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Özgür Gelecek reporter Perihan Sevda Erkılınç, detained on charges of membership in an illegal organization, was released at her first hearing. Journalist Rahime Karvar, however, was sentenced to 1 year and 13 months on the same charge.
Bail requests for jailed former Diyarbakır co-mayor Selçuk Mızraklı and urban planner Tayfun Kahraman, sentenced to 18 years in the Gezi Park case, were rejected again.
Kadınlar Birlikte Güçlü (Women Are Strong Together) protested on Istiklal Avenue after three girls and three women workers were killed in a fire at the Ravive Cosmetics perfume filling plant in Dilovası, Kocaeli.
“This was no accident, no act of God. Women and girls died because greedy factory owners and public officials who ignored complaints filed through the Presidency’s Communication Center (CİMER) worked hand in hand. We don’t want to stop this cycle; we want to break it.”
In the explosion that killed three girls and three women workers at the Ravive Cosmetics plant, shift supervisor Tuncay Yıldız was seriously injured but escaped. He later died in the hospital, bringing the death toll to seven.
Four university students arrested for protesting the incident have been released.
Fourteen-year-old agricultural worker Nursefa Samur was killed when a combine harvester ran her over while harvesting sunflowers with her family.
Sixteen-year-old high school student Alperen Uygun died after falling from the third floor of a construction site into an elevator shaft. According to Health and Safety Labour Watch, child worker deaths this year have now risen to 78, revised three times in the past six days.
The indictment in the corruption investigation targeting Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, where Ekrem İmamoğlu is also detained, has been finalized. Spanning roughly 4,000 pages, it lists 402 suspects, 105 of whom are in custody. İmamoğlu, accused of 142 acts, faces 828 to 2,352 years in prison. Charges include establishing and managing a criminal organization, and accepting or giving bribes. The indictment also accuses him of “taking over the CHP” and “forming an organization to raise funds for nominating a presidential candidate.”
Azerbaijani activist Nanaxanım Babazade (Nana), detained at her workplace and missing for days, was transferred to the Çatalca Deportation Center. The Istanbul University anthropology student, held since August 21 and subjected to weeks of mistreatment, was deported about three weeks ago. Nana later told journalist Yusuf Çelik that she had safely left Azerbaijan.
On a flight back from Baku, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan again targeted LGBTQ+ people in response to a question about the Year of the Family:
“Just as we strengthen our defense industry and cybersecurity, we must protect our families from new-generation attacks. The Year of the Family aims to safeguard the family’s role in Turkey. To this end, we will never allow perversions such as LGBT. A strong family institution strengthens society, and we will take even firmer steps toward the future.”
University student Melisa Şengül was found dead at a friend’s house in Aydın, the third suspicious female death in the city this year.
Melisa Aydındalp, known for her activism on women’s and LGBT+ rights, recently protested the 11th Judicial Package, which targets these groups. Banners read “No passage for the 11th Judicial Package” and “It is not women who corrupt society’s morals, but your patriarchal system.”
She said: “The hatred and discrimination presented as the ‘11th Judicial Package’ will never intimidate us. This package aims to make women’s and LGBT+ lives unbearable. You want to criminalize sexual orientation. These criminal references should target perpetrators of crimes against women and children, not those who want to live freely.”
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In the collapse that occurred during concrete pouring at a single-story construction site in Urfa, two of five workers trapped under soil and iron died, and three were injured. In the same city, a 15-year-old apprentice was tortured with a high-pressure compressor by two coworkers who tied his hands. One of the suspects, Habib A., was released after giving a statement. Following backlash on social media, a detention warrant was issued for the suspect, who was arrested and jailed. The child who had been tortured passed away yesterday (November 19) at the hospital where he was being treated.
A new supplementary report from the Forensic Medicine Institute confirms that the DNA found on university student Rojin Kabaiş’s body, whose death is considered suspicious, was not “contaminated,” as her family and activists claimed. The prosecutor’s office will now conduct DNA comparisons on the suspects.
Compiled @bawerella
Translated by @mercanbaska
