İzmir Bar Association condemns the prevention of the right to recieve news
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- 13:05 17/4/2020
İzmir Bar Association reacted against the broadcast ban and the fine on Fox TV.
İzmir Bar Association reacted against the broadcast ban and the fine on Fox TV.
The number of people who died due to the coronavirus epidemic has exceeded 146 thousand and the number of cases has exceeded 2 million 184 thousand. Turkey is catching up with China and Iran as its number of cases increase on a daily basis.
In the report prepared by KESK on hospitals in Ankara, it was stated that the healthcare workers who were diagnosed with Covid- 19 are being summoned back to work before their treatment and 14 days of quarantine ends.
IBB President Ekrem İmamoglu announced that an investigation was launched against him and Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş by the Interior Ministry due to their aid campaign.
HDP Ankara Provincial Co-chair Vezir Coşkun Parlak, who said that they brought 53 families together with their twins in Ankara, said: "Those who want to support our campaign should reach us as soon as possible because your twin family is waiting for you."
The request for release of arrested journalists Ferhat Çelik, Aydın Keser, Barış Pehlivan, Barış Terkoğlu, Hülya Kılınç and Murat Ağırel has been rejected. Çelik and Keser are not mentioned by name in the judgement.
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Turkish occupation army's bombing of the martyr Rustem Judi (Maxmur) camp in Hewler Governorate, which resulted in martyring of 3 women.
1,643 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 74,193 cases have been recorded.
HDK Ecology Council underlined the importance of developing solidarity networks to face the coronavirus pandemic and added that this is the basic form of organization for the protection and promotion of social rights.
In the case where Cemal Özdemir, the Co-Mayor of Sur Municipality being tried with the claim of 'membership of an illegal organization', a release order was issued. Following the appointment of a trustee on December 21, 2019; Özdemir was arrested and sent to Erzurum Type H Prison.
Spokesperson for the Iraqi Army Evdilkerim Xelef reacted to the attack on the Mamur Camp, where 3 women died, and stated that Ankara should be held accountable.
The bill on economic measures against coronavirus outbreak, which is also referred to as the 'bill of misery', has passed the General Assembly of the Parliament and has become a law. Accordingly, employers have been granted the right to give workers unpaid leave.
Hasan Koçak, father of Mustafa Koçak on death fast demanding fair trial for 289 days, said: "My son told me he can no longer walk on the phone the last time we spoke."
Sharing the information that their band member İbrahim Gökçek, who is on a death fast for 304 days is detoriorating day by day, Grup Yorum member Seher Adıgüzel said Gökçek is resisting to stay alive.
European Parliament standing rapporteur on Turkey, Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, ES), and Chair of the European Parliament's Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, DE), said in a joint statement: "The legal amendments by the Turkish Parliament allowing the release of 90.000 prisoners, but excluding those imprisoned for their political activities and citizens in pre-trial detention, is a great disappointment."