Önder Asan, a private school teacher who was allegedly abducted by unidentified people in April 1, turned out to be in police custody in Ankara Police Department’s Bureau of Organized Crimes, his wife said on Saturday. According to a Tweet by Fatma Asan, wife of Önder Asan, her husband was kept in an unknown place […]
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A total of 50 noncommissioned officers in 14 provinces have been detained by police over links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According several Turkish media outlets, as part of the investigation based in Edirne province, simultaneous raids were conducted in 14 Turkish
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The European Federations of Journalists (EFJ) and its global affiliate and International Federations of Journalists (IFJ) have called on Turkey to stop what they called judicial harassment against Turkish journalists. Ayşenur Parıldak, a former reporter from the now-closed Zaman daily, was released early on May, 2 but was re-arrested by the same court hours before
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Media coverage of detainees with signs of beatings indicate that torture and ill-treatment are officially being condoned to silence and prevent dissent, a recent report by the UK-based Freedom from Torture said with regards to reports on torture allegations in Turkey. “This contributes to an environment in which torture is officially endorsed tacitly or overtly
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An İstanbul court ruled on Friday for the arrest of one of the two historians for whom detention warrants were issued for insulting the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Doğan News Agency has reported. The court arrested historian Süleyman Yeşilyurt on charges of “insulting the memory of Atatürk” and “inciting people
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Arab students who have previously studied at universities shut down by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, are being “detained and threatened with deportation” by Turkish police, according to Al-Fanar Media news portal. Al-Fanar media reporters have interviewed several Syrian and Yemeni students who have previously been
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The three Turkish nationals detained over controversial charges in Malaysia have been deported to Turkey, according to police chief Khalid Abu Bakar. Malay police detained Turgay Karaman, the headmaster of a Turkish school in the city of Ipoh; businessman İhsan Aslan and academic İsmet Özçelik over their alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and
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Oğuz Güven, the internet editor of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper was detained in early Friday. “I am being taken into custody,” Güven tweeted without elaborating on the charges raised against him. Cumhuriyet’s editor in chief Murat Sabuncu was, in early November 2016, arrested along with 8 other Cumhuriyet columnists and executives for allegedly committing crime on behalf
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Detention warrants were issued for 102 people as part of an investigation into the alleged sympathizers of the Gülen movement, on Friday. The operation targets the movement’s allegedly secretive clique within the country’s stock exchange, Borsa İstanbul (BİST). Police carried out operations in the provinces of İstanbul, Giresun, Balıkesir, Kayseri, Bursa and Ankara and have
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