9 pct overcapacity in Turkish prisons forces inmates to sleep in shifts
Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Basri Bağcı has informed Parliament that Turkish prisons are currently 9 percent over capacity, saying that some inmates have to sleep in shifts, Gerçek Gündem reported on Friday. “There are currently 221,607 inmates in prisons. Prison capacity is 203,000, making them 9 percent over capacity,” said Bağcı during a presentation to
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‘Matrix’-inspired governor poses for cameras in house burnt by army in SE Turkey
In a show of intimidation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Ali Arıkan, deputy governor of the southeastern province of Şırnak, posed for the camera on Friday in a house burnt down during clashes between the Turkish Armed Forces and PKK militants, resulting in widespread reaction from social media users across the country. Arıkan posted
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Opposition daily publishes blank pages to protest gov’t crackdown
The Sözcü daily on Saturday published a totally blank edition to protest detention warrants issued the previous day for its owner and three of its employees. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for owner Burak Akbay and reporter Gökmen Ulu as well as executives Melda Olgun and Yonca Kaleli over alleged links
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French journalist in prison cell for 10 days, waiting to be deported
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province, has been waiting to be deported for 10 days in a prison cell, Turkish media reports said on Friday. Depardon, who was accused of disseminating the propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on
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Gov’t removes name of slain Kurdish activist from park
Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van’s Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and human rights activist Tahir Elçi, who was killed in 2015, from a park in the district and named the park after a village guard who died in clashes with the outlawed
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Warga negara yang tinggal di Belanda mengatakan bahwa mereka kehilangan pekerjaan atas kebijakan Erdogan atas kebenciannya
Seorang penduduk Turki yang telah menggunakan hak pilihnya untuk referendum, meninggalkan sebuah catatan kecil yang bertuliskan dia telah kehilangan pekerjaannya dikarenakan kebijakan atas kebencian yang di buat oleh Presiden Recep Tayip Erdogan. Kotak suara yang di yang berada di seluruh kedutaan besar turki di seluruh dunia telah terbuka untuk warga Negara yang tinggal di luar
Turki memenjarakan guru yang cacat setelah meninggalkan dia tanpa pekerjaan
Seorang guru Rasit Uzanti yang bertempat tinggal di Denizli ditahan setelah dia dikeluarkan dari pekerjaannya dan bersama istrinya juga yang bekerja di rumah sakit pemerintah di Denizli. Menurut surat kabar Aktif haber dan akun twitter, yang dipercaya mengetahui tragedi yang terjadi di Denizli, Keluarga Uzanti menambah angka korban dari pencarian kesalahan oleh pemerintah pasca percobaan
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Teacher, lawyer go missing in new wave of post-coup disappearances
Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining the ranks of seven others who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the aftermath of a July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Their families, both living in Ankara, separately announced on social media
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Detention warrants issued for another 22 lawyers in post-coup crackdown
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 25 people, 22 of whom are lawyers and three of whom are staff at the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The detention warrants were issued by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, and 13 of the individuals
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