The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 39 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 180 […]
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Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is collecting intelligence on Turkish dissidents and the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Germany, according to the t24 news website. Turkey is among the countries that have increased spying activities in Germany, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced. The BfV suggested in a
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Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık has announced that there will be a new expulsion of officers in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and that an upcoming meeting of the Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) will be the opportunity to carry this out. Speaking to TRT Haber on Tuesday, Işık said: “We will never show any tolerance
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At least 31 people who used to work at Ankara University were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on Tuesday. Accused of using ByLock smartphone application, the detainees included academics, lecturers, research assistants and employees who were dismissed or laid off from their jobs in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup
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Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated before he completes a “March of Justice” he launched on June 15. “I hope he [Kılıçdaroğlu] will be not killed until July 9 so we can hear what he has to
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A main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy revealed the dimensions of an ongoing government crackdown on people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, which Turkish authorities accuse of attempting a coup last summer, by sharing the story of a dismissed teacher and his wife who are being held in different sections of the same prison.
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A Turkish judge, identified as Ö. K., was arrested near Turkey’s Greek frontier in Edirne’s Ipsala district on Monday. Gendarmerie raided a country house in Haci village in Ipsala and rounded up Ö. K. who had an outstanding arrest warrant issued as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement which the Turkish government accuses of
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Usak University has laid off 9 academics as part of Turkish government’s widening crackdown after the failed military coup attempt. Deputy rector Sayin Dalkiran told Turkish media that 9 academics including docents, lecturers and research assistants were laid off over their alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July
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A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been kept in İstanbul Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges, has walked a total of 309 km in 17 days as part of a “March of Justice” kicked off by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on June 15. Veysel Kılıç’s son was Air
