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‘Court of Cassation seems to be waiting for their death to announce its ruling’

ARRESTED LAWYERS ON A DEATH FAST

‘Court of Cassation seems to be waiting for their death to announce its ruling’

Nermin Ünsal, the mother and attorney of death fasting arrested lawyer Aytaç Ünsal, notes that their appeal has been awaiting a judgement for 5 months: “I think they are waiting for their death, delaying the judgement till the end of judicial recess.”

20 July 2020 Ayça Söylemez

‘What is the Court of Cassation waiting for,’ asks death-fasting arrested lawyer Ünsal

‘What is the Court of Cassation waiting for,’ asks death-fasting arrested lawyer Ünsal

On a death fast behind bars, lawyer Aytaç Ünsal has sent a note for Ebru Timtik, another death-fasting arrested lawyer: “Join your lives with hers! Ask them on the phone, by fax and on every platform possible… What is the Court of Cassation waiting for?”

16 July 2020 Ayça Söylemez

‘Ebru Timtik weighs less than 40 kilos on the 203rd day of her death fast’

ARRESTED LAWYERS ON DEATH FAST

‘Ebru Timtik weighs less than 40 kilos on the 203rd day of her death fast’

Speaking to bianet, lawyer Sevimli has said, “In the current situation, the risk of death is gradually getting higher” while main opposition CHP’s Bekaroğlu has noted that a public pressure is a must for the state to respond to death fasts.

13 July 2020 Ruken Tuncel

‘Ebru Timtik has black discoloration on her hands, Aytaç Ünsal has muscle loss’

ARRESTED LAWYERS ON DEATH FAST

‘Ebru Timtik has black discoloration on her hands, Aytaç Ünsal has muscle loss’

While arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik has been on a death fast for 200 days, Aytaç Ünsal has been on a death fast for 159 days. Having visited them in prison, lawyers say that Timtik has sores on her throat, Ünsal suffers from muscle loss.

10 July 2020 Ruken Tuncel

Protest for death-fasting arrested lawyers at Ankara Courthouse

Protest for death-fasting arrested lawyers at Ankara Courthouse

A group of lawyers have opened a banner of “Fair trial is a right, accept their demands” for lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on a death fast in prison for their right to a fair trial.

Aunt of death-fasting arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik arrested as well

Aunt of death-fasting arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik arrested as well

Sultan Kaya, the maternal aunt of death-fasting arrested lawyer Ebru Timtik, opened a banner to voice the demands of the ones on a death fast. Detained over this banner, she has been arrested because her detention was shared on social media.

1 July 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Grup Yorum Member İbrahim Gökçek Ends His Death Fast

Grup Yorum Member İbrahim Gökçek Ends His Death Fast

Grup Yorum music band has announced that its bass guitarist İbrahim Gökçek has ended his death fast on the 323rd day.

Letter from İbrahim Gökçek: Of Course, I Want to Live

Letter from İbrahim Gökçek: Of Course, I Want to Live

İbrahim Gökçek of the Grup Yorum music band has been on a death fast for 322 days, demanding the release of the band's members and the end of concert bans.

4 May 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Mustafa Koçak Dies on 297th Day of Death Fast

Mustafa Koçak Dies on 297th Day of Death Fast

Koçak (28) was on a death fast for a fair trial after having been convicted of aggravated life imprisonment.

Hunger Strikes Monitoring Committee Makes a Call to Authorities and Public

Hunger Strikes Monitoring Committee Makes a Call to Authorities and Public

In a statement for the press, Hunger Strikes Monitoring Committee has said, “The responsibility for the people forced to give their own lives by going on a hunger strike lies with the ones who rule the country.”

Koçak’s Weight Drops to 29 Kilos, He Awaits an Answer to His Request for Release

Koçak’s Weight Drops to 29 Kilos, He Awaits an Answer to His Request for Release

Mine Koçak, the sister of death fasting prisoner Mustafa Koçak: “Doctors say that his peripheral nervous system is damaged, that is why he cannot walk. We don’t know if he will walk ever again. It is enough for us if we can take him out of here alive.”

20 April 2020 Ayça Söylemez

2 Arrested Lawyers from Progressive Lawyers Association Go on a Death Fast

2 Arrested Lawyers from Progressive Lawyers Association Go on a Death Fast

The Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) has announced that arrested lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have turned their hunger strike into a death fast. While Timtik was on the 94th day of her hunger strike, Ünsal was on the 63rd day.

Death Fasting Grup Yorum Member Helin Bölek Loses Her Life

Death Fasting Grup Yorum Member Helin Bölek Loses Her Life

Grup Yorum music band member Helin Bölek has lost her life on the 288th day of her death fast.

Attorneys of Mustafa Koçak Apply to Constitutional Court, Request His Release

Attorneys of Mustafa Koçak Apply to Constitutional Court, Request His Release

Noting that the Court of Cassation is on leave due to the outbreak, the attorneys of death fasting prisoner Koçak have applied to the Constitutional Court with a medical report documenting that he was subjected to torture and “he cannot stay in prison.”

30 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Rights Defenders Meet Ministry for Hunger Strikers

Rights Defenders Meet Ministry for Hunger Strikers

Meeting with the Interior Ministry officials regarding the condition of hunger striking Grup Yorum members, Mustafa Koçak and lawyers, rights defenders have stated, “We are told that if they abandon their hunger strikes, their demands will be evaluated.”

