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Activists of TJA stand trial today
The hearings of the trials opened against Free Women’s Movement (TJA) Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan and the movement’s activist Gülcihan Şimşek were held today. The court refused Ayşe Gökhan’s demand to make her defense in her mother language so she refused to defense to protest the court. TJA activist Gülcihan Şimşek has been sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.
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6 members of Mersin Women’s Platform fined 21.598 TL for protesting Turkey’s Withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Six members of Mersin Women’s Platform have been fined 21.598 Turkish Lira (nearly $2,700) for protesting Turkey’s Withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention by a Presidential decree. “They cannot discourage us by fining us,” said Çiğdem Serin, one of the six women.
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“The regime reshapes itself in an authoritarian manner “
“The declaration of a state of emergency is a temporal process, it is an extraordinary period. However, the current situation is now permanent. It will go nowhere, it is institutionalizing day by day. In other words, serious and permanent changes have been realized in the regime step by step. Now, we are talking about a more despotic, dictatorship regime,” says lawyer Gülseren Yoleri, chairperson of the Human Rights Association’s (İHD) İstanbul Branch.
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Iraq ends a historical discrimination against the gypsies : national identity without giving any information about their origin
The Gypsies have suffered many years of persecution and discrimination due to their names as gypsies on their identification documents, but the Iraqi government ends this discrimination by giving them national cards without making any reference to their origin.