Pro-Kurdish Diha news agency reporter Mehmet Siddik Damar was put in pretrial detention over his social media posts on Friday. According to media, Damar visited the courthouse in Mardin’s Kiziltepe district to give his testimony over terror charges. The prosecutor overseeing his case sought Damar’s arrest by the court in charge which jailed him on […]
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According to the International Press Institute (IPI) currently a total of 171 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey due to their journalistic activities. The international media watchdog called for the immediate release of jailed journalists in Turkey on its website while displaying the cases of all 171 reporters and charges against them on Friday. IPI runs
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Doğan Akhanlı, a Turkish-born German author was detained by Spanish police at Turkey’s request on Saturday. With the charges raised against him remaining unknown, German officials said the move was politically motivated. Having fled Turkey to Germany in 1991, the 68-year-old author was detained at a hotel in the Spanish city of Granada over an
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Nine teachers were detained in Turkey’s Malatya province as part of an investigation into the followers of the Gülen movement, on Friday. The teachers are accused of using ByLock mobile application, which the prosecutors claim a primary communication tool among sympathizers of the movement. Detention warrants were issued for 10 teachers who were earlier dismissed
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A Samsun court put ten Beşiktaş sports club fans in pre-trial detention for holding banners that read “Nuriye Semih Shall Live” in support of two jailed educators who are on the 162nd day of a hunger strike, Turkish media reported on Thursday. According to the reports, 10 fans whose houses were raided and who were
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The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 70 Finance Ministry staff members over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. The suspects were previously dismissed from the ministry with a government decree issued after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
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Nine Turkish journalists detained for using ByLock last week, have officialy been arrested and sent to prison while two others were released pending trial, P24 news portal reported on Thırsday. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Aug. 10 issued detention warrants for 35 journalists who are accused of membership in the Gülen group due
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13 journalists, including Turkish pop singer and columnist for now-closed Meydan daily Atilla Taş, are ready to appear before an Istanbul court on August 16 for taking part in or supporting a coup attempt in Turkey last year. The suspects were initially acquitted after the first hearing held in April, yet were re-detained before their
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