A 58-year-old prospective Hajj pilgrim was reportedly detained on coup charges at İzmir’s Adnan Menderes Airport on Thursday night. According to a Twitter account named Kaç Saat Oldu? a woman identified as Hanife Işılak was taken into custody while she was waiting to get on a flight to Jeddah, on her way to the holy […]
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Aseem Trivedi, a free speech activist and cartoonist has drawn cartoons of 15 mothers and their newly born babies, who have been detained or arrested by the Turkish government on coup charges either when they are pregnant or shortly after giving birth. Triverdi published the cartoons in the “Black & White – Online Cartoon Magazine for Human Rights” on Wednesday to
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Author and human rights activist Murat Çelikkan, who was handed down an 18-month jail sentence in May, is going to be imprisoned for 13 months unless he is allowed to enjoy judicial probation after spending 45 days in prison, the Diken news website reported. Çelikkan, who stood trial for serving as “editor-in-chief on duty” for
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Newly emerged video footage shows the moment two police officers battered two İzmir women who asked for help from them about a harassment incident late on Friday. Claiming that they were sexually harassed by two youngsters with motorbikes, women, identified with initials D. and S., reportedly asked for help from the two police officers. However, a
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La asamblea general de la corte constitucional reveló que el gobierno Turco ha arrestado a un total de 2,431 jueces y fiscales, y despedido a otros 4,424 desde el fallido golpe de estado del 15 de Julio del 2016. El 16 de Julio de este año, la Corte Constitucional Turca negó la apelación de Selçuk
Yasir Kaya, a speaker and the former news director of Fenerbahçe football club’s TV channel was taken under custody over his alleged use of ByLock mobile app, on Friday. Earlier, Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 35 journalists including Kaya. Turkish authorities believe using ByLock is a sign of being a member of
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme between the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has urged Turkey to release jailed human rights defenders in the country. The Observatory urges Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release these individuals and put an end to all
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