Ministry of the Interior made a criminal complaint against Republican People’s Party (CHP) member Ramazan Ismail Uygur, who won the local elections in Torbalı district of Izmir, due to the speech he gave during the handover ceremony.
The 2019 Freedom of Expression Awards of Index on Censorship were given with a ceremony organized in London.
A lawsuit was filed against the protest of TEKEL workers, who were fired following privatization, organized ten years ago in Ankara.
A summary was prepared against People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır MP Imam Taşçıer.
The Governorate in Iğdır banned all meetings and demonstrations for 15 days in order to “prevent provocative protests.
İbrahim Yılmazcan, who was elected as mayor from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Pazarcık district of Kahramanmaraş, cancelled the theater play “Duvar” by Muzaffer İzgü.
In the lawsuit with Özgür Gündem Substitute Editors-In-Chief on trial due to “making terrorist organization propaganda,” eight journalists and writers and one person, whose letter written from prison was published, were sentenced to imprisonment.
The Governorate in Muş banned all meetings, demonstrations and press statements for 15 days after the objection of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) against local election results.
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