Following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s promise “to cut off traitors’ heads,” the pro-government media called for an Ottoman-like solution for the execution of people linked to the Gülen movement, which Erdoğan accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. “This is an example of execution in the days where decisions were […]
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Enraged at Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu calling the July 15, 2016 coup attempt a “controlled coup” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday lambasted the opposition leader, calling him a “coward” for his behavior on the night of the failed coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. “Some insistently say ‘controlled coup.’ They
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Two journalists working for the Dihaber news website, Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman, were detained on Thursday evening in the southeastern province of Gaziantep based on “reasonable suspicion,” the Artigerçek news website reported on Friday. According to the report, Alayumat and Akman, who were following news on the southern Turkish border between Hatay and Gaziantep
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A total of 3,206 Turkish nationals have applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of 2017, data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) have showed. According to the report by BAMF, there has been an increase in the number of Turkish nationals who applied for asylum in Germany
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Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) Deputy Caglar Demirel was given 7.5 years of prison sentence while another HDP deputy, Abdullah Zeydan was sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in jail, on Friday. Both are accused of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). Turkey has stepped up its crackdown on Kurdish politicians in
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A group of police officers waited outside of private Hizmet Hospital in Istanbul’s Bahcelievler district in order to detain Yasemin Özkul, who gave birth to her third child just several hours ago, according to Turkish media. Police left Hizmet Hospital only after main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu reacted to the police presence
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Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has said with the establishment of a state of emergency (OHAL) commission, 12,600 cases currently awaiting review at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been dropped by the court, the t24 news website reported on Friday. The OHAL commission, which is expected to start work on July 17, will
A total of 7,563 people were dismissed with a new post-coup emergency decree, released only a day before the first anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. The government decree, numbered 692, dismissed 7,563 people including 302 academics, from their jobs. Turkey survived a military takeover attempt on July 15, last year and the
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Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been released under house arrest, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Police teams on Monday detained 42 people at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi and Medeniyet universities over alleged links to the Gülen movement. According
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A total of 4,521 judges and prosecutors were dismissed from their jobs over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK). Speaking to state broadcaster TRT on Thursday, HSK’s inspection committee head Yunus Nadi Kolukısa said 4,521 judges and prosecutors were expelled from profession thanks to administrative investigations
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