ANKARA – The debate over a controversial road construction on the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus shows that “some people have not learned their lessons,” according to the outgoing EU ambassador to Turkey. “It is unfortunate that it was undertaken without waiting for the final [court] decision.,” Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, told [...] → 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…
A court arrested four suspects (including a policeman) for the willful murder of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, a Gezi Park protestors who died in the results of massive beating in Eskişehir province. By Beyza KURAL – Istanbul – BIA News Desk beyza@bianet.org A court arrested four suspects (including a policeman) who stood trial for the willful murder of Ali Ismail Korkmaz [...] → Read the full article…
ISTANBUL - Police fired water cannons and tear gas at a group of demonstrators who gathered in Taksim Square to protest the violence used against a 14-year-old teenager who has been in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest. Berkin Elvan was not a protester but a by-stander [...] → Read the full article…
July 29, 2013 Media Contact – Gaye Ozpinar / Fusun H. Tufan – Tel: (641) 715- 3900 x 677028# – info@bostonbul.org July 30, 2013, 11am, State House (Room 437), 24 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts Boston, MA, July 29, 2013 – Bostonbul (www.bostonbul.org) and a panel of experts will be discussing the recent protests in Turkey with introduction from Representative Denise [...] → Read the full article…
By Gul Tuysuz and Ivan Watson Istanbul (CNN) — A pro-government newspaper in Turkey fired its ombudsman this week. The dismissal came as a prominent journalists’ union and the main opposition party warned of a broad government crackdown against the Turkish press. “All the independent voices are now being silenced,” said Yavuz Baydar in an interview with CNN, a day [...] → Read the full article…
The recent uprisings in Turkey indicated a transformation of youth cynicism into a widespread protest against the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) government’s conservative and autocratic policies. This transformation demands a new way of thinking about youth and politics in the country. If nothing else, young people can no longer be easily characterized as politically apathetic. In June 2013, Turkey [...] → Read the full article…
ISTANBUL – Turkey should readjust its legal framework regarding the use of tear gas grenades to prevent further risk of death and injury, according to a European Court of Human Rights decision. The decision came yesterday as a result of the chamber’s session on the case of Abdullah Yaşa, who had applied to the European court over his injuries caused [...] → Read the full article…
From Lufthansa to the CIA, Turkey’s government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to explain Gezi Park It has to be said that when the Turkish government began to flail around for the “real reasons” behind the Gezi protests, their initial conspiracy theories lacked imagination – the CIA, Europeans jealous of their economic success, unspecified foreign forces in [...] → Read the full article…
By Cecile B. Wilson, MD – The President of the World Medical Association (12.07.13) The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) has drawn our attention to hundreds of cases of injury and detention following police confrontations with protestors that began in response to demonstrations in Gezi Park Istanbul May 27. The majority of those injuries according to the TMA were caused by the [...] → Read the full article…