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Unpaid Erasmus grants totaling over 120,000 euros for 21 students spark investigation

Unpaid Erasmus grants totaling over 120,000 euros for 21 students spark investigation

A CHP deputy has submitted a parliamentary question to the education minister, asking to clarfiy the matter.

24 October 2023 Yakup Önal

Plight of severely ill prisoner on parliamentary agenda

Plight of severely ill prisoner on parliamentary agenda

A 27-year-old woman is kept behind bars despite suffering from severe heart and high blood pressure conditions, along with a herniated disc.

Summer water cuts in prison in one of Turkey's hottest cities trouble prisoners

Summer water cuts in prison in one of Turkey's hottest cities trouble prisoners

A Green Left MP has addressed the issue at the parliament, submitting a prliamentary question to the justice minister.

Prisoners put in punishment cell allegedly for 'writing book in Kurdish'

Prisoners put in punishment cell allegedly for 'writing book in Kurdish'

An HDP deputy has brought two separate cases of rights violations into the parliamentary agenda.

Remarks of senior diplomat about killing of Kurdish journalist on parliamentary agenda

Remarks of senior diplomat about killing of Kurdish journalist on parliamentary agenda

Responding to a question about the killing of Nagihan Akarsel in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Türkiye's ambassador to Iraq had said, "The PKK and centers with connections to the PKK are targets."

11 October 2022

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

Suspicious death in Diyarbakır Prison

Suspicious death in Diyarbakır Prison

HDP deputy Remziye Tosun has submitted a parliamentary question about a prisoner's recent death.

7 September 2022

Ill prisoner catches Covid twice

Ill prisoner catches Covid twice

HDP deputy Abdullah Koç has submitted a parliamentary question about the situation of ill prisoner Suat Oğuz.

Ministry: Turkey hit by 1,171 forest fires in summer 2021

CHP MP ASKED

Ministry: Turkey hit by 1,171 forest fires in summer 2021

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has announced that 118,415 hectares of forestland were damaged in the fires last summer.

Electricity bills in Turkey’s prisons on Parliamentary agenda

Electricity bills in Turkey’s prisons on Parliamentary agenda

Main opposition CHP MP Hakverdi has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the fact that prisoners are made to pay high electricity bills in prison and their bills have tripled following the recent price increases.

‘As the number of physicians drops, Turkey calls retired physicians to duty’

‘As the number of physicians drops, Turkey calls retired physicians to duty’

Submitting a Parliamentary question, HDP MP Turan says, “As the employment of physicians has fallen short for reasons of violence, harsh working conditions and insufficient employee personal rights, retired physicians have been called to duty again”.

Rights organization raises concerns about ‘mouth search’ in prison

Rights organization raises concerns about ‘mouth search’ in prison

Lawyers from the Prisons Commission of the Human Rights Association (İHD) Adana Branch visited the Kürkçüler Type F Closed Prison, met with nine prisoners and prepared a report based on their accounts and observations.

24 February 2022

Forests the size of 3,000 football fields razed in wildfires in Turkey in 2020

Forests the size of 3,000 football fields razed in wildfires in Turkey in 2020

Answering the Parliamentary question of an MP, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Pakdemirli has said that two amphibians and 27 firefighting helicopters were used in efforts to put out 3,399 forest fires that broke out in Turkey in 2020.

10 February 2022

‘Does Ministry of Labor make any attempts to learn from workers what they want?’

HDP TO MINISTER

‘Does Ministry of Labor make any attempts to learn from workers what they want?’

HDP Adana MP Tülay Hatimoğulları has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Labor and Social Security Bilgin regarding the workers’ protests ongoing across Turkey for the past month.

10 February 2022

Opposition MPs criticize decision to deport refugees over İstanbul Convention protests

Opposition MPs criticize decision to deport refugees over İstanbul Convention protests

Main opposition CHP MP Yüceer and HDP MP Gülüm have submitted Parliamentary questions, reminding the Vice President and the Interior Minister about Iran’s unlawful practices against women and stressing that Turkey’s decision is not lawful.

8 February 2022

Ministry 'doesn't know' number of child workers in Turkey

Ministry 'doesn't know' number of child workers in Turkey

Responding to a parliamentary question, the minister of family and social services did not disclose the number of child workers in Turkey.

1 February 2022 Hikmet Adal

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

HDP requests parliamentary inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink

HDP requests parliamentary inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink

It has been 15 years since the killing of Hrant Dink in İstanbul. Those who organized the assassination have not been brought to justice, says the HDP.

