Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Hakkari deputy Abdullah Zeydan and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel will go on a hunger strike on Friday in prisons where they are jailed. A statement from Demirtaş released by the HDP on Thursday said: ” In consequence of the Edirne Prison’s stance of […]
An İstanbul court ruled for the arrest of a total of 40 police officers on Thursday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Cumhuriyet daily has reported. According to the report, 43 police officers were detained on early on Thursday in simultaneous raids across İstanbul. Of those, 40 were sent to jail later the
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Amnesty International launched a campaign on Twitter on Thursday to support jailed journalists in Turkey, calling for their release, with the hashtag #FreeTurkeyMedia. AI created a Twitter account under the pseudonym @FreeTurkeyMedia and called on Twitter users to make a #FreeTurkeyMedia sign, take a photo with it and tweet it with the hashtag to support
Police detained a total of eight reporters working for Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency over their alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock . The detainees are identified as follows: S.P., İ.Y., Y.D., T.K., A.D., Y.K., A.K. and H.Ö. ByLock is considered by Turkish authorities to be the top communication tool among
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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 detained by police 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 accusations. Akşener
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A recent circular from a district director of Turkey’s Education Ministry asked principals to bring 50 students, three teachers and one administrator from every school in İstanbul’s Büyükçekmece district to a public rally scheduled to be held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of an upcoming referendum on a constitutional reform package. “President Recep Tayyip
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Two workers at a café at İzmir’s Katip Çelebi University were fired by their subcontractor employer after they shared a photo of them on social media taken next to a “No” sign for a referendum to be held on April 16. In comments to the Bianet website, Zeynep Güler, one of the workers, said they
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Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency handed his German counterparts a list of 300 individuals and 200 institutions in Germany, thought to be linked to the Gulen movement, at a Munich security conference last month, according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere has told media that the list
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