Nuriye Gülmen and Rıdvan Akbaş detained
Taken into custody during the police raid at the İdil Cultural Centre, Nuriye Gülmen and Rıdvan Akbaş were arrested
Grup Yorum members detained during rehearsal
Grup Yorum members detained during a concert rehearsal in Istanbul
We asked specialists about the Social Media Proposal:
“There will be more restrictions and censorship, therefore reject the proposal categorically without further discussion regarding its content!”
LGBTI+ people at the center of daily politics: A short assessment of statements by top public officials
Attorney Polat Yamaner from the Access to Justice team of SPoD (Association for Social Policies on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation) reviewed the statements of top public officials and politicians in Turkey about LGBTI+ people from the viewpoint of political accountability and human rights law
İlhan Çomak trial: There is something rotten in Turkish law
Fırat Aydınkaya, the attorney of poet İlhan Çomak who has been imprisoned for a quarter of a century, writes in SUSMA about the ‘‘unjust’’ trial which has been continuing for 22 years
Company-prompted coronavirus censor on newspapers
Access was denied to news stories reporting that workers at the Oba Pasta factory in Gaziantep-Turkey had contracted the coronavirus on grounds that they “cause reputational damage”
Journalist Beritan Canözer sentenced to prison
Jinnews reporter Beritan Canözer was sentenced to 1 year, 10 months, and 15 days in prison for “spreading terrorist organization propaganda” in her social media posts
Court insists on sentence for musician Azad Bedran
Diyarbakır 8th Assize Court insisted on its sentence of 3 years and 9 months for Azad Bedran, charged with ‘propaganda for a terrorist organization’, despite the appeals court’s reversal of his conviction
İlhan Çomak: When in prison, poetry, too, is confined
“I have never self-censored my poetry, neither has my poetry ever been censored; to the contrary, I actually hear that many of the officials here, who are obligated to read my poetry, quite like it.” Ayşen Güven from Speak Up Platform spoke to the poet İlhan Çomak, who has been in prison for 26 years, about the prison conditions during the pandemic, the injustice he experienced, and his poems
Feminist writer Gülfer Akkaya files criminal complaint
Feminist writer Gülfer Akkaya, whom the social media account named “Jitem..” the acronym for Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism) threatened to kill, filed a criminal complaint with the Istanbul Courthouse