Turkish police broke the arm of Gülsüm Elvan, the mother of Berkin Elvan, who was killed during the Gezi Park protests in 2013, while detaining her during a protest on Friday in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district in support of imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who have been on a hunger strike for over 150 days. According to the […]
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Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to a state of emergency declared after a failed coup last year, a BBC Turkish report said on Friday. Conducting interviews with three women who are victims of emergency rule, BBC revealed
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Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained at least 43 individuals on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkish media reported. In Kayseri, a total of 26 people, including public servants, lawyers and housewives were detained on Wednesday, according to the Milliyet daily. Four others are still being wanted by the
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Detention warrants have been issued for 35 journalists over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLocDetention warrants have been issued for 35 journalists over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, as part of an investigation run by the İstanbul
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Mülkiye Demir Kılınç, a 32-year-old mother of twin babies was put under arrest after the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld her conviction on terror charges. Detained along with her twin babies on the road to the western province of Aydın on Aug 6, Kılınç was sent to jail. Sentenced to 2 years and one month
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Academic Cenk Yiğiter, who was dismissed from the Ankara University law faculty under a state of emergency decree-law, has not been allowed to study at the communication faculty of the same university despite passing the entrance examination. Ankara University added an article to a regulation issued on Aug. 8, 2017 and said students who earned
Nurettin Aytuğ, the manager of the Erbil branch of the government-closed Bank Asya who has been under arrest over a year, has developed psychological disorders in prison, according to his family. Aytuğ’s family members told Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) that he has developed psychological disorders amid fears of being killed after months of seclusion
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An Ankara lawyer who wants to remain anonymous has said his/her client, detained over his links to the Gülen movement, was waiting his turn in fears to be tortured at a detention facility in Turkey’s capital. In his/her letter to the Human Rights Association (İHD), the lawyer said people detained as part of an investigation
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Turkish police teams on Tuesday detained 16 people, including a stallholder woman in an Aksaray-based coup probe on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the Doğan news agency reported. One of the alleged ByLock users Gülen D. was detained in a market place where she was selling tomatoes and pepper.
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The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 157 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched into 2,696
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