Former Zaman journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya has been taken into custody anew 2 days after he was released from 8-month-long imprisonment. Zaman’s former local news representative in the southern province of Antalya, Çetinkaya was put in a pre-trial detention on July 27, 2016 as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against critics. He was released on […]
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BengüTürk TV Editor-in-Chief Murat Ide said on Mar 30 that he was fired for resisting against saying “Yes” in the upcoming presidential referendum that is expected to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power. BengüTürk is a private TV channel known to be close to the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the leader of which has offered
A Turkish prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 90 soldiers, including high ranking military officers, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Gülen movement, which is accused by Turkish government of orchestrating a failed coup in Turkey last summer. According to a Friday report by CNNTürk, 50 of the wanted soldiers have so far been
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21 out of 26 journalists who have been in pre-trial detention for eight months were released pending trial by İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court on Friday. The journalists were accused of membership in the Gülen movement, which has been designated as a terror organization by the Turkish government and accused of orchestrating a failed coup
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A former research assistant at Ankara University’s faculty of law, Cenk Yiğiter, found a way to get around a post-coup witch hunt, as he took a nationwide university entrance exam in order to get back to the grind. Yiğiter was sacked by a government decree along with many other colleagues on Jan. 6. He joined
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Turkish government has been spying on its own citizens in 35 countries with the help of its diplomatic outposts, according to German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. “The diplomatic cables contain information collected by Turkish diplomatic outposts in 35 countries,” said an article on the magazine on Friday. Der Spiegel has become the latest of media
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All 21 journalists who had been in pre-trial detention for eight months and were to be released pending trial on Friday were arrested again early on Saturday without ever having been freed, the pro-government Hürriyet daily has reported. The İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court had ruled on Friday for the release of 21 out of
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Turkey’s global food giant Ülker withdrew a controversial advertising as pro-government social media users as well as some columnists claimed that secret messages in the commercial usher in an impending military coup, on Friday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt that killed more than 250 people on July 15, 2016 while the government launched a
The Şırnak Governor’s Office has announced that the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) official referendum campaign song “Bejin Na‘’ (Say No) has been banned in Şırnak for “inciting hatred and hostility among people”. According to a circular jointly issued by Şırnak governor Ali İhsan Su and Şırnak Police Chief Ömer Ulusoy, HDP’s referendum song violated
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