R. G. Çetinkaya, the daughter of jailed Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya, has written a letter to Turkish Minute in which she explained the deteriorating health of her father, who suffers from a serious kidney problem as well as other ailments and called on Turkish authorities to provide him with immediate medical care. Çetinkaya is among […]
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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, attended a “March of Justice” kicked off by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday in order to demand his son’s release, Sözcü daily reported. The daily identified the man as “Veysel Amca”
The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) has called on Turkish authorities to provide urgent medical care to Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya, who has been in pre-trial detention in Turkey for 11 months. “Tuncer Çetinkaya, a journalist and former regional representative of Zaman newspaper in Antalya, has been detained for 11 months in Turkey
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Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing who shared a photo of an MP5 machine gun on Facebook, was briefly detained and then released on Thursday, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. According to the report, Aybek had posted a photo of an MP5 machine gun accompanied by a message saying
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The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign for urgent action against the recent imprisonment of Taner Kılıç, a lawyer and the chairman of AI Turkey’s board. AI kicked off the campaign on Twitter on June 14 to support Kılıç, calling for his release, with the hashtag #FreeTanerKılıç. Since then, members
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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 1601 people were detained, with 895 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting Turkey’s Kurdish minority, and the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of
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Turkish actor Barış Atay has been detained in Dalyan district of Muğla due to an outstanding warrant for his detention, Turkish media outlets reported early on Thursday. Atay, a leftist activist and actor, is known for his critical stance against the Turkish government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office as a result of an investigation into Koza-İpek Holding seeks a jail sentence of 77 years for businessman Akın İpek due to his links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
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The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday kicked off a “march of justice” from Turkey’s capital Ankara to İstanbul in protest of the arrest of CHP deputy Enis Berberoğlu on Wednesday. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu arrived at Ankara’s Güven Park, where the party began the march, on Thursday with a banner in his
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A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for a total of 101 teachers and principals on Thursday in İstanbul as part of an investigation into the alleged and real followers of Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup on July 15, 2016. According to the T24 news website,
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