A 10-year-old girl died in a traffic accident in Elazığ on Monday while on her way to visit her father, Ali Osman Özcan, who has been imprisoned over links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup last summer. Betül Seda Özcan, 10, hit the road along with her mother […]
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A total of 1,080 people were convicted of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016, according to data from Turkey’s Justice Ministry, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Wednesday. Data from the Justice Ministry showed that 4,936 cases were launched against people on charges of insult in 2016. The report indicated that 4,750 people over the
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Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016, according to the Evrensel daily. The deaiy reported on Wednesday that medical faculty staff Cem Terzi, İzge Günal, Halil Resmi and Halis Ulaş; economics faculty staff Ayşen Uysal, Nuri Erkin Başer, Yeşim Edis Şahin, Seçkin Aydın,
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An Alevi spiritual leader has been arrested by an İstanbul court over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Turkeypurge.com has learned that, Süleyman Alan was detained by police on May 24 and arrested by an İstanbul court later the same
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On the 111th day of a hunger strike launched by two academics, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, 111 prominent figures in a newspaper ad on Tuesday called on the government to take action to save the academics
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Dilek Sağlam, a teacher and mother of a 10-month-old baby, has been under arrest since June 12 because her husband could not be found by the police, TR724 reported on Tuesday. Sağlam has a 5-year-old daughter who is unable to continue her treatment for shortness of breath due to her mother’s arrest. Sağlam’s father was told that
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Muhammet Safi, the director of Turkey’s Presidential Archives, has called for the arming of every household for the defense of Turkey, the Diken news website reported on Friday. “It’s necessary to launch a project to arm each household with an automatic rifle and 1,000 bullets,” said Safi in a Twitter message, quoting a tweet of
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Turkish authorities have transferred the ownership of churches, houses of worship and cemeteries that have belonged to the Syriac community for over 1,600 years to Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) as part of a process of liquidation in Mardin province. According to a story in the Agos daily on Friday, after Mardin became a
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