Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar was detained on Saturday. “Ozer Sencar was taken into custody. We have yet to know the reason for detention. We hope the process to be resolved soon. Respectfully announced to the public on behalf of him. (His family), the pollster’s Twitter account said. […]
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Një familje turke që raportohet se të enjten është arrestuar nga autoritetet ukrainase, janë mbajtur peng në një dhomë në aeroportin Boryspil të kryeqytetit ukrainas, Kiev, për tre ditë të tërë, për tu deportuar në Turqi, sipas një video incizimi që anëtarët e familjes e postuan në medien sociale. Babai, Ali Yildiz, në një video
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Twenty-one years old university student Ali Gül, who appeared in a popular No campaign video in the run up to the April 16 presidential referendum, has received 2 years and 17 days of suspended jail term. The catchy video titled “What does a ‘No’ mean?” was quickly shared by thousands of social media users after it
A 9-year-old girl was separated from her foster family as the adoptive father is being under investigation over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt. An official from Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policy in late November, 2016 told media that
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چار افراد کو انقرہ میں ایک پیسٹری شاپ پربدھ کے روز اس وقت گرفتار کر لیا گیا جب وہ مبینہ طور پر پکڑ دھکڑ سے بچنے کے لیے ترکی سے باہر جانے کا منصوبہ بنا رہے تھے۔ سکاری خبر رساں ایجنسی انادولو نیوز کے مطابق انقرہ پولیس نے انقرہ کے اتیمیسگت ضلع میں ایک بیکری
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged Turkey to confirm the whereabouts of three Turkish nationals who were detained in Malaysia at Ankara’s request due to their ties to the Gülen movement, a statement by the Brussels-based Intercultural Dialogue Platform said. According to the Thursday statement by the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, a network of
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Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Şansal has been given a suspended prison sentence of 6 months, 20 days on charges of “insulting Turkish nation” with a video he posted on social media on the New Year’s Eve. According to Sözcü daily, the sentence was sought in line with Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which makes
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Former Zaman columnist and academic, Abdülkadir Civan was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison over alleged membership to a terrorist organization, on May 26. Civan wrote columns for both Zaman and its sister publication, English-language Today’s Zaman; and gave economics courses at İzmir’s Gediz University until all three institutions were shut down by
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A group of police officers mopped the floor with Sultan Özakça and Esra Özakça, the mother and wife of Semih Özakça, an educator who was jailed after going on a hunger strike in protest of his dismissal with government decrees in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt. Özakça’s wife and mother were reportedly
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