Two couples were detained along with four children in Edirne while they were on their way to escape to Greece, on Monday. Gendarmerie rounded up former Family Ministry employee B.K.; his wife, a former academic V.K; a former auditor at Labor Ministry, A.T; and his wife, a former doctor T.Ç. near Kadıdondurma village. The four are […]
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An İstanbul court on Monday accepted an indictment against 29 Turkish journalists, who were arrested after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, over alleged membership in a “terrorist organization.” The indictment, prepared by İstanbul prosecutor Murat Çağlak, calls for 10-year jail sentences for the journalists, most of whom worked for media outlets affiliated with
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Seventy members and administrators from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in İstanbul on Monday following raids on their homes. After İstanbul prosecutors issued detention warrants for 104 HDP members and administrators, police teams on Monday conducted raids in 104 locations and detained as many as 70 people. Special forces units and helicopters
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An İstanbul court on Monday accepted an indictment against 235 police officers, who were arrested after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, for having bank accounts at the now-closed Gülen-affiliated Bank Asya and for using a smart phone application known as ByLock. The application is considered by the Turkish government to be “proof” of
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At least 31 former public workers were detained during a demonstration to protest their dismissals in Malatya province, on Saturday. The Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK) members organized a demonstration against the government’s purge of critics in the aftermath of July 15. At least 130,000 people have lost their jobs over their links to the
Professor Yüksel Taşkın, one of 330 academics recently dismissed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), gave a lesson in the midst of falling snow in İstanbul, the t24 news website reported on Sunday. “If you only focus on the injustices you face, that would be a big shame because the conscience has unity.
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Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 8, 477 people have been detained while 2,603 of them have been arrested due to their alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) over the past five months. Soylu said operations against the PKK intensified during winter and the Turkish security forces entered
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A group of police officers mopped the floor with a Turkish journalist covering protests against the dismissal of 330 academics from universities by a government decree issued on Tuesday night. A man, who is believed to be a journalist given a permanent press card pinned on his shirt, was reportedly hospitalized after he was dragged
With police brutality already proven to have increased in the recent protests across the country, Ali Genç, an abusive officer who was involved in a violent arrest took it to the next level, asking for his colleagues’ opinion to dodge charges. “Do some makeup” to have bruises, one of his colleagues responded to the Facebook
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Turkey’s Doğan Media Group has fired İrfan Değirmenci, a presenter on Kanal D, because he declared on social media that he would vote “no” in a referendum that will be held April 16 on constitutional amendments which will open the way to a switch from a parliamentary system of governance to an executive presidency, news
