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Metin Lokumcu case: What will happen now?

Metin Lokumcu case: What will happen now?

Retired teacher Metin Lokumcu’s son Ulaş Lokumcu and lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu have spoken to bianet about the trial over the death of Metin Lokumcu, who lost his life after being affected by the pepper gas used during a police intervention into a protest.

30 July 2021 Evrim Kepenek

Police officer makes defense: I am the bottom of the hierarchy

VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALIST

Police officer makes defense: I am the bottom of the hierarchy

In the trial of the police officers who battered journalist Beyza Kural during news follow-up, telling her, “Nothing is the same anymore, we will make you learn it,” the defendants made contradictory statements at the first hearing today, on June 23.

Feminist lawyers apply to Constitutional Court for Nevin Yıldırım

Feminist lawyers apply to Constitutional Court for Nevin Yıldırım

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation previously appealed against the life sentence given to Nevin Yıldırım for “killing” Nurettin Gider, who had sexually assaulted her. The lawyers have demanded “urgent release.”

18 May 2021 Evrim Kepenek

A struggle for a permanent press card

A struggle for a permanent press card

"On the one hand, there are hundreds of journalists whose press cards are not given, and on the other hand, there are those who work at ministries and are made 'journalists'," says Nadire Mater.

9 April 2021 Hikmet Adal

‘This Constitutional Court ruling is a precedent for all journalists’

LAWYER MERİÇ EYÜBOĞLU

‘This Constitutional Court ruling is a precedent for all journalists’

Meriç Eyüboğlu, the attorney of former bianet reporter Beyza Kural, has spoken to bianet about the Constitutional Court’s ruling of right violation given for the police violence that Kural was subjected to while covering a students’ protest in 2015.

23 February 2021 Ayça Söylemez

Constitutional Court: Right to Assembly and Demonstration Violated on May Day in 2009

ATTORNEY MERİÇ EYÜBOĞLU COMMENTS FOR BİANET

Constitutional Court: Right to Assembly and Demonstration Violated on May Day in 2009

Commenting on the verdict of right violation given by the Constitutional Court for the police violence on May Day in 2009, attorney Eyüboğlu has criticized that the ruling has failed to address the use of chemical gas during the intervention.

13 September 2019 Pınar Tarcan

They Are Doing Feminism Here, Your Honor!

They Are Doing Feminism Here, Your Honor!

It is not easy being a women rights advocate. They are confronted by violent men, their relatives, advocates and people of law as a whole. They are sometimes accused of feminism and other times of turning the courtroom into a women’s TV show...

25 November 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu