Up to 100 Dutch nationals of Turkish descent are being barred from leaving Turkey, according to Dutch public broadcaster NOS. Citing sources familiar with the situation NOS said on Thursday that those implicated were on holiday or in a trip to see their families in Turkey. The most common characteristics of the group is that […]
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Actor and columnist at Sol newspaper, Orhan Aydin was given suspended prison sentence of 11 months and 20 days for a cartoon he shared on social media. An Istanbul court handed down the verdict on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyin Erdogan on Thursday. Aydin’s sharing of a drawing by cartoonist Carlos Latuff on Erdogan’s
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At least 28 individuals were detained as part of two separate investigations into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of being behind the July 15 coup attempt, on Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 21 people in a Nigde-based probe. While 14 of them have been rounded up in Nigde and Ankara so far,
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Turkish veterinary doctor Harun Vural was diagnosed with cancer during his term under pre-trial detention however, the prosecutor in charge denies him permission to stay at hospital before an upcoming surgery. Erzurum-based veterinarian has been under arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the last year’s
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Diyarbakir-based Amedspor player Deniz Naki has been given suspended prison sentence of 18 months and 22 days due to his social media posts that the judge in charge claimed to be a part of terrorist propaganda. Turkey’s broadened terror laws have targeted a football player this time around as Amedspor’s international midfielder received a suspended
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A court in Turkey’s Mersin province has banned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) official referendum campaign song “Bejin Na‘’ (Say No) nationwide for “inciting hatred and hostility among people”. Diken news portal reported on Tuesday that according to a ruling by the Mersin 2nd Penal Court of Peace, HDP’s referendum song violated the article 216 of
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The International Observatory for Lawyers at Risk (OIAD) on Tuesday issued a statement expressing alarm over the intensification of repression carried out by Turkish authorities against lawyers and calling on the government to respect the international conventions to which Turkey is a party that protect basic human rights and ensure the ability of attorneys to
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Access to the opposition news portals, sendika.org, dihaber, ANF Türkçe and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi was blocked in Turkey by the government on Tuesday. The websites in question used to report mostly on the issues related to Kurdish minority and on human rights violations in Turkey. Sendika.org said the government has banned their website for 19 times since July
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Nuri Polat, a lawyer representing Meral Akşener, a former deputy and candidate for leadership of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has been arrested by a Turkish court over alleged links to the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The movement denies the
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