A professor and a journalist who stood trial separately for serving as “editor-in-chief on duty” for the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily were handed down suspended sentences of 15 months and 18 months, respectively, on charges of disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization. Professor Beyza Üstün and journalist Ekrem Murat Çelikkan were among a group […]
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Tuesday published a full-page ad in The Washington Times for the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the US saying, “You are not welcome.” Underlining that although Turkey was once a democracy, it has entered a downward spiral into dictatorship, HRF said President Erdoğan is
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A 39-year-old football coach was arrested on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to a story in the Hürriyet daily on Tuesday, coach Şaban Yıldırım, who was detained by police over the weekend, was sent to prison in
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Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) downgraded status of Antalya Regional Court of Justice head Şenol Demir and appointed him as Konya Judge after he refused to accept use of ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement, as evidence of crime. According
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Aysun Aydemir, an English teacher who gave birth to a baby in an elective caesarean procedure, was detained at the hospital and subsequently arrested by a court and put in pretrial detention with a 3-day-old baby in Zonguldak province as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding
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An İstanbul court has ruled for the arrest of Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven over a report that appeared on the daily’s website about the recent traffic death of Denizli Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Alper in Denizli province, Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, Güven, who was taken to the Istanbul Courthouse in
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Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, the two educators who have been on hunger strike for 67 days to protest their dismissals under post-coup emergency rules, are being harassed with food pictures sent by supporters of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media. “We dedicate the 66th day of our ‘hunger’ to the public labourers
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Turkey has adopted a new thuggish tactic in persecuting its critics and opponents abroad, the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) said in a recent report, elaborating on the methods Turkish government has been using to this end. Abductions, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial renditions, and profiling and harassment of expatriates are among the ways Turkish government institutions
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Bünyamin Aydoğan, a teacher who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on Friday evening in a pipeline construction accident in Kahramanmaraş province, the Hürriyet daily reported. According to the report, Aydoğan (39) died when a large pipe carried by
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