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Who is Meral Danış Beştaş?

Who is Meral Danış Beştaş?

People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Erzurum Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş became her party's co-mayoral candidate for İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in the local elections on March 31.

9 February 2024

Turkey's interior minister says May elections 'a political coup attempt by West'

Turkey's interior minister says May elections 'a political coup attempt by West'

Opposition politicians criticized Minister Soylu, saying his remarks show that the ruling party is aware that it will lose the elections.

28 April 2023 Ruken Tuncel,Nedim Türfent

$Senior HDP deputy left with fractured back after traffic accident during election campaign$

Senior HDP deputy left with fractured back after traffic accident during election campaign

Taken to Ankara from Erzurum by air ambulance, Danış-Beştaş was taken into surgery.

Exit from İstanbul Convention did not accelerate violence, according to ministry

Exit from İstanbul Convention did not accelerate violence, according to ministry

Two years ago, an opposition MP had submitted a parliamentary question as to why the convention was not being implemented. The ministry gave a response over one and a half years after Türkiye pulled out of the convention.

11 October 2022

Police officer threatens to kill HDP deputy as six party members detained

Police officer threatens to kill HDP deputy as six party members detained

Tensions rose after a group known as the "Diyarbakır families" attempted to leave a black wreath in front of the party's headquarters.

Court rejects the request for dropping charges against HDP MP Danış Beştaş

IN THE WAKE OF ECTHR RULING

Court rejects the request for dropping charges against HDP MP Danış Beştaş

The lawyers of HDP MP Meral Danış Beştaş requested that the charges faced by the lawmaker be dropped in line with the ruling of rights violation handed down by the ECtHR. The high criminal court in Diyarbakır has rejected this request.

Clothes not let in prison 'due to their color' worn by HDP MP at the Parliament

Clothes not let in prison 'due to their color' worn by HDP MP at the Parliament

HDP Group Deputy Chair Danış Beştaş wore the clothes not let in Elazığ Prison to be worn by jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Güven: “Prison administration said, ‘We cannot let the dress in in these colors’. Can a color be banned in a country? No, it cannot”.

HDP's Danış-Beştaş slams government over the 'gang of five' bill

HDP's Danış-Beştaş slams government over the 'gang of five' bill

"The oligarchs of the palace are buying one jet after another. There is the one percent living in luxury, and the people," Danış-Beştaş has said.

Hürmüz and Şimuni Diril Case: Still no indictment after two years

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

Hürmüz and Şimuni Diril Case: Still no indictment after two years

The Chaldean couple went missing in Turkey's southeast two years ago. Şimuni Diril's body was found, but Hürmüz Diril is still missing. HDP deputy Danış-Beştaş has submitted a motion regarding the issue.

24 January 2022

'Prisoners' right to conditional release violated'

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

'Prisoners' right to conditional release violated'

A prisoner says that the prison administration arbitrarily prevented his conditional release while releasing for others who had stood trial in the same case as him.

13 December 2021

Doctor allegedly threatens ill prisoner: ‘You will fall into my hands’

Doctor allegedly threatens ill prisoner: ‘You will fall into my hands’

HDP MP Meral Danış Beştaş has requested that the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission investigate the incident where Erdal Emeç, an ill prisoner held in Giresun Espiye Prison, was threatened and insulted by a physician.

26 October 2021

Summaries of proceedings against 4 MPs submitted to Parliament

Summaries of proceedings against 4 MPs submitted to Parliament

The summaries of proceedings seeking to lift the legislative immunity of HDP MPs Meral Danış Beştaş, Hüda Kaya and Garo Paylan and DBP MP Sali Aydeniz have been submitted to the Parliamentary Speaker’s Office.

HDP: Keeping Demirtaş in prison may have grave consequences

HDP: Keeping Demirtaş in prison may have grave consequences

The HDP wants a parliamentary session to discuss the action plan to be submitted to the CoE Committee of Ministers, which asked for the immediate release of the politician.

20 September 2021

HDP: Gergerlioğlu must be given back his MP status immediately

HDP: Gergerlioğlu must be given back his MP status immediately

HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Meral Danış Beştaş has underlined that all arrested HDP politicians must be released as per the ruling of rights violation given by the Constitutional Court for dismissed HDP MP Gergerlioğlu.

'Perpetrator killed Deniz while plainclothes police officers waiting at the door'

HDP MP KEMALBAY

'Perpetrator killed Deniz while plainclothes police officers waiting at the door'

HDP MPs Kemalbay and Danış-Beştaş have denounced the attack on HDP İzmir Provincial Organization building and the killing of party worker Deniz Poyraz. They have underlined that “the assailants are given sentences like rewards”.

17 June 2021 Evrim Kepenek

'It would be madness': Will HDP deputies be stripped of immunity?

'It would be madness': Will HDP deputies be stripped of immunity?

"Turkey's politics can't progress without the HDP. The HDP determines the direction of politics in Turkey. The elections in 2015, 2018 and 2019 have shown this," says MP Danış-Beştaş.

