“I go to the prosecutor’s office every week and beg them, ‘Please I need my husband.’ I tell them, ‘Please, he can come [to the police station] every day to check in, he has no place to escape, he is not even guilty.’ He can sign in every day. But I just want him beside […]
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İstanbul and Ankara governors have announced on Tuesday that official celebrations planned for the spring festival of Nevruz have been cancelled due to security reasons. According to Diken news portal, the governor’s offices expressed as a justification for the cancelations concerns about possible “tension and provocations between people who will participate in the celebrations and
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The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 102 people working at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Thirty of the 102 people for whom detention warrants were issued were detained in simultaneous operations across 27 provinces as part of the Ankara-based investigation
Thirty people across 11 provinces have been detained as part of an investigation conducted by the Bodrum Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. The detainees are being accused of using a smart phone application known as ByLock, which Turkish authorities say is the top communication tool among followers of
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A popular Twitter user with the user name “bıbıcımsıfırladım” has been arrested by an İstanbul court for posting tweets that praise the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued on Feb. 22 a detention warrant for the Twitter user,
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Turkey’s Education Ministry has removed the name of world-famous Turkish pianist Fazıl Say from the draft curriculum of the music lesson in middle school, according to Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Zeynep Altıok. Altıok has submitted a parliamentary question meant for Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz in which she asked why Say’s name was taken out
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Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced on Thursday that a currently ongoing state of emergency will be extended for three more months and remain in effect until July 20. The state of emergency, known as OHAL, has been in force since July 20 of last year, after Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt on July 15.
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Atalay Filiz, on trial for a series of murders in Turkey, said in his defense that one of his victims was a Gülen movement sympathizer and that he would be under arrest if he were alive. Filiz told the court on Thursday that the father of Göktuğ Demiraslan, one of his victims, was a general
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