Human Rights Association (İHD) Antalya Branch executive and All Pensioners’ Union board member Mehmet Şerif Özdemir, Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) member lawyer Kazım Yiğit, and All Municipal and Local Administration Services Workers’ Union (Tüm Bel-Sen) Antalya Branch Chair and KESK Branches Platform term spokesperson İlhan Karakurt were detained in house raids in Antalya on the morning of 3 November. Confidentiality orders were imposed on the files. Tüm Bel-Sen described the operation ahead of the COP31 Climate Summit planned for 9–20 November in Antalya as intimidation against union struggle and social opposition and called for the detainees’ immediate release. Authorities did not state that there was any connection between the detentions and the climate summit.
3 November 2026
Bianet