Women participated in March 8 rally detained
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- 09:37 11/3/2021
Many women were detained on the grounds that they participated in the 19th Feminist Night March in Taksim on 8 March.
Many women were detained on the grounds that they participated in the 19th Feminist Night March in Taksim on 8 March.
Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary at Unite the Union, one of the leaders of the freedom campaign for PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, said that they will speed up the campaign and added, "Öcalan will not be left alone on that island."
European parliamentarians launched a campaign for the release of HDP’s former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been in prison for 4 years.
Burcugül Çubuk, who has been under house arrest for a month and has an ankle bracelet, announced she ended her house arrest on March 8, International Women's Day.
Önkol lost her life in an explosion when she was pasturing animals in Diyarbakır in 2009.A court has found that the Ministry of Interior was culpable for the death of Ceylan Önkol in the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province in 2009 and ordered it to pay 283,000 lira (~37,490 USD) for material and immaterial damages.
Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform shared its message for March 8 International Women's Day and said: "Resistence makes the women more beautufil, changes the world and it remains for us to note it in history."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that two chief inspectors were appointed to "investigate whether there was any negligence or intention in showing the three crescent tattoo on the hand of the perpetrator who killed 92 year old women in Aydın.
The hunger strike prisoners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 102. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 81 while it is day 64 in Greece.
CAVI Spokesperson Rouhii Shafii who attended the March 8 rally back in 1979 without having to wear hijabs asked, "Well, my friend, here we are at the end of your questions and still many questions remain unanswered. For example, why did we Iranians make such a huge historical mistake and brought about an Islamic regime into power which recked our prospering country and made us the laughing stock of the world? And why do you the people of Turkey whose country was a secular state with much scope to join the EU and get out of the orbit of backwardness suddenly got a regime which has stayed for so long and changed your way of life towards what we call a historical catastrophe? "
Responding to the parliamentary question tabled by HDP's Ayşe Acar Başaran, Ministry of Justice stated that the isolation and violations of rights are within the scope of “questions that cannot be asked”.
In the trial of public officials over the killing of journalist Hrant Dink, the final hearing has been adjourned until March 26 as one of the judges was on leave with a medical report.
Two more people have been remanded in custody in the operation targeting MEBYA-DER, an association of solidarity for families who have lost relatives.
All roads leading to HDP Van Provincial Organization building was blockaded by the police. While pedestrians are not allowed to cross, the administrators called the people to the party.
The hunger strike prisoners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 99. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 78 while it is day 61 in Greece.
The hearings in two trials of the opposition Özgür Gündem Newspaper were held at Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance. The next hearings in both trials were postponed to 13 July.