On the night of November 4, the Turkish authorities blocked access to all social networking sites and email. According to reports from Turkey, access to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Skype and YouTube has been blocked.
According to local observers, the event is associated with the measures of the authorities against several pro-Kurdish leaders and the attacks that happened later.
Yesterday the authorities arrested 11 MPs from the pro-Kurdish Party for Democracy of Peoples headed by its leader Demirtash and accused them of having links with PKK (Kurdish Workers Party).
Ankara has not yet made official statements about the reason for blocking social networks. -02B-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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