CHP requests general meeting on Idlib at parliament
CHP has submitted a motion and requested a general debate on Idlib at the Parliament. “The pace of developments in the field and the life safety of our soldiers in Idlib necessitate a rapid involvement of the Parliament in the incident”, says the party.
Intense military shipment to Idlib and the border
TSK's military concentration and personnel shipment to Idlib and the Hatay border continues.
Human traffickers asked for money for the delivery of 13 refugees that froze to death
While the current situation of the 13 people who are assumed to have died of hypothermia can not be learned, human traffickers who called one of the refugees uncle Mihemmed Sheıkh Nebi, offered to deliver the bodies of their loved ones if they are willing to pay for them. On the other hand, new images of the refugees were obtained.
Home raid in Diyarbakır: Gun held to the head of a 3 year old
Police raiding a house in Diyarbakır, detained Tirej Teke, a high school student into custody. Mother Nezahat Teke told that the police held a gun to the head of her 3 year old grandson.
Turkey's in a dead end: The only solution is negotiation
Middle East expert Bereket Kar who stated that Turkey is in a serious impasse in Idlib and can not take the risk of conflict with Syria, said the only solution is to negotiate with Syrian administration.
Hakkari Governor declares five regions "special security zones"
Hakkari Governorate has banned entrance and exit to five regions for 15 days. The reason given was "special security" measures.
36 years prison sentence requested for Sur Co-Mayor Özdemir: Anonymous witness does not recognize him!
Sur Municipality Co- Mayor Cemal Özdemir is prosecuted for the demonstrations and events he attended and for an anonymous witness statement who doesn't even recognize him with a sentence request of 17years to 36 years.
Release application of Co-Mayor Yaşar rejected
Yüksekova Co-Mayor Remziye Yaşar's release decision given by Hakkari 1st High Criminal Court on February 4 was rejected by the higher court.
Yüksekova Mayor Sarı not released
After the first hearing of the case where the dismissed Yüksekova Co- Mayor İrfan Sarı, the court decided to continue the detention of Sarı and postponed the hearing to March 9.
HDP İpekyolu Mayors not released
The court ruled continuation of detention for the suspended co-mayors of Van’s İpekyolu district municipality.
HDP Diyarbakır Mayor Mızraklı not released
The second hearing in the trial against the deposed co-mayor of Diyarbakır, Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı took place under high security precautions. The democratically elected and unlawfully dismissed mayor remains in prison.
Press statement for Mehmet Bal, missing for 18 days
The family of Mehmet Bal, whose fate and whereabouts have been unknown for 18 days now, have held a statement for the press at the Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Office.
Russian warplanes hits Idlin: 5 Turkish soldiers lost their lives
The air strike on Taftanaz airbase came amid intensified clashes in the embattled Idlib region.
Gülşen, abused by his father: The police told me I must have misunderstood
Mersin Women's Platform reacted to the release of S.D who abused his three daughters. One of the sisters, Hatice Gülşen said that the police whom she applied for a criminal complaint told her that she must have misinterpreted his father's behaviour.
Coronavirus deaths reach 811
China raised the death toll from its coronavirus outbreak to 811 on Sunday, passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic.
Unemployement rate rises to 13,3
The TurkStat has announced the Labor Force Statistics for November 2019. Accordingly, while the number of unemployed has reached 4 million 308 thousand people, the unemployment rate is 13.3 percent with 1 percentage point increase.
Yiğit: Turkey will spiral down further if they obstruct Syrian Army
Middle East expert Hamide Yiğit who stated that Turkey can only get out of the Syria conflict by negotiations with the Damascus regime, said: "Turkey must maximize its border security against the jihadist groups that can turn into a threat against it and must not obstruct the advance of Syrian Army or otherwise they will spiral down further."
Mehmet Bal is no where to be found for 18 days!
Mehmet Bal (58) who came to İstanbul from Batman to visit his son in prison can not be found for 18 days. While Bal's family did not recieve any response from the institutions they applied to, the prosecutor they had a meeting with asked if he could have joined PKK.
