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Happy May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Interphobia!
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Diyarbakır Bar Association over a statement it released on April 24, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Executives of the bar association are facing charges of “insulting the Turkish nation, the Turkish Republic, the state's institutions and organs.”
A group of workers on April 21 wanted to hold a press statement at Istanbul's Bakırköy Özgürlük (Freedom) Square for the May 1 Labor Day. However, they faced harsh police intervention, with images showing them being battered and repeatedly kicked on the ground.
Police detained dozens of women in early morning raids in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 5, including a reporter from Kurdish online news outlet Jinnews, representatives of political parties and the Rosa Women's Association.
Turkish police on April 5 detained dozens of women in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır in early morning raids, Mesopotamia Agency reported.
The undersigned organisations are deeply concerned about the prosecution of 46 participants of the “Saturday Mothers/People” weekly sit-ins in Istanbul, Turkey (Cumartesi Anneleri/İnsanları). The group consists of relatives of forcibly disappeared persons and other human rights defenders (HRDs), whose peaceful gathering in 2018 was violently dispersed, and for which they are now standing trial.
After Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention with a presidential decree, women and LGBTI+'s gather in Sakarya Square of Ankara.
Women and LGBTI+ people gathered in Sakarya Square on March 20 in Ankara after Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by presidential decree.
Detained on March 19, İHD Co-Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan has been released on probation.
An Istanbul court on March 17 released two Boğaziçi University students who are on trial for a poster depicting Islam’s most sacred site with LGBT flags during a protest against Erdoğan's appointment of a party loyalist as rector to the university. Five other students are also on trial with the two released. The next session in the case will be held in July.
Charged with "insulting the President" due to their slogans, 12 women have been taken into custody in İstanbul over the Feminist Night March held in the city on March 8 International Women’s Day. They have been referred to the prosecutor's office.
12 women who joined the Feminist Night March in İstanbul's Taksim on March 8 International Women's Day were taken into custody in a midnight operation conducted by the police today (March 11).
Taken into custody and summoned to depose for joining the 19th İstanbul Feminist Night March on March 8 Women's Day, 18 women charged with "insulting the President" have been released.
While an international travel ban has been imposed on all women, the Progressive Lawyers Association has announced that a judicial control measure of giving signatures has been imposed on four women.