25 February 2021 Ruken Tuncel

Prosecutors seek lift of immunity for HDP co-chair, eight deputies over 2014 Kobanê protests

Prosecutors seek lift of immunity for HDP co-chair, eight deputies over 2014 Kobanê protests

Some 108 people are facing an aggravated life sentence for having allegedly orchestrated the 2014 protests in the predominantly Kurdish provinces.

19 February 2021

Gare killings: HDP demands transparency, responds to calls for its closure

Gare killings: HDP demands transparency, responds to calls for its closure

"We are facing a government that doesn't take responsibility. The government, which announces the good news when it succeeds, has the governor make a statement when it fails," Danış-Beştaş has said.

18 February 2021

HDP says government's silence shows who bugged its office

HDP says government's silence shows who bugged its office

The party announced on Tuesday that it found bugging devices in its İstanbul office.

10 December 2020

Mass detention of HDP politicians aimed at 'weakening the party before elections'

HDP MP DANIŞ-BEŞTAŞ

Mass detention of HDP politicians aimed at 'weakening the party before elections'

More than 80 members of the HDP, including mayors and former lawmakers, were detained today.

25 September 2020 Ruken Tuncel

HDP deputy calls on ECtHR President to reject honorary doctorate in Turkey

HDP deputy calls on ECtHR President to reject honorary doctorate in Turkey

ECtHR President Spano will come to Turkey tomorrow for a two-day visit, during which he will be given an honorary doctorate by İstanbul University.

2 September 2020

HDP: Bar associations bill aimed at 'making bars dysfunctional'

HDP: Bar associations bill aimed at 'making bars dysfunctional'

"The government is having the problem of not being able to exert influence on bars and professional organizations. For this reason, it wants to interfere with bars and their elections," HDP's Danış-Beştaş has said.

HDP says police tortured its member with dogs

HDP says police tortured its member with dogs

Sevil Rojbin Çetin was tortured for hours in her home in Diyarbakır by the special operations police during a raid, the HDP has stated.

HDP Arrives in Diyarbakır in 'March for Democracy'

HDP Arrives in Diyarbakır in 'March for Democracy'

Setting off from Hakkari, the eastern group has arrived in Diyarbakır while the other group is in İstanbul.

Constitutional Court Rejects Application on Cizre Basements

Constitutional Court Rejects Application on Cizre Basements

Constitutional Court has rejected HDP Group Deputy Chair Danış-Beştaş’s application regarding the violations of rights committed in Şırnak’s Cizre during the period of curfews on the ground of lack of venue and not exhausting all legal remedies.

17 April 2020 Ayça Söylemez

HDP MP Beştaş: Criminal Execution Bill Against Principle of Equality Before Law

HDP MP Beştaş: Criminal Execution Bill Against Principle of Equality Before Law

HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Beştaş has made remarks on the planned amendments to the law on criminal execution and the government's policies on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fate and Whereabouts of Mehmet Bal Unknown for 18 Days

Fate and Whereabouts of Mehmet Bal Unknown for 18 Days

The family of Mehmet Bal, whose fate and whereabouts have been unknown for 18 days now, have held a statement for the press at the Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Office.

10 February 2020 Evrim Kepenek,Eslem Kınay

Parliamentary Inquiry into ‘Inconsistent and Unlawful Judgements of Judicial Bodies’

Parliamentary Inquiry into ‘Inconsistent and Unlawful Judgements of Judicial Bodies’

Requesting a Parliamentary investigation into “the inconsistent and unlawful judgements of judicial bodies”, HDP MP Danış Beştaş has said, “We witness that the judicial mechanism does not fulfill its responsibility of abiding by the law.”

15 November 2019

HDP: Parliament Should Investigate Public Health Impairing Factors

HDP: Parliament Should Investigate Public Health Impairing Factors

Referring to Asst. Prof. Bülent Şık, who has been sentenced to prison for disclosing the results of cancer research conducted by Ministry of Health, HDP MP Danış Beştaş has requested a Parliamentary investigation into factors threatening public health.

27 September 2019

Ministry Returns Parliamentary Question on Imprisoned Student Korkmaz

Ministry Returns Parliamentary Question on Imprisoned Student Korkmaz

The Speaker’s Office has rejected HDP MP Meral Danış Beştaş’s Parliamentary question about imprisoned student Baran Barış Korkmaz, whose 59-year prison sentence has been recently upheld by the court of appeal.

17 September 2019

‘Growing Number of Torture Incidents’ on Parliamentary Agenda

‘Growing Number of Torture Incidents’ on Parliamentary Agenda

HDP MP Danış Beştaş has submitted a Parliamentary inquiry into the increasing number of torture incidents, stating that “in contrast to the government’s ‘zero tolerance to torture’ statements, torture has become widespread and, almost, legitimate.”

‘How Many People are Behind Bars for “Insulting the President”?’

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION BY HDP MP DANIŞ BEŞTAŞ

‘How Many People are Behind Bars for “Insulting the President”?’

Submitting a parliamentary question regarding the cases of insulting the President, HDP MP Danış Beştaş has referred to a citizen who was sentenced to 2 years, 4 months in prison for saying, “Forget about the gasoline, we have the most expensive President.”

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