This statement is considered necessary in response to the popular concern of staff, press and the general public about the violation of our campus by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on the night of the 18th October 2013. On the 2nd October 2013, ODTÜ was notified by fax that the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning had approved the Plan of [...] → Read the full article…
The Student Collectives published a statement about the insidious assault against the ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University) on the last day of the religious festival, after midnight: This assault is not only against the trees in the ODTÜ campus but also against the University itself! We are going to resist all over Turkey! The aggressors who assaulted the ODTÜ by [...] → Read the full article…
Issues that people are facing in the traffic or formation of little pools around Taksim area are because of the flaws of construction projects; these flaws are irreversible, Murat Ergün, professor of construction at ITU, told Bianet. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality completed its pedestrianization project of Taksim Sqaure. Currently, the car traffic between Tarlabaşı Boulevard and Cumhuriyet Avenue is going to [...] → Read the full article…
Various governmental agencies that continue to plan, execute, and maintain impunity for violence have been receiving training on “good governance” from their peers in EU countries since at least 2004. Given that history, is it not time to look more deeply into the structure of “advanced liberal democracies” and their national security doctrines that lie at the heart of the [...] → Read the full article…
A new regulation will allow Turkish police to detain those who possess the “risk of conducting a protest” from 12 to 24 hours without the demand of a prosecutor or a judge, prompting acute worries from opposition deputies. The new regulations that will be conducted jointly by the justice and interior ministries will allow the police to detain a suspect [...] → Read the full article…
“Turkey or worldwide, tear gas must not be produced,” said Chamber of Chemical Engineers 2nd Chairperson Onur Gökulu, responding police authorities’ statements on the planned production of “national tear gas” “We are opposed to the production and use of tear gas not only in Turkey but anywhere in the world. Turkey or worldwide, tear gas must not be produced,” said [...] → Read the full article…
In a major report issued today, Amnesty International has given compelling and comprehensive documentation of Gezi events, providing detailed evidence of Turkish authorities suppression of freedom of assembly and expression. At least eight thousand injured, at least five confirmed deaths (with strong evidence linking at least three of these deaths to police abuse), many thousands detained. As this powerful video [...] → Read the full article…
An autopsy revealed that 6 bullets hit Hasan Ferit Gedik in last night’s shooting in Gülsuyu neighborhood, Istanbul. However, Gedik’s clothes at the time of the incident were reported “missing”. The death report of Hasan Ferit Gedik – a 21 year old man who was shot by a group in Istanbul’s Gülsuyu neighborhood – revealed that 6 bullets hit the [...] → Read the full article…
The Turkish prime minister revealed the iron fist in his velvet glove this summer, but of which is his true character built? All summer long, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in a very bad mood. The public squares and parks of Istanbul and several other Turkish cities were taken over by protesters he angrily dismissed as “riff-raff”, turning the full [...] → Read the full article…
Workers of the Kazova textile factory in Istanbul’s Bomonti district will exhibit their own products, pullovers, in a fashion show outside the factory on Saturday evening. The event will also be supported by Orhan Alkaya, Pelin Batu, Cengiz Bozkurt, Deniz Türkali, Nilüfer Açıkalın, Güler İnce, İlkay Akkaya, Pınar Aydınlar, Hakan Yeşilyurt, Ece Temelkuran, Ruhi Su Dostlar Korosu, Metin Yeğin, Grup [...] → Read the full article…