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The Radio and Television Supreme Council has ruled that Rudaw TV, K24 TV and Waar TV be removed from Türksat.
As the voting continues in the independence referendum held by the Iraqi Kurdistan region, the RTÜK decided to hold an extraordinary session.
All three TV channels are broadcasting in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and they were broadcasting through Türksat in Turkey. (HK/TK)
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Spokesperson for Federal Government Steffen Seibert, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dilek Mayatürk Yücel’s official meeting has been announced on Twitter. Seibert stated that Merkel and Yücel discussed detention conditions of Deniz Yücel for whom an indictment hasn’t been prepared for eight months.
Die Welt correspondent to Turkey Deniz Yücel was detained on February 14 in the investigation launched into the news reports e-mail leakage of Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak, and was arrested on February 27.
Deniz Yücel has been behind bars since February 27. Upon an application submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, the court had granted Turkey an extension of time for government of Turkey to send its statement of defense.
The extension ended on Monday (October 23).
As part of the investigation in which Yücel was detained, Diken’s former editor Tunca Öğreten, closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA) News Director Ömer Çelik, BirGün daily newspaper staff Mahir Kanaat have been detained on remand; DİHA correspondent Metin Yoksu, Yolculuk newspaper Editor-in-Chief Eray Sargın and ETHA Managing Editor Derya Okatan appeared before court for the first time yesterday (October 24).
Ömer was released on probation. The next hearing was adjourned to December 6. (PT/TK)
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The Ministry of Interior has made a press statement about a report titled “Those who have been displaced and dispossessed: Sur residents’ rights to return home” prepared by the Amnesty on December 6, 2016.
The Ministry in its statement remarked that the report “doesn’t reflect the truth”.
“Carrying out anti-terror activities within the frame of legal principles, and norms and standards of human rights documents, Turkey has become a target of baseless claims as a result of PKK terror organization’s propaganda.
“The measures taken as part of fighting terrorism in Turkey are legitimate, necessary and proportionate to protect its citizens from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)”, the statement said.
A curfew declared in Turkey’s southeastern Sur district in Diyarbakır province on December 2, 2015 still continues in six neighborhoods. No one is left in the six neighborhood. Operations had commenced with the declaration of the curfew.
The Amnesty’s report had said that “Estimated 500,000 people including tens of thousands of Sur residents were displaced as a result of Turkey’s authorities’ merciless crackdowns that lead to mass punishment”.
The report also noted that 500,000 people have been forced to immigrate and that the displaced people couldn’t find sufficient affordable housing and had difficulties in accessing to basic services. (AS/TK)