Felicity Webb, an Amnesty International activist from the UK, has written a letter of solidarity to journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, who is among the dozens of journalists arrested in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. In her letter Webb wrote Ayşenur she was dismayed and saddened to hear about her […]
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison, on Tuesday. Former Council of State member Mithat Ozcan was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to imprison
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Former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of 1 year and 6 months for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A Diyarbakir court convicted Yüksekdağ for a statement she made while under custody for another, anti-terrorism investigation. When referring to Erdogan, Yuksekdag said: “…Erdogan whose
Teoman Kadioglu, a columnist with the Posta newspaper for 15 years, has been fired over a tweet he posted about decreasing sales of a sister publication. “Hurriyet newspaper has a actual daily circulation of 28,000 in Istanbul. It is 60,000 in Turkey as a whole. Are social media and digital revolution the only reason for
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Ömer Faruk Aksoy, a computer technician who died of skin cancer after he was dismissed from job, was found innocent 2.5 years later and “reinstated” to his job. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a rights activist and a lawmaker from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) tweeted Tuesday Aksoy was given a right to get back to work
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 10 years, 3 months and 22 days in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Akkus was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to
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A former Turkish teacher who was dismissed from his job over links to the Gulen movement was sentenced to 10.5 years in jail. The Adana-based former teacher, identified with his initials Z.K., was intercepted while trying to escape to Greece where many other suspected Gulenists have claimed asylum over the recent years., some time ago.
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Zehra Doğan, an artist and journalist for the now-closed a Kurdish news agency (JİNHA), was released on Sunday after two years, nine months and 22 days in prison Doğan was convicted of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in social media posts and news stories. Her reports covered curfews in Turkey’s Southeast imposed during a military offensive against
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More than 100 people allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group have been forcibly brought back from abroad so far, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran. “Over 20 FETO schools [abroad] were taken over . The latest of such incident was in Pakistan. We got some remarkable results in Afghanistan as well. So far,
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An Istanbul prosecutor ordered a “secret” investigation against family members of 19 journalists, accused of links to the Gulen movement, according to an internal correspondence within Turkish bureaucracy, revealed Monday by journalist Abdullah Bozkurt. Screenshots of the prosecutor’s order, dated Dec 19, 2016, and a subsequent response from Istanbul police on Jan 24, 2017 show
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