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
Once again the Governorate denies permission to Grup Yorum concert
Grup Yorum denied the news that their application to İstanbul Governorate for a concert had been approved
7 thousand 127 social media accounts under ministerial surveillance
According to a written statement by İsmail Çataklı, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior, 7 thousand 127 accounts posting about the coronavirus have been placed under surveillance, 1058 social media users have been identified, 496 users have been taken into custody. 10 people have been arrested in the scope of the same operation
TMA reports: process is not managed transparently!
In a report on the second month of the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey, The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) underlines that the true impact of the pandemic cannot be assessed as the entire process has not been managed transparently
Writer and politician Mahmut Alınak gets released
Mahmut Alınak, Kurdish writer and politician, was released at the first hearing of the case brought against him with a motion for life in imprisonment. Alınak had been in prison for two months