He plants the trees students bought to his own garden
The allagations about Halil İbrahim Kaya who was appointed as a manager to Bursa Cem Sultan Anatolian Religious Vocational High School (İmam Hatip) caused great reactions in the city. Accused of covering up the sexual harassment at school, Kahya planted the fruit trees he made the students buy, to his own garden.
Priest Bileçen charged with 'being a member of organization'
The priest Sefer (Aho) Bileçen of the Mor Yakup Church (also known as Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibison) were imprisoned with charges of “aiding organization" and he was released on January 14 due to reactions. 2 days after the release of the priest Bileçen, the bill of indicment has been prepared with the charges of "being a member of organization".
Katırcıoğlu: A serious economic crisis is faced
Speaking at the conference on “Poverty is not fate, crisis is in capitalism, solution is in socialism” organized by the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) in Dersim, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Erol Katırcığolu said, “Contrary to the government's statements, rather a serious economic crisis is faced."
Aydeniz: AKP-MHP shows off on victimization
Speaking on her party's Antep provincial congress, Democratic Regions PArty (DBP) Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz said that AKP-MHP was performing a show on victimization.
Names of those who died on October 10 are imprinted on trees
Organised Struggle Group came together in Kuğulu Park and imprinted the names of 103 people who lost their lives in the Ankara Train Station massacre, which was committed by ISIS bomb attack on October 10, 2015.
Snowstorm obstacle against the search activities in avalanche zone
In the region where the avalanche disaster resulted in 41 people losing their lives, in Van's Bahçesaray district, the search and rescue activities, which were interrupted previous day can not be started yet due to the unfavorable weather conditions.
Statement from HDP for refugees frozen to death: The shame of humanity
HDP, announced a statement on the 13 refugees lost their lives in Van by freezing, indicating that this is a shame of humanity and that the primary responsible are the government of Iran and Turkey.
Güven: Kurds will not accept to live without a status
Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair Leyla Güven, who participated in the activities of the upcoming great congress of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul Provincial Organization, said that the Kurds will not accept to live without a status as she emphasized that all the problems were caused by the deadlock of the Kurdish question.
13 immigrants have set off with a group of 150 people
The whereabouts of the 13 immigrant who lost their lives by freezing after they were lost in the Sarıçimen Neighbourhood of Van’s ÇAldıran district is still not known. Mihemmed Sheıkh Nebi, the uncle of Immigrant Sheıkh Abdulrahman Abdo, said that the authorities are not sharing information with them.
It is the poor and the peasants, who uses the mother language most
The Center for Socio-Political Field Studies has reached into a conclusion by their investigation on the relationship between the socio-economic status and cultural status and the usage of mother language that the mother language was used mostly in the home, among the people with low income and peasants.
Father of 3 imprisoned children is taken into custody
In the house raids occurred in the night hours in Mardin’s Artuklu district, 4 people were taken into custody including Abdülkadir Çalhan and his son.
Temelli: What is happening in this country is Picasso's Guernica
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Sezai Temelli resembled what is happening in Turkey to Picasso's Guernica and added, "If people are setting themselves on fire saying that my children are hungry, this is a shame for that country. That's exactly what we are supposed to do, to reverse this suffering and this course of events upside down" he said.
Diyarbakır's elected co-major Mızraklı's case will be seen tomorrow
The second trial of Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, the elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality (DBB) will be seen tomorrow, in which he faces 15 years of prison. The acquital of Hicran Berna Ayverdi is demanded who repeated her statements against Mızraklı in court, as she was prosecuted with a demand of 73 times of aggravated life imprisonment.
Died frozen in the border, identities of 2 refugees from Kobanê are learned
It was learned that 2 out of 13 refugees who died in Van's Çaldıran district were a couple from Kobanê, Sheikh Abdulrahman Abdo and Hendreen İbish.
Survivor of the second avalanche: No measures were taken, we walked to the death
Mikail Kaya, who lost his nephew Murat Kapağan in the first avalanche in Bahçesaray district of Van and his uncle Muzaffer Kaya in the second, survived the second avalanche. Kaya told, “There was this many losses of life because of neglect. Measures could be taken to prevent civilians from entering the scene of avalanche. It was deliberate that they let us walk to the death.”
