Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher, has been given a prison sentence of one year, three months for “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization” with comments she made on Turkish television program the Beyaz Show, the Yolculuk.com news portal reported on Wednesday. On the night of Jan 8, 2016, a woman who introduced herself as Ayşe […]
As part of an ongoing operation launched against the Gülen movement following a failed coup on July 15, the Turkish government has suspended a total of 9,103 police officers, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Wednesday. According to the report, 2,500 of those suspended worked in İstanbul, while 1,350 were in Ankara. Early on Wednesday, Turkish prosecutors
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Turkey, which has around 200 journalists jailed in its prisons, is ranked 155th among 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday. If Turkey falls four more ranks, it will make it to the list of the countries on the blacklist, which has the poorest record
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At least seven lawyers in the Kütahya province were detained as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown on Monday. The detainees are accused of having used ByLock, a smarthphone application that Turkish prosecutors claim to be the top communication tool among the Gülen movement followers. The government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15
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Më 23 Prill, Turqia manifestoi 97 përvjetorin e themelimit të Parlamentit turk, Sovranitetin Ndërkombëtarë si dhe Ditën e Fëmijëve, kurse 520 fëmijë të nënave të burgosurë kanë qenë të privuar prej një gëzimi të kësaj dite pasi kanë qenë të detyruar që të rriten nëpër burgje. Sipas të dhënave të fundit të publikuar nga Ministria
Emine Sennur Sen, the sister-in-law of Turkey’s major coup suspect Adil Oksuz was put under pre-trial arrest on Monday. Sen is accused of having used ByLock, a controversial mobile app that Turkish authorities claim to be the top communication tool among followers of the Gulen movement. A Sakarya court ruled on her arrest as part
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Cancelling subscription to the leading pay TV operator, Digiturk has been considered among evidence in post-coup investigations targeting the Gülen movement. An Antalya court ruled on continuation of arrest for a suspect after the judge found out that the arrestee had cancelled his subscription to Digiturk for removing a number of Gülen-linked TV channels from
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) placed Turkey on a monitoring watchlist for its bleak record of human rights violations and pressure on dissenting voices in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt, on Tuesday. Strasbourg-based PACE decided to reopen political monitoring of Turkey “until its concerns are addressed in a satisfactory
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Aziz T., a former deputy police chief detained near Turkey’s Greek border on Apr 12, was put in pre-trial arrest on Tuesday. Aziz T spent 13 days under police custody. Dismissed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gülen movement, Aziz T was rounded up along with 6 others in Muğla’s Marmaris district
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