M.O., a dismissed teacher and father of two kids with 92 and 98 percent disability ratings, has reportedly been kept in an Antalya prison for almost 4 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. Speaking to Aktifhaber.com news portal, the wife of M.O. […]
İstanbul prosecutors have finally prepared an indictment against Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November in 2017 on charges of supporting several terrorist organizations. There are 19 suspects mentioned in the indictment including arrested Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives as well as former Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who left Turkey before a
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Seven teachers were detained while having a picnic at an İstanbul park on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. According to the Hürriyet daily, the teachers were taken into police custody and then sent to an İstanbul jail by a court
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An Ankara prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 41 employees of Turkey’s Court of Accounts due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The detention warrants were issued by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for 41 people across seven provinces. Some of the individuals for whom detention warrants have been issued were already
As Turkey has been going after family members of the suspects it failed to locate, A. Öksüz, the brother of the major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, was denied request to change his surname. An assistant professor at the faculty of Turkish literature at Karabuk University, A. Öksüz was dismissed from his job as part of
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70-year-old Kemal Gun was fined TL 8,626 [ $2,400] for an ongoing hunger strike he started as part of his efforts to be given the dead body of his child who was killed during an air attack by Turkish miliary in Tunceli’s Dersim district on Nov 7, 2016. 11 individuals were killed during a bombardment
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Turkey’s spying imams are proved to have been active also in Romania as an exclusive report has documented case-by-case profiling activities against perceived enemies of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “A memo from Turkey’s Counsellor for Religious Affairs in Bucharest, Osman Kilic, was sent to his boss at the Presidency of Religious Affairs (known as Diyanet)
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An Ankara court has ruled to block access to Turkeypurge.com and @TurkeyPurge twitter account for the third time in 6 months without issuing prior notification, citing “legal consideration” of a law regarding crimes committed through social media. According to a notification sent by Twitter to Turkey Purge’s official e-mail address on March 27, after technical analysis and legal consideration based
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An Antalya court has re-arrested a total of 16 individuals including journalists and police officers over their alleged links to Gülen movement shortly after their release by another court last week. The Antalya 2nd High Criminal Court last week released 20 police officers and eight journalists on judicial probation. According to Hürriyet daily, the Antalya 3rd
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