Prisoner, whose treatment was blocked, faces intraocular ossification
In the eyes of the prisoner Adem Durmuş, who is imprisoned in Samsun Bafra F-Type Closed Prison was not given treatment for the cataract disease on his left eye his left eye and now faces intraocular ossification.
Allegation of torture against villagers in Karayazı
It is learned that soldiers who raided a house in the morning in Çavuş village of Karayazı district of Erzurum tortured villagers in the house.
13 refugees lost their lives in Van by freezing
13 refugees in Caldıran district of Van have died due to freezing.
Regional report from IHD: Pressure, violence, torture, isolation, death, arrest, ban, trustee
İHD's (Humar Rights Association) "Human Rights Violations Report of 2019" emphasized the increasing systematic torture and the spread of torture in the cities of the Kurdish region as well as the 31 municipalities which are assigned a trustee. Report announces that 2,987 people have been taken into custody, 511 have been arrested during the year 2019 in the region. Among the total number of 2,987 custodies, 50 of them reported to be children.
HRW: Erdoğan promotes the violence option
Indicating that 23 mayors in total have been arrested and a trustee has been appointed to HDP’s 32 municipalities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that the removal of mayors “has effectively cancelled the results of the March 31 local elections.”
Journalist Hüseyin Aykol's passport confiscated
Passport of Journalist Hüseyin Aykol was confiscated in İstanbul Airport where he went to go to Belgium.
Memorial held for those who died in the basements of Cizre: AKP is the responsible for this brutality
Those who were burned and killed in the basements of their houses during the curfews declared in Cizre were commemorated. HDP District Co-chair Üzeyyir Kılınç stated that the responsible for the events was the AKP government and demanded the perpetrators be revealed and punished.
Kubilay: Turkey must leave Syrian territorry withour reserve
HDP Spokesperson Günay Kubilay who criticized the policies of the government that led to the escalating tension in Idlib, said: "Turkey must, without reserve, leave Syria. The path to a democratic political process should be established and Turkey must respect to the right of the Syrian people to determine their own destiny."
Imralı application from the families of the prisoners
The families of Abdullah Öcalan and the other three prisoners in Imrali, applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office asking permission to visit their relatives.
Many taken into custody in Istanbul in new police operation
A large number of people have been taken into custody in Bahçelievler, Küçükçekmece, Esenyurt and Beyoğlu boroughs of Istanbul in the latest of the political genocide operations.
Venice Commission visits HDP
HDP hosted the Venice Commission in the parliament. During the meeting, HDP briefed the commission on the appointment of trustees, the detention and the arrests.
Call from UN for ceasefire in İdlib
The United Nations Security Council, held a meeting regarding the Idlib agenda, called for a ceasefire.
Police tried to kidnap HDP MP's brother
It was stated that HDP MP Dersim Dağ's brother Azad Dağ was tried to be kidnapped by the police who followed him but was released after the reactions.
Is the red line Jerusalem or trade?
President Erdogan, who has frequently referred Israel as a "terrorist state" in his discourse with a pro-Palestine attitude, has never made any concessions from the commercial relations with Israel during his 18-year rule.
Kurdish parties in Mahmur: Embargo should end immediately
A delegation of representatives from DTK, HDP, PDK-T, PIA and Azadî Party visited Mahmur Camp, which has been under embargo for 7 months. DTK co-chair Berdan Öztürk, who demands the embargo to end, said, "The Kurds should end the hostilities between them."
Özpek: Government's will to fight is greater than their will to keep Turkey safe
Political Scientist Assoc. Dr. Burak Bilgehan Özpek said: "The government's will to fight is greater than their will to keep Turkey safe. The actors that you support will turn back to you as a security threat after a while", regarding the tension in Idlib.
USA: U.S. Forces Killed al-Qaida Leader Qassim al-Rimi
USA President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaida leader who claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors.