Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has cancelled the membership and presiding officer position at polling centers of 164 main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members, news website diken reported on Sunday. According to the report, the decision was taken in Kurdish-populated Mardin, Batman and Siirt provinces after the receipt […]
Fatma Saadet Yılmazer and Rabia Fitnat Yılmazer, daughters of jailed former police intelligence chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer, were arrested by an İstanbul court on Monday for using ByLock, a smartphone application that is considered by Turkish authorities to be a communication tool among followers of the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of
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“Edison wouldn’t have invented the bulb if he saw these days,” Atilla Taş, a jailed pop star turned journalist wrote on Twitter two years ago, in an apparent reference to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) corporate logo. An indictment prepared against him stated: “It is considered that he spread an anti-government propaganda
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Turkey’s Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK) has delivered a court ruling to newspapers, television and websites on Sunday, announcing a broadcast and publication ban on reports relating to Kemal Kurkut, a Kurdish student who was shot dead by police at Nevruz celebrations in the Bağlar district of southeastern Diyarbakır province on March 21 on suspicion that
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A man from eastern province of Van was arrested on Saturday for removing the Turkish flag from the window of a public bus. E.T. removed the flag during a ride in Adnan Menderes district of Van as passengers on the bus reacted him. Upon complaint of fellow passengers, E.T. was detained. A court arrested him
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Sinan Oğan, a politician who was previously expelled from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), was attacked on Sunday in Yozgat province while campaigning to persuade people to vote “no” in a critical referendum on April 16 that will introduce an executive presidency in the country if approved. “First the dais was taken down, then
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Six people were detained in the eastern province of Bingöl on Thursday on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda from their social media accounts, according to a statement from the Bingöl Governor’s Office. The detainees are accused of promoting the propaganda of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), both of which
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