Derya Gökten, the wife of an arrestee in Bursa prison was detained along with her 5-month-old son after visiting her husband in jail. According to a Twitter message seeking help from the Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu, the woman visited her husband in the prison and was rounded up by anti-terror police at […]
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WeltN24, the German media group that publishes Die Welt daily newspaper, has lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), over Turkey’s jailing of journalist Deniz Yücel. The veteran Die Welt reporter was first detained as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy
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Turkish authorities have requested information from their counterparts in 162 countries about the 7,990 companies that have ties with the businesses investigated over post-coup terror charges, pro-government Sabah newspaper said Wednesday. The investigation targeted 140 Turkish companies, charged of having links with the Gülen movement, which is accused by Turkish government to have masterminded the
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An indictment seeking up to 15 years in prison for German-Turkish journalist Meşale Tolu on charges of disseminating the propaganda of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been accepted by the İstanbul 29th High Criminal Court, the Etkin news agency (ETHA) reported on Friday. ETHA reporter and translator Tolu, who has been in pretrial
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Thursday that his government would not allow anti-China activities in Turkey and would take measures to eliminate media reports targeting the Beijing administration. Speaking during a news briefing in Beijing along with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, Çavuşoğlu said, “We take China’s security as our security,” according to Reuters. China
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An Azerbaijan national, identified as N.Ş., was rounded up for wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “part time hero,” in the eastern province of Kars and deported from Turkey. The incident came amid consecutive detentions of people who wore ‘hero’ T-shirts across the country. According to media on Wednesday, N.Ş. was detained and was taken
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Detention warrants have been issued for 50 former and nine on duty Science, Industry and Technology Ministry staff members over the use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. According to the report, as part of an investigation ran by Ankara Prosecutor’s Office, Turkish police launched
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Gendarmerie detained a 25-year-old cook at a hotel in Antalya’s Alanya district as part of a Denizli-based investigation into the Gülen movement on Thursday. Denizli Public Prosecutor’s Office earlier issued a detention warrant against the cook, identified as M.A., state-run Anadolu agency said adding that law enforcement located him at an Antalya hotel. Turkey survived
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Under arrest for nearly 5 months, retired police chief Ahmet Tatar has passed away after a heart attack in Osmaniye prison. Tatar, retired from his position as the head of the Diyarbakır Regional Police’s traffic division in 2015, suffered a heart attack on Aug 1 and was taken to a Osmaniye Public Hospital where he
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