19 January 2022

Former co-mayor Narin had a heart attack in prison

Former co-mayor Narin had a heart attack in prison

HDP Diyarbakır MP Taşçıer has submitted a Parliamentary question about Seyit Narin, a former Co-Mayor of Sur district who got sick in prison and whose request for being transferred from Rize to Diyarbakır, where his family lives, has been rejected.

17 January 2022

One out of every three ‘spies’ caught in Germany is from Turkey

One out of every three ‘spies’ caught in Germany is from Turkey

The government has answered the Parliamentary question of Left Party (Die Linke) MP Sevim Dağdelen in Germany and said that there is an increase in Ankara’s “espionage” activities against dissidents from Turkey. Dağdelen herself is also targeted.

‘Police raid on wrong house’ taken to Parliamentary agenda

‘Police raid on wrong house’ taken to Parliamentary agenda

HDP Mersin MP Turan has indicated that the Yolgın family were subjected to violence though they objected to the police, saying that “they came to the wrong house” for the raid. Turan has also applied to the Human Rights Commission.

'More than 1,000 women kidnapped in Syria's Afrin since Turkey's capture'

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

'More than 1,000 women kidnapped in Syria's Afrin since Turkey's capture'

"Afrin has become a center of looting, robbery, rape and ethnic cleansing," MP Uca has said.

15 December 2021

‘Economic crisis, poverty push people to religious cults’ courses, dorms in Turkey’

HDP’S OYA ERSOY

‘Economic crisis, poverty push people to religious cults’ courses, dorms in Turkey’

HDP İstanbul MP Ersoy has submitted a Parliamentary question to Vice President Fuat Oktay and asked him about the sexual abuse of seven children at a boarding Quran course in Turkey’s eastern province of Erzurum.

15 December 2021

'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

Ban on Kurdish theater play brought to Parliamentary agenda

Ban on Kurdish theater play brought to Parliamentary agenda

HDP MP Dündar has recalled that the ban on meetings and demonstrations imposed once every 15 days in the province has been cited by the Mardin Governor’s Office as the reason for the ban on the “Tartuffe” theater play to be staged in Kurdish.

7 December 2021

HDP brings Çetin Kaya's 'killing' by the police to Parliamentary agenda

HDP brings Çetin Kaya's 'killing' by the police to Parliamentary agenda

HDP’s Ersoy says that while Kaya was handcuffed behind his back and shot in the back of his head at close range, “the city surveillance cameras were not recording” in the meantime as in the case of several files where the police are perpetrators.

3 December 2021

Only 16 percent of workers are women at Turkey’s eight ministries

Only 16 percent of workers are women at Turkey’s eight ministries

The number of women working at the ministries of environment and urbanization, energy and natural resources, treasury and finance, interior, agriculture and forestry and trade is lower than half of the men.

8 November 2021

Turkey’s fire-fighting efforts: 3 planes, 39 helicopters

Turkey’s fire-fighting efforts: 3 planes, 39 helicopters

Answering the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Atila Sertel on forest fires, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has defended giving guaranteed hours of flight for the rented helicopters and planes.

3 November 2021

Enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun: Perpetrators protected by ‘privacy’

Enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun: Perpetrators protected by ‘privacy’

It has been 26 years since the enforced disappearance of Fehmi Tosun. Due to the “privacy of private life”, it is still not unveiled under whose name the vehicle that abducted Tosun was registered.

1 November 2021

Parliamentary questions on assistant physicians’ work conditions left unanswered

Parliamentary questions on assistant physicians’ work conditions left unanswered

Five different Parliamentary questions addressed to Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca about the working conditions of assistant physicians have been left unanswered.

26 October 2021

Erdoğan’s promise to open a thousand markets and questions left unanswered

Erdoğan’s promise to open a thousand markets and questions left unanswered

Main opposition CHP MP Gürer has raised concerns that the loss made by the Agricultural Credit markets increased from 990 thousand Turkish Lira (TRY) in 2018 to 41 million TRY in 2019, which marked a 40-fold increase.

HDP brings Pandora Papers into Turkey's Parliamentary agenda

HDP brings Pandora Papers into Turkey's Parliamentary agenda

HDP MP Garo Paylan has recalled that there are allegedly 220 names from Turkey mentioned in the Pandora Papers: “Will you launch an investigation against the contractor who transferred what he had earned from the Palace to a tax haven?”

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