In this issue of saha, we try to focus on the last cross-section of the Turkish universities’ journey.
In this issue of saha we focus on the landscape occurring with the pandemic and its projections in the context of Turkey.
In the 1st Working Meeting held in Istanbul on 21 June 2019, the issues that occupy citizens and are expected to affect public policies, the need for participation and methods of involvement, the problems regarding access to food and alternative solutions for these problems and the topics that could be brought to the agenda of public institutions were discussed.
The Opening (Kick-off) meeting of our project, which aims to support the participation of citizens in public policies and democratic management processes by establishing certain strategies and advocacy methods, in order to strengthen the cooperation between the public and non-governmental organizations, to increase the efficiency and service quality of non-governmental organizations, was held in Ankara on 11-12 July 2019.
As part of our “Citizens' Say on Local and Regional Public Policies” study, we held a Civil Society Workshop at Bursa Nilüfer Municipality Karaman Associations Campus on Saturday, December 21, 2019.
As part of our “Citizens' Say on Local and Regional Public Policies” study, we held a Civil Society Workshop at the Edirne Municipality's New Wedding Hall (Old Electricity Factory) on Saturday, December 7, 2019.
In the workshop where the representatives of civil society, especially in Çanakkale, Marmara Basin and surrounding provinces are invited; the agendas of citizens and civil society in the basin scale, the monitoring of public policies within the context of these agendas, citizen participation in public policies and the evaluation of agriculture and food policies in the basin was discussed.
Letter to the European Committee for Precention of Torture from Human Rights Organisations in Turkey
It was stated by lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan who has been held at the High Security F Type Prison in Imralı that he has been neither allowed to contact his lawyers for a long time, nor demands of his family members to visit are met. Ms Leyla Güven, Hakkari Deputy of the People’s Democratic Party, initiated an indefinite and with no alternate hunger strike to protest this situation on 8 November 2018 when she was detained at Diyarbakır E Type Prison.
The investigation concerning the Gezi protests of 2013 has been concluded, and 16 persons, including Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu, who have both been detained pending trial, were indicted. It has been announced that the indictment was accepted on March 4, 2019 by Istanbul 30th High Criminal Court and the first hearing will be held on June 24-25, 2019.
In response to the absurd allegations levelled against Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu, who are both imprisoned pending trial, as well as 14 other civil society figures, all of whom are accused of “attempting to overthrow the government”, we, the undersigned human rights organizations, call for the escalating crackdown on and criminalization of civil society to end.
Citizens’ Assembly (Ca) is actively looking for a full time Advocacy/Publications Manager to be employed in a newly-started two year project, to start immediately.
The project focuses on supporting civic engagement and democratic governance on local/regional and macro level public policy processes, which are ongoing across three water basins in Turkey, the Meriç-Ergene, Marmara and Susurluk. It is funded by the European Union, under the framework of the Instrument for Pre-accession (IPA) Phase II.
The right to defend our rights is a fundamental right. We demand the release of rights defenders and revocation of the investigations and cases filed against them!
