Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu resigns
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- 23:00 12/4/2020
The minister admitted to his failure in the management of the coronavirus crisis.
The minister admitted to his failure in the management of the coronavirus crisis.
Stating that they have managed to contact 49 families within the scope of "Fellow Family Campaign" HDP Muğla Province Co-chair Fulya Erdoğan raised the call, “Let's knit the nets of solidarity together".
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) Central Office has published a written statement to protest the delivery of the deceased body of Agit İpek to his family by a cargo package.
HDP's Member of the Parliement from Batman, Feleknas Uca stated that all political prisoners, especially PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, should be released, pointing out that prisons are intended to be turned into mass graves.
The Kurdistani Alliance Study published a written statement regarding the new execution law proposal as the negotiations continue at the General Assembly of the Parliement regarding the exclusion of political prisoners.
Amed Labour and Democracy Platform declared a statement of protest regarding that the dead body of the Agit İpek has been sent to his family by a cargo package.
Stating that they go to their hospitals by their own means of transportation on the first day of the curfew and after they object to that a shuttle has been arranged for themselves, nure Doğan Güneş said that the the shuttle who has 14-people capacity carries 30 healthcare workers every day.
A prisoner in Van T Type Prison, stated that they were exposed to the violence by the prison guards who were called themselves as “Team A” and the prisoner called for public opinion to be sensitive on the increasing human rights violations in the prisons.
Announcing the report they prepared regarding the violations of rights in prisons, MED TUHAD-FED Federation stated that a doctor who has been visiting the wards in the Tarsus Prison for the medical examination of the prisoners tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the research of Socio-Polirical Field Research Center, domestic violence against women increased by 27.8 percent in the quarantine process.
DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven stated that sending the deceased body of Agit Işık to her family by "cargo shipping" is a result of the approach of the government regarding the solution of the Kurdish question.
Although the number of healthcare workers infected in the fight against coronavirus outbreak is not clearly shared by the state organs, the ambigious data indicates that there are around a thousand healthcare workers in Turkey who are infected with COVID-19.
Within the scope of HDP's "Fellow Family Campaign", nearly a thousand families in need have been detected and contacted in Şırnak. HDP Provincial Co-chair Sebahattin Deniz stated that “Social life means to share the truth” and emphasized that they can overcome this difficult process only by solidarity.
Volunteers of the solidarity networks in İstanbul have produced and distributed 2 thousand face protection equipments for the healthcare workers under threat.
Pointing attention to the outcomes of coronavirus regarding the socio-cultural and psychological destruction, psychologist Onur Çakı stated that a new concept called “coronaphobia” has entered human life and said, “Don't let the anxiety of coronavirus rule your life.”