stanbul Convention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 16.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHP chair Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu has dismissed all of his advisors that he had appointed prior to June 4, the party announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish warplanes bombed the countryside of Amediye in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

G\u00f6kay Ba\u015fcan, an editor for the daily BirG\u00fcn, has been sentenced to 23 months and 10 days in prison over allegations of insulting President Erdo\u011fan and a member of the Court of Cassation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An investigation has been launched on the news of MA’s “Garrison Commander arrested for sexual abuse of 15 soldiers”, whose access was blocked, upon the complaint of the commander mentioned in the news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former HDP Dersim Provincial Co-Chair H\u0131d\u0131r \u00c7i\u00e7ek was detained as a result of the raid on his house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two police officers in Turkey have been dismissed from duty after pulling the car of then AKP MP Zeynep G\u00fcl Y\u0131lmaz during a traffic stop back in 2021. In the incident, Y\u0131lmaz was seen insulting the police officers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 15.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth meeting of the Permanent Joint Mechanism where delegations of Turkey, Finland, Sweden, and NATO participated was held in Ankara yesterday. “We will not allow Sweden [to join NATO] on July 11,” Erdo\u011fan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has launched an investigation into judge Ahmet \u00c7akmak over his objection to Erdo\u011fan’s third-time presidential candidacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 regions in \u015e\u0131rmak and its districts were declared “security” zones for 15 days by the Governor’s Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 prisoners in K\u0131r\u0131kkale Type F Prison started an indefinite nonrotating hunger strike against rights violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remzi Bayram, who is being held in K\u0131r\u015fehir Type S Covered Prison, said that his ward was raided and some of his belongings were confiscated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diyanet-Sen\u2019s Amasya Merzifon district head H\u00fcseyin Kay\u0131kc\u0131 has targeted graduation ceremonies, saying that they have been evoking \u201cerotism\u201d with dances and \u201cclothes that trample on our religious and national values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eski\u015fehir Governor’s Office banned all outdoor activities of the LGBTI+ community within the province for a month on the grounds of protecting “public morality.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bursa Metropolitan Municipality led by AKP cancels singer Melike \u015eahin’s concert after her remarks on violence against women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 14.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the ANHA, a Turkish drone targeted the military points of the Damascus government in Til Rifet district. The number of soldiers who lost their lives in the attack increased to 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 people, including members and administrators of the Green Left Party, were detained in house raids in Tekirda\u011f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ill prisoner Sinan Karer, imprisoned in Erzurum, has not been allowed to meet with his family for about 6 months due to the 16-month communication penalty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey Nikolaus Meyer Landrut stated that Turkish visa holders are more likely to seek asylum in recent years, and they have seen Turkish Erasmus students applying for asylum when their visa expires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new indictment has been prepared against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu following a report filed by the Interior Ministry. The prosecutors accuse him of \u201cusing fraud in tender\u201d during his reign as Beylikd\u00fcz\u00fc mayor and ask from three to seven years in prison for the politician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 13.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP Party Council member Do\u011fan Erba\u015f, who has a final sentence of 12 years in prison, was detained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Turkish authorities had violated the rights of former HDP MP Osman Baydemir by imposing a penalty on him for using the term \u201cKurdistan\u201d during a speech in parliament in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many houses were raided in Bitlis early in the morning. HDP Bitlis Provincial Co-chair Berivan Birlik and Green Left Party Provincial Director Mahmut Arukba\u011f were detained in the raids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socialist Re-Establishment Party (SYKP) Mersin Provincial Co-Chair G\u00fclten Kotano\u011flu was detained in a raid on her house early in the morning on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police prevented LGBTI+ students from \u0130zmir Demokrasi University from organizing a pride month picnic and temporarily detained two of them who attended the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 12.06.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Turkey’s artillery bombardment in northern Syria hit a Russian military vehicle, killing one soldier and wounding a few others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A motorcycle was targeted by a Turkish drone on the Koban\u00ea-Aleppo road. There are people injured in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dismissed Diyarbakir Municipality Co-Mayor Sel\u00e7uk M\u0131zrakl\u0131 whose sentence to 9 years in prison was quashed by the 3rd Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court was not released in the trial in which he was retried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The acquittal of HDP politicians on trial for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” in Bursa was overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police raided many houses in Mu\u015f early in the morning. At least 18 people were detained. 12 people, including HDP local district co-chair Zarife Borak as well as district administrator Emrah Yacan, were detained in house raids in \u015e\u0131rnak.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To protest her being ill-treated by jail authorities, Gezi Park trial prisoner M\u00fccella Yap\u0131c\u0131, 72, has taken a decision not to go to hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of the attack on the cemevi in Ankara, the defendants’ request for arrest was denied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law Office of the Oppressed member lawyer G\u00fclhan Kaya, who has been detained for two days, has been arrested on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organization”.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Weekly 5 – 11 June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 11.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkish Defense Ministry stated that two soldiers lost their lives in the military operation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Turkish drone attack on a vehicle in Northern Syria 3 fighters of People’s Defense Units died and two were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mesopotamia Agency journalist F\u0131rat Can Arslan, who was taken into custody on 7 June, was released on condition of “judicial control”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 10.