Negative content and risks that children may encounter in the digital environment are closely monitored by the Social Media Working Group within the Ministry. Following the monitoring process, blocking and removal operations are carried out on the internet and social media for content containing neglect, abuse and criminal elements that may negatively affect children’s development. Psychosocial support is also provided for children who are identified as being exposed to risk. Through the Working Group, interventions were made to remove or block 136 contents in the first 3 months of the year and a total of 3,040 to date. In this process, the Social Media Working Group cooperates with the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK), the General Directorate of Security, Department of Combating Cyber ​​Crimes and the Radio and Television Supreme Council, as well as the judicial authorities. The Working Group identifies content in digital media and social media that harms the family and social structure, is contrary to general moral rules and may negatively affect children’s development. A request was made to BTK to block access in accordance with Law No. 5651 on the grounds that viewing these contents by children may negatively affect their psychosocial development and the necessary action was taken.

Mustafa Türkay Sonel, son of then Governor Tuncay Sonel, was arrested with 10 people along with him during the Gülistan Doku investigation, which has not been heard from since January 5, 2020 in Tunceli. The statement given by Sonel, who was arrested for “Deliberate Murder”, was revealed. Questions were asked to Sonel about his telephone base records and the PTS records of the car he was driving. Giving inconsistency and contradictory answers, Sonel both accused his closest friends of using drugs and said about the Doku family, “I am not angry with the Doku family because they have pain.” He made a brazen statement. In the letter of arrest for Sonel, who described himself as a ‘student’ and ‘pet lover’, it was stated that there was “strong suspicion of crime”. In his statement, Sonel claimed that he did not know either Gülistan Doku or her boyfriend Zeinal Abakarov. The most critical moment of the interrogation was about December 27, 2019, when Gülistan Doku was allegedly sexually abused in a Youth Center. While the narrowed base reports showed Sonel in the Youth Center building that day, at that time, Sonel’s answer was one of the most striking points of the statement: “I don’t remember exactly whether I went to the youth center or not, but I probably didn’t.” This “vague defense” of Sonel, who both declared that he did not remember being at the scene and immediately assumed that he “did not leave”, was interpreted as an effort to blur his existence, supported by technical data.

HE ACCUSED HIS FRIENDS
In his statement, Sonel described his high school friends, Umut Altaş and Ekincan Kılıç, with whom he was close enough to visit him in Istanbul, as drug users. It was noteworthy that Sonel, who was knowledgeable enough to know the places where his friends dumped their drug materials, tried to position himself completely outside of this picture despite being in the same group for years. In the PTS records at the entrances and exits of the city, suspect Sonel was also asked questions about the movements of the vehicle he was using with plate number 06 SNL 10. Sonel avoided answering and said, “I have no idea.” he replied. In particular, he could not provide a clear explanation for the re-entry from Elazığ direction without showing the exit record from Tunceli. On the other hand, the police proceedings against former Tunceli Governor Tuncay Sonel, who was detained on April 17 within the scope of the investigation, are continuing. Sonel’s detention period was extended.

HE WAS ARRESTED ON STRONG SUSPICION OF A CRIME
After his statement, the suspect Mustafa Türkay Sonel (26) was referred to the court with the prosecutor’s request for arrest. In the referral letter; It was reported that the suspect Sonel killed Gülistan Doku with Umut Altaş next to him, and then called the protection police Şükrü Eroğlu. It was stated that Eroğlu first buried Doku’s lifeless body under the tree next to the cemetery in Koçpınar village, Pertek district of Tunceli, but the location of the body was changed about 1-2 years ago. Considering that the secret witness statements were reliable, the prosecutor’s office requested the arrest of Sonel due to “strong suspicion of crime”. The court found this request appropriate and accepted it.

Kurtulmuş chaired the closing session of the 152nd General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which was held at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel and Congress Center with the theme of “Growing Hope for Future Generations, Ensuring Peace and Ensuring Justice”. Speaking at the end of the session, Kurtulmuş thanked the IPU, the GNAT staff and Ambassador Ahmet Aydın Doğan for their efforts in organizing the general assembly. Kurtulmuş wished success to Martin Chungong, who completed his duty as general secretary, and wished success to Anda Filip, who was elected as the new general secretary. Kurtulmuş stated that they will continue to work in extremely close cooperation with Filip in the future as Türkiye and said, “I wish him a wise management.

