The priest Sefer (Aho) Bileçen of the Mor Yakup Church (also known as Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibison) were imprisoned with charges of “aiding organization" and he was released on January 14 due to reactions. 2 days after the release of the priest Bileçen, the bill of indicment has been prepared with the charges of "being a member of organization".
Speaking at the conference on “Poverty is not fate, crisis is in capitalism, solution is in socialism” organized by the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) in Dersim, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP Erol Katırcığolu said, “Contrary to the government's statements, rather a serious economic crisis is faced."
Speaking on her party's Antep provincial congress, Democratic Regions PArty (DBP) Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz said that AKP-MHP was performing a show on victimization.
Organised Struggle Group came together in Kuğulu Park and imprinted the names of 103 people who lost their lives in the Ankara Train Station massacre, which was committed by ISIS bomb attack on October 10, 2015.
In the region where the avalanche disaster resulted in 41 people losing their lives, in Van's Bahçesaray district, the search and rescue activities, which were interrupted previous day can not be started yet due to the unfavorable weather conditions.
HDP, announced a statement on the 13 refugees lost their lives in Van by freezing, indicating that this is a shame of humanity and that the primary responsible are the government of Iran and Turkey.
Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair Leyla Güven, who participated in the activities of the upcoming great congress of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul Provincial Organization, said that the Kurds will not accept to live without a status as she emphasized that all the problems were caused by the deadlock of the Kurdish question.
The whereabouts of the 13 immigrant who lost their lives by freezing after they were lost in the Sarıçimen Neighbourhood of Van’s ÇAldıran district is still not known. Mihemmed Sheıkh Nebi, the uncle of Immigrant Sheıkh Abdulrahman Abdo, said that the authorities are not sharing information with them.
The Center for Socio-Political Field Studies has reached into a conclusion by their investigation on the relationship between the socio-economic status and cultural status and the usage of mother language that the mother language was used mostly in the home, among the people with low income and peasants.
In the house raids occurred in the night hours in Mardin’s Artuklu district, 4 people were taken into custody including Abdülkadir Çalhan and his son.
The second trial of Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, the elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality (DBB) will be seen tomorrow, in which he faces 15 years of prison. The acquital of Hicran Berna Ayverdi is demanded who repeated her statements against Mızraklı in court, as she was prosecuted with a demand of 73 times of aggravated life imprisonment.
It was learned that 2 out of 13 refugees who died in Van's Çaldıran district were a couple from Kobanê, Sheikh Abdulrahman Abdo and Hendreen İbish.
Mikail Kaya, who lost his nephew Murat Kapağan in the first avalanche in Bahçesaray district of Van and his uncle Muzaffer Kaya in the second, survived the second avalanche. Kaya told, “There was this many losses of life because of neglect. Measures could be taken to prevent civilians from entering the scene of avalanche. It was deliberate that they let us walk to the death.”
In the eyes of the prisoner Adem Durmuş, who is imprisoned in Samsun Bafra F-Type Closed Prison was not given treatment for the cataract disease on his left eye his left eye and now faces intraocular ossification.
It is learned that soldiers who raided a house in the morning in Çavuş village of Karayazı district of Erzurum tortured villagers in the house.