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of those arrested in \u015e\u0131rnak’s Cizre district has risen to 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the ruling of the Constitutional Court Saturday Mothers were again prevented by the police to gather at Galatasaray Square. At least 20 people were detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Ahmet Kanbal, who shared on social media about the lost ballot box in Mard\u00een, was prosecuted for “publicly spreading misleading information”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight members of TIP who protested the protocol for imams to give lectures in schools were detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Middle East Technical University (ODT\u00dc) rectorate on June 9 invited hundreds of police to the university campus over the LGBTI+ pride march organized by the students. The police raided the university buildings and detained 15 students on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 09.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abu Hatem Shaqra, one of the commanders of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, known for many rights violations, and condemned by the international society for committing “war crimes,” has studied and now graduated from the Mardin Artuklu University in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP’s Patnos Municipality Co-Mayors M\u00fc\u015ferref Ge\u00e7er and Emrah K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 were detained. The Human Resources Manager of the municipality was also detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Families of PKK Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan and other prisoners in Imrali prison applied to the Bursa prosecutor’s office for a meeting with their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Security Council discusses repatriating Syrian refugees. In the council’s inaugural meeting following Erdo\u011fan’s win, they emphasized Syrian refugees’ safe and dignified return to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rector\u2019s office of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODT\u00dc) has sent an e-mail to students saying that it did not allow the annual LGBTI annual pride march scheduled for June 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 08.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HDP Youth Council member Dilan Karako\u00e7 was detained in a raid on a house in \u0130zmir’s Menemen district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emine \u015eenya\u015far, who was on sit-in in front of the Urfa Courthouse, was fined 8 thousand TL for allegedly “insulting” AKP’s \u0130brahim Halil Y\u0131ld\u0131z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0130HD Headquarters stated that the death of 5-year-old Erdem A\u015fkan as a result of the collision of the vehicle used by the expert sergeant in Gever was not an accident but a murder and demanded that the perpetrators be prosecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ill prisoner Serhat Karsu in Dumlu High Security Prison No. 1 said that his treatment was blocked and the prison doctor told him, “I am not sending you anywhere. If you die, you will die here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Minister Y\u0131lmaz Tun\u00e7 has said that T\u0130P lawmaker MP Can Atalay\u2019s conviction lies outside the scope of parliamentary immunity and the decision to release him or not was in the Court of Cassation\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Istanbul’s Kad\u0131k\u00f6y District Governor\u2019s Office on June 7 banned the screening of an LGBTI+ themed movie on the grounds that it is against the \u201cconstitutional rule,\u201d and police detained those who came to the screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 07.06.2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 people were detained in house raids in \u015e\u0131rnak’s Cizre district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the website of the Municipality of Artem\u00eat, it was written that the cemeteries belonging to Armenians were destroyed by building TOK\u0130 houses and roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the investigation launched in K\u0131r\u015fehir, Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reporter F\u0131rat Can Arslan was detained in a raid on his house in Ankara on the grounds of “terrorist propaganda”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOX TV and Halk TV have been penalized by the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RT\u00dcK) due to comments made during their elections coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist \u0130dris Y\u0131lmaz, who was attacked while trying to report on the coastal road project of the municipality under the management of the trustee, was sentenced to 4 months and 15 days in prison for “deliberate injury” by using the camera as a weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Istanbul court has sentenced four Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University students each to 10 months in prison on allegations of throwing plastic bottles with paint inside in front of the rectorate building during a protest in November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T\u00dcGVA, an Islamist foundation which has President Erdo\u011fan’s son Bilal Erdo\u011fan on its advisory board, will use the spaces of 238 schools across Istanbul to hold trainings for students. Among the trainings to be held are also Quran courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former HDP MP and former mayor of Dersim, Edibe \u015eahin, has been released from prison. The Kurdish politician was arrested at the end of 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the village of Oyal\u0131 in \u015e\u0131rnak’s \u0130dil district, the inhabitants were attacked by the military and police, and their electricity is to be cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey bombed mountains in the Amediye district of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing their struggle for justice, tagged the new Minister of Justice Y\u0131lmaz Tun\u00e7 on their Twitter account,the \u015eenya\u015far family said: “If he is going to bring justice to the country, he should start from Urfa.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The case of Yusuf Ziya G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015fel, the founder of the Hiranur Foundation, who married his 6-year-old daughter and exposed her to rape for years has been postponed to July 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was stated that a Turkish drone attacked two people on motorcycles in the Sharbajer region of Sulaymaniyah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, in a television interview HDP’s co-chairs, Mithat Sancar and Pervin Buldan, announced that they will step down in an upcoming congress after conceding disappointing results in the recent dual elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University\u2019s trustee management has announced that the university will not hold a collective graduation ceremony this year, as has been the case for 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey Today – 03.06.2023
Yesterday, in Istanbul, the Saturday Mothers’ vigil was once again violently prevented and many were taken into custody by the police.