I hope to be able to speak and do business with him in the language of peace, friendship and brotherhood. “Since he is a Romanian friend of ours, I wish him success as a neighbor as well,” he said. Expressing that every speech and discussion held during the general assembly is extremely important, Kurtulmuş noted that they are extremely useful in ensuring world peace, and that he thinks they are extremely meaningful, especially in terms of giving strength to “parliamentary diplomacy”. Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Kurtulmuş continued as follows: “It is possible to gather the summary of all these speeches at one point. We are going through an extraordinarily difficult, extraordinarily turbulent period. We are experiencing very deep tensions covering every country and every nation in almost every part of the world. We are going through a period in which there are conflicts, internal conflicts, proxy wars, and trade wars, and tensions and conflicts in this sense have spread almost all over the world. In addition, as a natural result of many negativities that have been experienced, we see that poverty, famine and destitution have become almost ordinary for many parts of the world.

Likewise, we are witnessing that there is an extraordinarily serious immigration issue and international displacement that emerges as the common vector of all of these events. In addition to tensions between countries, we also witness social tensions emerging as important fault lines within countries. Likewise, we are witnessing an environmental crisis, climate crisis and environmental destruction more severe than ever before in human history. We are experiencing many negativities that we can count until the morning.” Pointing out that almost all of these negativities, apart from natural disasters, are man-made disasters, Kurtulmuş said, “Therefore, it is clear that it is necessary for humanity to be shaken and come to its senses, and for humanity to step in to solve these disasters that it has created with its own hands, from human genocide to migration, from hunger to war. It is humans who create these problems. It is the person who puts it forward. “The solution must be in the minds and hearts of human beings,” he said.

At the meeting, Minister Tekin received the latest information about the activities carried out in the region and the measures taken after the heinous attacks in Şanlıurfa and Kahramanmaraş. Pointing out that the state is carrying out studies in the field with all its resources, Tekin pointed out that the psychosocial support and guidance activities carried out by the Ministry units since the first day should continue uninterrupted.

THREATS AND TRAPS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD…

Tekin pointed out that, as the Ministry, they immediately took all the necessary steps to be with teachers, students and parents at all times, and repeated the instruction not to cause any disruption in this regard. At the meeting, the studies carried out by the units regarding school security and the steps to be taken, risk areas, regulations in the legislation and planned changes in this regard were evaluated. At the meeting, where the threats and traps faced by students in the digital world, solution suggestions and security measures inside and outside the school were discussed, the work to be done with teachers and parents to combat the dangers that children are or may be exposed to was discussed.

In his statement on his virtual media account, Minister Gürlek said, “While strengthening the physical and technical capacity of our justice organization, we are also resolutely improving the working conditions of our personnel who work selflessly for the administration of justice. Thanks to the devoted work of our valuable members of the judiciary who work at all levels of the judicial organization, from the chief public prosecutor’s office to the higher judicial bodies, more cases are resolved than the number of files opened during the year; effectiveness and efficiency in judicial processes are increasing. Within the scope of the works carried out in line with the ‘Zero Cadastral File’ target.” “A 151.3 percent clearance rate has been achieved; this success has been recorded as an important threshold for completing the trials in a reasonable time,” he said.

‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRONGLY IMPLEMENT OUR WILL TO REFORM’

Minister Gürlek said, “We continue to implement our administrative and structural regulations in line with our goal of providing justice services in a faster, more effective and accessible way; we continue our work with the aim of increasing citizen satisfaction to the highest level. We will continue to strongly implement our will to reform, in line with the vision of ‘making Turkey’s Century the Century of Justice’ under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.”

In his statement on his social media account, Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek announced that efforts to increase the capacity of the judicial organization are continuing with determination. Emphasizing that both physical and technical infrastructure have been strengthened, Minister Gürlek stated that personnel conditions have also been improved to provide justice services faster and more effectively.

Minister Gürlek said, “Thanks to the devoted work of our valuable members of the judiciary who work at all levels of the judicial organization, from the chief public prosecutor’s office to the higher judicial bodies, more cases than the number of files opened during the year are being decided; effectiveness and efficiency in judicial processes are increasing. Within the scope of the work carried out in line with the “Zero Cadastral File” target, a 151.3 percent clearance rate has been reached; this success has been recorded as an important threshold for completing the trials in a reasonable time.” He made a statement.

“WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRONGLY IMPLEMENT OUR WILL FOR REFORM”

Stating that administrative and structural reforms are continuing to increase speed and accessibility in justice services, Minister Gürlek emphasized that maximizing citizen satisfaction is the primary goal and added: “Under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, we will continue to strongly implement our will to reform in line with the vision of ‘making Turkey’s Century the Century of Justice’.” he said.