HDK calls to Supreme Court for impartiality
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- 09:25 08/5/2020
Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Executive Board released a written statement regarding the law on criminal enforcement today (May 7).
Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Executive Board released a written statement regarding the law on criminal enforcement today (May 7).
Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı, who has been dismissed and a trustee was appointed for his place has been in prison for 200 days. In his lettere sent a letter for the public for the 200th day in prison, the elected Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır people wrote: "If they ask me do you have any regret due to being imprisoned, I would say: 'Never'."
Trade Union of Employees in Public Health and Social Services (SES) General Directorate Gönül Erden, Central Board members Pınar İçel and Aylin Akçay shared the survey result on personal protective equipments and measures in Turkey's national health service institutions.
The Grup Yorum member artist İbrahim Gökçek, who had just puased his death fast on the 323th day lost his life at the hospital he was medically threated.
Seriously ill prisoner Sabri Kaya called his family and said: "I can't hold on to life anymore'.
HDP MYK, commemorating the revolutionary leaders of Turkish youth movement on the 48th anniversary of their execution, said: "We will always remember their pioneer spirit and the joint struggle of the peoples they pointed at as a precedent."
In a joint declaration 122 democratic institutions, associations, platforms and political parties in Turkey said they won't tolerate the restriction of the powers of local opposition governments and threats to be appointed trustees.
Noting the situation of workers who had to work in mines, construction, factories and workshops despite the risk of coronavirus, Dr. Sedat Abbasoğlu said: "The health of workers during the Covid- 19 outbreak is left to the mercy of the bosses.
The Supreme Court upheld the 7-year and 6-month prison sentence given to Selma Irmak, who was the Co-Chair of DTK, arguing that the DTK was identical with KCK.
The We Will Stop Women Murders Platform (KCDP) and the Women's Assemblies said that the number of women who applied for support denouncing the violence they were exposed to has increased in April.
13 bar associations said that the regulation in the Law of Execution goes against the principle of equality of the Constitution and asked the Constitutional Court to cancel it.
ISIS mercenaries attacked Iraqi soldiers near Maxmur, in the province of Mosul, South Kurdistan.
According to the latest figures, 59 people have died of coronavirus in the past 24 hours in Turkey.
İHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan announced that there had been 440 violations of right to life, 447 torture and ill-treatment cases in 2019. Türkdoğan defined the year in question as "a year when the regime became increasingly authoritarian and the official ideology tried to be fully implemented".
Cancer and tuberculosis patient Mehmet Salih Filiz, a prisoner in Ödemiş Prison, stating that he has been detoriorating, made a call and said 'Please hear my voice'.