\u0130Y\u0130 Party executives have held a meeting during which they reportedly said that the opposition Nation Alliance was the reason why their party performed worse than expectations in the elections on May 14.
Students graduating from Istanbul\u2019s prestigious Ca\u011falo\u011flu Anatolian High School on June 2 protested against the school principal who defended child abuse in the past by turning their backs during his speech in the graduation ceremony.
\u0130zmir Provincial Directorate of Education assigned religious officials to one-third of the schools in the province after a protocol was signed with the Religious Affairs Directorate\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 02.06.2023
It was stated that a clash broke out between the soldiers who went into operation in Lice district and HPG members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish warplanes bombarded the Amediye countryside in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
The police attack \u0130zmir Bar Association with tear gas over LGBTI+ protest. 
Diyarbak\u0131r’s Yeni\u015fehir Municipality trustee put 3 plots of land in D\u00f6kmeta\u015f neighborhood up for sale for 79 million 873 TL.
Ahmet \u00d6zkan, accompanying his ill prisoner father, Mehmet Emin \u00d6zkan, who was released the other day, stated that his father is confined to a wheelchair. 
State-run Anadolu Agency files lawsuit against \u0130mamo\u011flu over manipulation accusations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 01.06.2023
14-year old Emirhan Gelgir, who was wounded by gunfire during the celebrations after the presidential run-off elections in Urfa, lost his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u015e\u0131rnak Governor’s Office declared that 14 regions in the rural areas have been declared “special security zones”. 
The 28th term legislative year of the Parliament will begin with the oath-taking ceremony to be held tomorrow.
6 members of HDP \u0130zmir Youth Council were detained. 
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General announced that he will be visiting Ankara soon in order to discuss Sweden’s NATO membership. 
A verdict was given this morning in the trial where Attorney Efkan Bola\u00e7 was accused of “insulting the president”over two social media posts.The judge ruled that the posts were not of an insulting nature and acquitted Bola\u00e7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 31.05.2023
CHP vice chair Seyit Torun has announced that CHP mayors were not accepted into the management of the Union of Municipalities of Turkey (TBB).
A new ban on visits by his family and lawyers has been imposed on PKK leader Abdullah \u00d6calan. 
On the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, the police have cordoned off the vicinity of the park in Taksim Square, Istanbul.
CHP chair Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu will have his immunity lifted with the start of the new parliamentary term, as he is no longer a MP. If prosecutors approve one of the 40 criminal complaints filed against him, he will appear before the court. 
\u0130stanbul MHP MP Feti Y\u0131ld\u0131z invites prosecutors to start criminal cases against K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu. 
Imprisoned Kurdish journalist Zeynel Bulut was forced to speak in Turkish by soldiers while receiving medical treatment due to his illness.
Istanbul Municipal Council (\u0130BB)’s members from AKP battered Medyascope journalist Ali Macit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 30.05.2023
HDP Party Council member \u0130lker Murat Ayd\u0131n who was accused of “being a member of a terrorist organization” was arrested on the grounds of witness statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hakkari Bar Association requested an effective investigation into the police violence in Y\u00fcksekova. 
Radio and Television Supreme Council (RT\u00dcK) announced that an investigation was launched against opposition channels Fox TV, TELE1, Halk TV, KRT, TV 5, Flash Haber, and Szc TV for their election night broadcasts on May 28.
In his retrial, Fethi G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015f, the former chair of the Diyarbak\u0131r Bar Association, has been sentenced to the same penalty after his prison sentence (7,5 years) was previously overturned. 
Journalist Hakk\u0131 Boltan was detained yesterday when he went to the Police Department to give a statement as part of a “terror” investigation in Diyarbak\u0131r. Today he was released on juridical control measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey Today – 29.05.2023
Standing on the balcony in Be\u015ftepe, Erdo\u011fan continued his intervention in the judiciary over Selahattin Demirta\u015f and said: “It is not possible for him to get out of prison under our rule.” During Erdo\u011fan\u2019s speech his supporters chanted “death penalty” for Demirta\u015f. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens of young people were detained in house raids in Hakkari’s Y\u00fcksekova district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother of Mustafa Bor, detained in Y\u00fcksekova, said that her son locked in a room at home and subjected to police violence for two hours. She added that the police said “We came to kill your son.” 
\u0130Y\u0130 Party member Erhan Kurt has been killed in a knife attack in Ordu during the election celebrations.
Berkant Doran and S\u00fcleyman Yeral, who were observers at Demirk\u00f6pr\u00fc Muhtar Abdurrahman \u00c7etiner Primary School in Hatay’s Antakya district, objected to the irregularities of entering the voting cabinet together and voting without identification. Both were beaten by other observers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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