TURKEY

HDP prepared a report about Silvan and Nusaybin. According to the report, in the last 6 months, there have been 117 days of curfews and 147 people were killed since June 7.

HDP's group deputy chairman İdris Baluken demanded a parliamentary investigation on the murder of Tahir Elçi.

Turkish Ministry of Education (MEB) reminded the Armenian question with two questions in high school entrance exam.

Rezoning in Historical Peninsula that made possible to build boutique hotels there is approved by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Council despite the objections of the experts. According to this decision, boutique hotels will be built within historical part of Eminönü.

Diplomatic crisis that started with the downing of Russian warplane by Turkish forces continues. During the day, statements from Turkey and Russia have been made one after the other.

In Turkey, where at least 1134 women were murdered between 2010 and 2015, “dying the hair”, “buying new clothes”, “not cooking meatballs”, “not passing the salt” or just “being annoyed” were used as excuses for femicide. Murderers are the husbands, boyfriends, fathers, sons, brother of those women; in short, they are killed by their relatives.

Near Turkey’s border with Syria, a Russian warplane is crashed. The warplane is made crash by Turkey’s fighter jets on the grounds that it violated the airspace of Turkey.

A mark in the armed car that is assigned to HDP’s co-chair Demirtaş brought about questions concerning an attempted assassination. The police said that it might be a bullet mark, whereas the governorship stated that it is not caused by a firearm.

Speaking at the opening of “A Civilization Destroyed: The Wealth of Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Period and the Early Republican Era” conference, Rakel Dink said, “On the territory that we are living together now, an ancient civilization was scattered a century ago. And today again, some wish to wipe off some ancient cultures… Only if we could correctly transfer what happened in the past, we would be able to see clearly what is happening today and the facts behind it…”