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An administrative court in Ankara has ordered the Culture Ministry to continue to fund a play staged by one of Turkey’s longest-running private theater troupes, despite its members expressing vocal support for last year’s Gezi protests.

An initial expert report on the Soma mine disaster questions the rescue operation carried out after hundreds of workers remained trapped in the galleries after the fire started to spread inside the mine An initial expert report on the Soma mine disaster obtained by daily Hürriyet has questioned the rescue operation carried out after hundreds of workers remained trapped in the galleries

Appeal against detention of Ivanović rejected

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The Court of Appeals in Priština has rejected an appeal filed against a decision to keep Oliver Ivanović in prison, his party, GI SDP, announced on Thursday.

A column I wrote 14 years ago was titled: “Witch-hunt in the judiciary.” It was those years when the Feb. 28 guys were ruling the state. Those judges and prosecutors who did not make decisions the way they wanted were blacklisted as “reactionist.” They also had a decree prepared for this purpose.

Media mogul and former Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic has been forced on the defensive following reports that he was mentioned by name during the reading of the indictment of Naser Kelmendi, who is being tried in Kosovo for murder among other grave offences.

Reports on a young Gezi protester, who became publicly known as “the girl with the red foulard,” which states that she joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), have been used as evidence by the prosecutor in her trial.

A court in the Netherlands ruled Wednesday that the Dutch state was liable for the deaths of over 300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II.
      

A former French local election candidate for the far-right National Front (FN) has been sentenced to nine months in prison for comparing the country's black justice minister to a monkey.
      

Netherlands ruled responsible for Srebrenica deaths

THE HAGUE -- A Dutch court has ruled that the Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of more than 300 people in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995.

Trial in 2012 fatal nightclub fire stirs up Serbia

The trial raised questions about the judiciary, as well as safety conditions at clubs.

Serbia has for two years closely watched the trial of defendants charged with the deaths of six young people in a fire at a dance club in Novi Sad, the biggest city in Serbia's Vojvodina province.