An unidentified teacher, with 35.5 years of experience in education according to his own telling, has been working as a farmer at an olive grove since he was dismissed from his job under a post-coup emergency rule. A video that has recently emerged on social media shows a dismissed teacher elaborating on his life after […]
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Five protesters who are demanding reinstatement to their jobs by protesting on a street in Ankara have been sentenced to house arrest, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Esra Özakça, Acun Karadağ, Nazife Onay, Nazan Bozkurt and Erdoğan Canpolat, who wanted to show their support for dismissed educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça and
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Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam, former rector of Batman University and head of an excavation team in Hasankeyf’s historic area, was put in pre-trial arrest as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Wednesday. Detained while inspecting the excavation work at the historic site on Saturday, Ulucam spent 4 days under custody before a
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Ali Avcı, the director of the soon-to-be-released “coup movie”, was detained over links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Avcı’s detention came only hours after a trailer for his new movie, titled “Uyanış” or “the Awakening” in English, was released on social media, drawing backlash
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Barış Yurtseven, the pilot of the plane that brought Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Dalaman to İstanbul on the night of a failed military coup attempt last July, was fired from Turkish Airlines (THY) in February over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding the putsch. the Doğan news
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Demonizing remarks on Turkey’s Gulen group have reached a new level with government supporters resorting to obscenity in hate speech against its supporters. Turkish government accused the Gulen movement for masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while the latter denies the allegation. With the long-expected trials of military officers allegedly involved in the failed
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It seems that the Turkey’s intelligence spies have a command center in The Hague, the leading Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said suggesting that Turkish operatives may have been using this place to draw up death lists involving leading Kurdish figures in Europe. The newspaper mentioned a secret tape recording between Kurdish-origin Mustafa Karatas from Hamburg
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An arrest warrant has been issued for renowned Turkish international soccer player Hakan Şükür for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son on his Twitter account, the Evrensel daily reported on Tuesday. An İstanbul court decided to issue an arrest warrant for Şükür for failing to attend court hearings and whose address in
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The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 40 individuals including academics and staff members at the Ankara-based Turgut Özal University which was closed down by the government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt last July due to its links to the Gülen movement. The academics and staff members are
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