Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court on May 3 after spending five months in pre-trial detention and again detained on Monday at Batman Airport due to an arrest warrant issued by another Batman court on May 8, has been arrested, the Dihaber news website has […]
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Istanbul police have sealed off the Gezi Park in Taksim neighborhood as the fourth anniversary of the nationwide anti-government demonstrations nears. The Gezi protests began on May 31, 2013 in İstanbul as an effort to stop bulldozers from razing central Gezi Park, one of the few green spaces left in the city’s Taksim neighborhood, to
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A Turkish family that was reportedly detained by Ukrainian authorities on Thursday, have been kept in a room at Kiev Boryspil Airport for three days, waiting to be deported to Turkey, according to a video recording the family members posted on social media. Ali Yıldız, the father, said in a video recording he posted on
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Ahmet Yılmaz, a muhtar, or neighborhood administrator who allegedly intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been arrested by a Turkish court. Sala is a religious call read to announce a funeral ceremony at mosques while
Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been given a prison sentence of 14 months on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the decision was made by the Mersin 7th Penal Court of First Instance. Yüksekdağ is already in prison. She was arrested
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Internationally acclaimed Turkish author and human right activist, Aslı Erdoğan said she sees parallels between today’s Turkey and the Germany during Nazi rule, adding that the country was turned into a concentration camp in the face of post-coup arrest waves. Speaking to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) early this week, Erdogan said Turkey has been
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Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish teacher 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 detained at Istanbul Ataturk Airport and was taken to a police station for interrogation, on Saturday. Sökmen called for “help from the world”
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The administrators of 5 villages in Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist were dismissed from their posts after their constituency voted for No in the Apr 16 presidential referendum. In the run up to the referendum, Arif Kahraman, the district governor of Bitlis’s Adilcevaz distrist was reported to have threatened village headmen to vote Yes in the upcoming presidential
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Two rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic remedy for persons who have been dismissed from their jobs, arrested or detained by the Turkish authorities. Bernd Fabritius of Germany and Raphael Comte of Switzerland are rapporteurs on “new threats
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Mediha Olgun, opposition Sözcü daily’s online editor and Gökmen Ulu, the newspaper’s Izmir reporter were arrested over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants last week for Sözcü’s license holder Burak Akbay, finance manager Yonca Yücekaleli, Olgun, and Ulu. With Akbay currently in exile, an Istanbul
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