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26.12.2020


hafta

The attor­ney gen­er­al declared there was no “racism” involved in the attack against sea­son­al work­ers of Kur­dish ori­gin in Sakarya and “dis­missed all charges.”


hafta

Thanks to lit­i­ga­tion by Erdoğan against cit­i­zens he accus­es of “insults”, the hon­o­raria for his lawyer Ahmet Özel amount to 980 thou­sand Turk­ish lira (approx­i­mate­ly 4,3 million €.)


hafta

Mah­mut Alı­nak, for­mer DEP deputy (Democ­ra­cy Par­ty) seek­ing to draw atten­tion to the vio­la­tions of rights and strip search­es in pris­ons, has begun a “human rights watch” in fron the the type F high secu­ri­ty prison in Kandıra.


demirtas

The Euro­pean Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Sela­hat­tin Demir­taş’ deten­tion was con­trary to the con­ven­tion and demand­ed that Turkey ‘take all nec­es­sary mea­sures” for the imme­di­ate lib­er­a­tion of the for­mer Kur­dish deputy from the HDP.


Turk­ish Min­is­ter of the Inte­ri­or Süley­man Soy­lu: “Demir­taş is a ter­ror­ist. The deci­sion by the ECHR is null and void. It is sense­less. This is clear and obvi­ous. Europe speaks out of hos­til­i­ty against Turkey and can­not clean up this sis­tu­a­tion, the Turk­ish judi­cia­ry and admin­is­tra­tion have wit­nessed this for years.”


27.12.2020


Özlem Gümüş­taş, co-pres­i­dent of the ESP (Social­ist Par­ty of the Oppressed), Cana Yüce co-pres­i­dent of EMEP (Labor Par­ty) and the pres­i­dent of the DP (Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Par­ty) Elif Torun Öneren announced that all oppo­nents must exert pres­sure on the author­i­ties in pow­er in order to see applied the deci­sion to lib­er­ate Sela­hat­tin Demirtaş.


28.12.2020


roboski

On the 9th anniver­sary of the aer­i­al strike on Robos­ki which cost 34 peo­ple their lives, Sez­gin Tan­rıku­lu, CHP deputy (Peo­ple’s Repub­li­can Par­ty) declared “the ones respon­si­ble for this mas­sacre are cur­rent­ly every­where inside the gov­ern­ment”.

Arti­cle on Kedis­tan: Robos­ki • the sole sur­vivor to the mas­sacre bears witness


The “Draft Leg­is­la­tion on the pre­ven­tion of the dis­tri­b­u­tion and financ­ing of weapons of mass destruc­tion” has just been adopt­ed by the Nation­al Assem­bly despite objec­tions from the oppo­si­tion, cit­i­zens and civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions.

Arti­cle on Bianet Eng­lish: ‘NGO bill will lead to clo­sure of many associations’


In his week­ly report, the CHP deputy Erdoğan Toprak sub­mit­ted to the admin­is­tra­tive body of his par­ty, he wrote that the non appli­ca­tion of the deci­sion by the Euro­pean Court of Human Rights rel­a­tive to the lib­er­a­tion of Demir­taş would gen­er­ate seri­ous con­se­quences for Turkey.


Work­ers react­ed fol­low­ing the announce­ment of a net min­i­mum rev­enue of 2 826,90 Turk­ish lira (313,03€) effec­tive in 2021: “We do not want a min­i­mal life!”


29.12.2020


osman kavala

The Turk­ish Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court turned down Osman Kavala’s indi­vid­ual request and con­sid­ered that the time he has spent in pre-tri­al deten­tion since his arrest on Octo­ber 19 2017 does not con­sti­tute a vio­la­tion of his “right to freedom”.

On Kedis­tan: Osman Kavala • The End­less Gezi Tri­al in a few words 


aylin sozer

Alin Söz­er, a teacher at Istan­bul Mal­te­pe was bru­tal­ly mur­dered by Kemal Ayyıldız. While it is dif­fi­cult to estab­lish a link between the killer and the vic­tim, some sources the police could have con­tact­ed claim they were for­mer lovers. In the same day in dif­fer­ent towns in Turkey, 4 oth­er women were vic­tims of feminicides.


30.12.2020


The office of Ankara’s pros­e­cu­tor has pre­pared an accu­sa­tion pro­ceed­ing from the inquest on the protests in Kobanê in 2014, against 108 peo­ple includ­ing the for­mer copres­i­dents of the HDP, Sela­hat­tin Demir­taş and Figen Yük­sek­dağ, who have been in prison now since Novem­ber 5 2016.


The police inter­vened dur­ing an action by mil­i­tants of the “We will stop feminni­cides” plat­form and mem­bers of the Wom­en’s Coun­cils, who had assem­bled under the slo­gan “We shall not remain silent” con­cern­ing the four women assas­si­nat­ed on that same day: Aylin Söz­er, Sel­da Taş, Vesile Dön­mez and Betül Tuğluk


pyd

Enver Müs­lim, copres­i­dent of the PYD (Demo­c­ra­t­ic Union Par­ty of Syr­i­an Kur­dis­tan) declared they were ready to make peace with Turkey, con­di­tion­al on its with­draw­al from Syr­ia, begin­ning with Afrin, and that it cease its hos­tile atti­tude toward the Kur­dish people.


31.12.2020


demokrasi turkiye

94 rep­re­sen­ta­tives from var­i­ous pro­fes­sions, politi­cians, intel­lec­tu­als, writ­ers, artists, jour­nal­ists pub­lished a press release denounc­ing injus­tice, the per­se­cu­tion, notably of their peers, and demand­ing jus­tice and democracy.


odatv

Sev­er­al com­plaints were filed against the book “Metas­taz 2: Cen­dered”, pub­lished by Barış Pehli­van, edi­tor-in-chief of Odatv and Barış Terkoğlu, the infor­ma­tion direc­tor. Pros­e­cut­ed for their book but also for their arti­cles and pro­grams, Barış Terkoğlu risks a total of 95 years in prison and 63 years of impris­on­ment are request­ed against Barış Pehlivan.


gezi

The Turk­ish Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court has decid­ed that Yiğit Aksakoğlu who was arrest­ed in the “Gezi Park tri­al” and spent sev­en months in pre-tri­al deten­tion before being acquit­ted of all accu­sa­tions, hav­ing thus been sub­ject­ed to vio­la­tions of rights, should receive an indem­ni­ty. The same tri­bunal recent­ly turned down the request by Osman Kavala who is in prison since Octo­ber 18 2017 after being acquit­ted in this same tri­al, but who was imme­di­ate­ly returned to prison on a new accusation…


Translation by Renée Lucie Bourges
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