Arrested for raising donations on behalf of a Gülen movement-linked charity, 62-year-old religion and ethics teacher Hüseyin Pembe passed away after his battle with cancer in prison on June 1. With the starting date for his imprisonment still unknown, Pembe has been under arrest in Samsun prison for at least four months. According to Turkish […]
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11 bank employees were detained in Ankara-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 20 people who were earlier dismissed from their jobs at the central bank; the government-seized Bank Asya; the state-owned development and investment bank, Iller Bankasi; and
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Four academics, identified as Ç.Ş, M.G.K, M.A. and M.F.S., from Erciyes University was jailed as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Thursday. Accused of having used ByLock, a smartphone app that Turkish authorities claim to be the top communication tool
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A Panamanian-flagged vessel was forced to dock by the Turkish coast guard while it was sailing through the Dardanelles on Thursday after its Turkish captain allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in radio communication, Turkish media reported. According to a story on the CNN Türk website, the dry cargo vessel Salix was stopped after the
Seventy-three teachers, who were earlier dismissed from their jobs, were detained in an Istanbul-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday. Istanbul police carried out operations to detain the suspects over their use of ByLock, a controversial mobile application that the government claim
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A Kastamonu-based university student, identified as M.A., received a 6-years-and-3-months prison term over terror charges, on Tuesday. Under arrest for some time over his/her use of ByLock mobile application, M.A. was sentenced for alleged membership to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and thus describes as
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The torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhumane and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey’s detention centers and prisons has become the norm rather than the exception under increased nationalistic euphoria and religious zealotry in the country, the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has stated in a summary of its latest study. The
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An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks two consecutive life sentences for 13 people, including prominent Turkish journalists and pop singer Atilla Taş, on coup charges. The journalists named in the indictment are National Party (UP) leader and Türk Solu weekly columnist Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Yakup Çetin, Bünyamin Köseli, Cihan Acar,
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Ekrem Yeter, the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, was arrested by a court after his detention in Ankara early Monday as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group. Yeter was detained at his residence in Ankara and sent to a prosecutor’s office to testify. After a prosecutor referred him to an
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Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish national working for two schools established by Gulen movement followers in Myanmar, was forcibly returned to Turkey despite his cries for help on social media. He was arrested after spending 9 days under detention, on Monday. An Hatay court ruled on Sokmen’s arrest on June 5. Sökmen called for “help
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