Call from Ünsal for Akman on death fast
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- 13:02 11/9/2020
Death fasting lawyer AYtaç Ünsal who was released last week called for Didem Akman who is still on death fast.
Death fasting lawyer AYtaç Ünsal who was released last week called for Didem Akman who is still on death fast.
Journalist Ferhat Çelik, who was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison for reporting the death of MİT personnel, stated that the court process was a threater and that they were punished to supress the free press.
Stating that her sister is in critical condition, Ayten Akman, sister of Didem Akman who has been on a death fast for 207 days, called on to the Ministry of Justice to meet her demands.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has indicated that while the eastern provinces of Diyarbakır, Şırnak, Batman, Mardin, Urfa and Siirt have witnessed a decrease in their COVID-19 infection rates, it has almost doubled in Van province over the past month.
It turned out that Kurdish workers who returned to their villages after the attack they suffered in Sakarya and were quarantined for coronavirus as a village, just before the visit of the Kurdistani Alliance delegation 4 days ago, were not even tested. The villagers said that what happened was a continuation of the attack in Sakarya.
İsmail Taş, who worked as a veterinarian in the Mardin Metropolitan Municipality under the administration of the trustee, was banned from civil service because of the Kurdish song he shared six years ago on his social media account.
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the labor force statistics for June. The figures of the state agency say that the number of unemployed persons decreased by 152 thousand to 4 million 101 thousand in a year.
Ankara IHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan said, "This visit in terms of the protection of human rights values is a great erosion and it shows the point capitalist modernity's understanding of law came".
60 year old Hatice Özdemir who continues her search and demand for justice for her two brothers who had been dissappeared 27 years ago, has been handed a prison sentence of 6 years and 3 months for 'being a member of an illegal organization'. Özdemir said: "They should prosecute the killers of my brothers, not me."
Shortly after the court ruled for their release on probation considering the time they had already spent behind bars, journalists Barış Pehlivan, Hülya Kılınç and Murat Ağırel have been released.
In its front page, Turkey’s weekly humor magazine Leman has problematized some state officials’ and MPs’ attitude towards the racist attack that targeted Kurdish seasonal agricultural workers in Turkey’s western province of Sakarya.
The second hearing of the case where seven journalists face charges for disclosing the identity of an intelligence officer who was killed in Libya.
The hearing of the case against ETHA editor Semiha Şahin and reporter Pınar Gayıp has been postponed.
Özgür Gündem newspaper's main trial hearing was postponed.
Fighter jets belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces bombed many areas in the countryside of Duhok and Amediye.