Draft bill presented to the Justice Commission of Turkish Parliament on June 30 by President Erdoğan’s AKP aiming to form 'multiple bar associations' in each of Turkey’s provinces is accepted by the Justice Commission of Turkish Parliament.
The downpour that has been effective since yesterday in Başkale district of Turkey's easter providence of Van has caused another flood in the district.
13-year-old Fatma Elarslan from whom no news could have been heart and found dead after 20 days following the curfews in the district of İdil in Şırnak province was deemed as "a member of an organization" based on the testimonies of an "anonymous witness" and a decision of non-prosecution was regarding her death.
Journalist Vecih Cuzdan evaluated the Libya policy of the Turkish government saying, "Due to the policies of conquer followed in Libya, Turkey will not only have to come up against its neighboring countries, but also be pushed into such a position where it may compromise its natural rights in the Mediterranean."
Slaughter of trees for the construction of Turkish military stations called “kalekol” recently built, continues non-stop on Cudi Mountain in Turkey's eastern province of Şırnak.
Abdullah Öncel, the head of the Urfa Bar Association, who has been participating the protests outside the Turkish Parliament against the draft bill that aims to adopt multiple bar system, said, "We will keep on struggle until the draft bill is withdrawn."
The military operation targeting Heftanîn continues on the 19th day. Dûpişk Hill, where conflicts are intensified, has been bombarded since yesterday.
The wife and children of İzzettin Çelik, who lost his life in an armed conflict in Bitlis, has been in quest of the bones of Çelik. As all their attempts to find the bones of the father of the family, killed and lost, remain inconclusive, their application to learn if one of the bodies buried in Kilyos belongs to Çelik has not been given response yet.
Stating that the oppressions targeting their Congress is a part of the 'destruction plan' of the ruling party AKP, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Berdan Öztürk emphasized that the tendencies to target DTK is an attack on the future of the peoples of Turkey saying, "DTK consists of not only a signboard or a building.
The Justice Commission in Turkey's Parliament passed 12 articles of the bill to split bar associations.
Turkish Minister of Health Koca has announced that four people have died and 97 others have been wounded in the explosion took place at a firework factory in the district of Hendek in Turkey’s Sakarya province.
The court sentenced Taner Kılıç to 6 years and 3 months of prison, Günal Kurşun, İdil Eser and Özlem Dalkıran to 1 year and 13 months of prison each.
Having the 6th hearing of the case that they have been on trial, imprisoned Kurdish woman politicans Sabahat Tuncel and Gülten Kışanak were not released.
Thousands of lawyers from tens of bar associations from all over the country gathered in a massive demonstration outside the Ankara Courthouse despite the ban of Ankara Governor's Office. Ankara Bar Assocation's Head Erinç Sağkan read the press statement saying, "We will continue to go too far ifs the bill that aims to divide and silence to bars is accepted as a law in the parliament."
Bar heads and lawyers gathered in a massive demonstration outside the Ankara Couthouse as their planned demonstration in Anıtpark was banned by Ankara Governor's Office.