A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 109 people were detained, while 21 were arrested over their alleged links to the Gulen movement, on July 8, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried […]
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Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for pro-government Milat and Yenisöz dailies, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is “a religious obligation for Turkish state,” the Haberdar daily reported. “Honorable Turkish state needs to reveal its power. Killing FETÖ members is a religious obligation,” Adalan said in a tweet he posted several days
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), on Friday expressed serious concern at the detention of eight human rights activists in İstanbul on Wednesday, calling on the Turkish government to release them immediately. “These arrests, which took
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a press conference on Saturday that he perceives pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş to be a terrorist, the Diken news website reported. Speaking to the press after the G20 summit in Hamburg, Erdoğan accused Demirtaş of using his “Kurdish brothers” to murder other Kurds. “Turkey
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Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May 25, the T24 news website reported on Saturday. “The asylum application made by Mustafa Çabuk and his family was rejected. There is no reason for such a decision. The application should
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Speaking to the press after the G20 summit in Hamburg, Erdoğan said that police, acting on a tip from the Turkish intelligence, raided a hotel in İstanbul’s Princes’ Island where eight human rights activists and two trainers were attending a digital security and information management workshop. The Turkish president signaled that the detention of the
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A total of 965 companies with a total value of TL 41 billion [$ 11.32] billion in assets have either been transferred to Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF), or trustees have been appointed to their management by the government since a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli
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A total of fifty-seven civilians were detained as part of ongoing operations targeting the followers of Turkey’s Gülen group due to their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, police carried out opertaions in 32 districts of İstanbul throughout Friday. Turkish authorities believe ByLock is a communication tool
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