Tag Archives: Turkey

Hurriyet Daily News: Turkish deputy PM rejects song for lyrics mentioning national alcoholic drink ‘rakı’

BURSA Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç asked a local singer not to sing the folk song “Vardar Ovası” because the song contained the word “rakı” in the lyrics in a meeting with the Bursa-based Balkan Immigrant’s Culture and Support Association, or Bal-Göç, on Aug. 9. A local folk singer, Fahriye Güney, asked Arınç for support to attend cultural events [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Why do Facebook and Twitter Shut Down Accounts In Turkey?

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Recently, several Facebook and Twitter account have either been shut down or suspended. bianet asked the reason of this recent phenomenon to Erkan Saka, lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University. By Elif AKGÜL – İstanbul – BIA News Desk elif@bianet.org Recently, Facebook has reportedly shut down the pages of two alternative news websites (Yüksekova Haber and Ötekilerin Postası), while Twitter suspended several [...] → Read the full article…

Bostonbul: Briefing about recent protests in Turkey sheds light on police brutality and human rights violations

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…

BBC News: Turkish PM Erdogan threatens to sue Times over open letter

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Turkey’s prime minister has threatened legal action against a UK newspaper for publishing an open letter criticising his handling of recent protests. Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Times of “renting out its pages for money”. Hollywood celebrities and academics were among those who signed the letter this week accusing Turkey’s government of “dictatorial rule”. A row over a park in [...] → Read the full article…

Science: Turkey must end violent response to protests

Edited by Jennifer Sills THE TURKISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (TTB) REPORTED THAT 8121 PEOPLE WERE OFFICIALLY admitted to hospitals resulting from police violence between 31 May and 26 June (1). This number includes 5 deaths, 61 life-threatening injuries, 104 head traumas, and 11 ophthalmic injuries, one of which led to loss of an eye due to shots of tear gas canisters from [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Another ECHR verdict on Turkey’s tear gas use

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The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty in the case of Abdullah Yaş – a protestor who was injured by police tear gas bombs in Diyarbakır in 2006. The Turkish state was ordered to pay 20,000 euros to the applicant. The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty in the case of Abdullah Yaş – a protestor [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: European court says Turkey must revise tear gas laws

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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…

CNN International: Counter-terror police arrest dozens in Istanbul raids, Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz

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Istanbul (CNN) — Turkish counter-terror police launched pre-dawn raids against scores of targets across Turkey’s largest city Tuesday. At least 30 suspects were detained, Turkey’s semi-official Anatolian Agency reported, in connection with anti-government protests that erupted in Istanbul in late May. What’s driving unrest and protests in Turkey? The Turkish Interior Ministry, the Istanbul governor’s office and Istanbul police declined [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: Erdoğan’s chief adviser knows what’s behind Turkey’s protests – telekinesis

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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…

Amnesty International: Susan Sarandon offers her support to Amnesty’s campaign on Turkey

Our thanks goes out to Susan Sarandon, who has offered her generous support to Amnesty’s on-going campaign to protect freedom of expression and assembly and end police violence in Turkey. She has helped support our petition drive through twitter and now has written an open letter calling on others to lend their support as well. In her letter, she writes: [...] → Read the full article…

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