Call for an Effective Investigation into Torture of Death Fasting Prisoner Mustafa Koçak

Call for an Effective Investigation into Torture of Death Fasting Prisoner Mustafa Koçak

After his attorney announced that death fasting prisoner Mustafa Koçak was subjected to torture and forced treatment, rights organizations have made a call for a medical examination by independent physicians and an effective investigation.

18 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Attorney: Death Fasting Inmate Subjected to Forced Intervention, Torture

Attorney: Death Fasting Inmate Subjected to Forced Intervention, Torture

Conducting a hunger strike for more than eight months, Mustafa Koçak was forcibly taken to the hospital on March 12.

Death-Fasting Grup Yorum Members Forcefully Hospitalized Because of 'Mental Defectiveness'

Death-Fasting Grup Yorum Members Forcefully Hospitalized Because of 'Mental Defectiveness'

Their attorneys say the two musicians who were taken to the hospital by the police yesterday had "clear conscience."

12 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members Bölek, Gökçek Hospitalized with a Police Raid

Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members Bölek, Gökçek Hospitalized with a Police Raid

Death fasting Grup Yorum music band members Helin Bölek and İbrahim Gökçek have been taken to a hospital with an ambulance after a police raid early in the morning.

Death Fasting Inmate Koçak: Living is Very Beautiful, I Don’t Want to Die

Death Fasting Inmate Koçak: Living is Very Beautiful, I Don’t Want to Die

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Court of the Cassation has demanded that the aggravated life sentence given to death fasting inmate Murat Koçak based on witness statements be upheld as “the evidence is legal.”

10 March 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Verdict of Release for Death Fasting Grup Yorum Guitarist İbrahim Gökçek

Verdict of Release for Death Fasting Grup Yorum Guitarist İbrahim Gökçek

Death fasting for 252 days and weighing only 46 kilograms now, Grup Yorum music band member İbrahim Gökçek has been released following an interim ruling based on a report by the Forensic Medicine Institute.

24 February 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Her Demands Met, Vegan Trans Inmate Ends Hunger Strike

Her Demands Met, Vegan Trans Inmate Ends Hunger Strike

Having gone on a hunger strike because she was insistently given non-vegan food in prison, vegan trans inmate İda Koçak has ended her hunger strike on the ninth day as her demands have been met.

24 February 2020

Vegan Trans Inmate on Hunger Strike

Vegan Trans Inmate on Hunger Strike

Trans activist Diren Coşkun has announced that vegan trans inmate İda Koçak has been on a hunger strike as she is insistently given non-vegan food in prison.

20 February 2020

‘Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members are in Critical Condition’

HDP TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

‘Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members are in Critical Condition’

HDP Foreign Affairs Commission has addressed an open letter to the international community, raising concerns over the critical condition of death fasting Grup Yorum music band members: “Hear the voices of hunger strikers and take immediate action.”

13 February 2020

Grup Yorum Music Band to Stand Trial

Grup Yorum Music Band to Stand Trial

Seven people, including Grup Yorum music band’s hunger striking member İbrahim Gökçek, will stand trial for the first time on February 14. Behind bars since March 1, 2019, Gökçek has been on a hunger strike for 238 days.

11 February 2020

‘We are All Parts of a Big Orchestra’

‘We are All Parts of a Big Orchestra’

On a death fast for 223 days, Mustafa Koçak has sent a letter from prison. “I am a tree, too… What I want you to do is to finally see how that tree walks day by day and how hope pours wherever it touches”, Koçak says.

10 February 2020 Ayça Söylemez

‘Lawyers on a Hunger Strike Against All Unlawful Acts in This Geography’

‘Lawyers on a Hunger Strike Against All Unlawful Acts in This Geography’

Human rights organizations and lawyers’ organizations have expressed solidarity and support for the lawyers of Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), who have recently announced that they have gone on a hunger strike.

7 February 2020 Ayça Söylemez

Eight Lawyers from ÇHD Begin Hunger Strike

Eight Lawyers from ÇHD Begin Hunger Strike

The ÇHD has stated that eight of their lawyers who are currently behind bars have begun a hunger strike.

5 February 2020

Joint Call for Grup Yorum: ‘Take Action Before It is Too Late’

Joint Call for Grup Yorum: ‘Take Action Before It is Too Late’

Releasing a statement on Grup Yorum music band, two members of which are on a death fast, four organizations, including İstanbul Bar Association, have called on authorities to take action before the process results in death.

20 January 2020

‘Wardens Insult Prisoners by Looking at Their Family Photos'

‘Wardens Insult Prisoners by Looking at Their Family Photos'

HDP Şırnak MP Hüseyin Kaçmaz has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the inmates who have gone on a hunger strike in Osmaniye Prison against ill treatment and violation of rights.

21 November 2019

Inmates of Osmaniye Prison on Hunger Strike for Their Legal Rights

Inmates of Osmaniye Prison on Hunger Strike for Their Legal Rights

Going on a hunger strike in Osmaniye No. 2 Type T Closed Prison, inmates have indicated that they are deprived of their legal rights, they are forced to be counted on foot and when they do not accept it, they are battered and face disciplinary investigations.

18 November 2019

Statement of Support for Grup Yorum Music Band by 134 Intellectuals

Statement of Support for Grup Yorum Music Band by 134 Intellectuals

134 politicians, journalists, writers and artists have released a joint statement of support for hunger striking Grup Yorum music band members: “Dictated by our conscience, we put our signatures under the legitimate demands of Grup Yorum.”

13 November 2019

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