Access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey as a result of “a provisional administrative order” imposed by the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK). The Internet Freedom watchdog, the Turkey Blocks said it has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopedia in Turkey. “A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday […]
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The Turkish government has issued two new state of emergency decrees, known as KHKs, dismissing 3,974 people including 484 academics from state institutions while banning “wedding match” programs on TV, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report 1,037, including a general from the Turkish military, 1,127 from the Justice Ministry, 216 from
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Turkey’s popular TV wedding programs were banned as a result of a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rules on Saturday. “In radio and television broadcasting services, such programs in which people are introduced to find a friend. … cannot be permitted,” many international news outlets had wide coverage of this particular decree. The Turkish government
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A Kayseri physician, identified as H.H.Y., received a jail sentence of 3 years and 45 days on accusation of membership to the Gulen movement. The government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt and calls it a terrorist organization. H.H.Y. was accused of using ByLock, a smartphone chatting application that the government
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A Kirsehir court sentenced Bekir C., a teacher and the former local representative of the government-closed educators’ union, Aktif-Sen, to 6 years and three months in prison, on Apr 25. He was accused of sending his children to preparatory schools affiliated with the Gulen movement, taking loans from Bank Asya and acting as an executive
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Turkish government has been systematically and deliberately hailing women as part of a fear and intimidation campaign in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, the Sweden-based Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) said in a recent report on Apr 27. Titled “Jailing Women in Turkey, Systematic Campaign of Persecution and Fear,” the report documents
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A Basel-based traffic cop with Turkish origin has been arrested on accusation that he was involved in spying activities against critics of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Switzerland. According to a local newspaper, the 37-year-old police officer, identified with initials Y.S., extracted personal data of a Turkish expat in the Swiss city of Basler
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At least 13 people including teachers and company executives were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement on Friday. Police carried out operations in Ordu, Şanlıurfa, Kahramanmaraş, Ankara, Karaman and İzmir to detain 21 people with outstanding detention warrants. The detainees are accused of having used ByLock, a smartphone app that Turkish
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against French researcher and political scientist Philippe Moreau Defarges due to his remarks calling for the assassination of Erdoğan. Speaking to French broadcaster BFM on Saturday about the results of a public referendum held in Turkey on April 16, Defarges said since objections from opposition
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H.E., a police officer who was suspended from his job late on Thursday due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide on Friday, Cumhuriyet daily reported. “I am not a traitor. I have never betrayed my country,” the officer tweeted hours before he shot himself to death. H.E. was reportedly working at
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