An Ankara court has ruled to block Ozguruz.org website, a German-based online news portal launched on Jan. 24 by exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar. The website was blocked only 2 days after Dündar’s official announcement. “I was wondering when they would block it. Those who banned an unpublished book, blocked a website just to start… They think so… […]
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The tweets of renowned cartoonist Carlos Latuff have been withheld in Turkey after he drew five children who were left alone in tears in front of an Ankara prison after their mother was detained while they were visiting their father in prison on Jan. 23. Latuff tweeted on Thursday that he received screenshots from Turkish
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“I will get you arrested,” construction firm Folkart Yapı Chairman Mesut Sancak has yelled at local journalist Nivent Kurtuluş who reported on the businessman’s allegedly corrupt business ties, threatening her with tightened security measures in the aftermath of the coup attempt. Mesut Sancak, also the brother of a pro-government media tycoon Ethem Sancak, is accused
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The Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Yıldırım were detained on Wednesday as part of the crackdown against Turkey’s Kurdish political movement. Earlier on Wednesday, HDP deputies Mehmet Emin Adıyaman and İmam Taşçıer were detained. All of the deputies were released after their testimonies during the day. Baydemir had served as mayor
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As part of the ongoing purge in Turkey, detention warrants were issued on Wednesday for 52 dismissed members of the country’s Supreme Court of Appeals as 26 of them were detained in Ankara on same day. The jurists had already been purged by the decrees issued under state of emergency that has been effective in
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Some 25 people raided the headquarters of Public Employees Union (Kamu-Sen) and threatened the chairman İsmail Koncuk after beating private security personnel at the building on Tuesday. The angry crowd chanted slogans against Koncuk’s recent objection to the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans to boost his presidential powers. According to Yeniçağ daily, the group had
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Namesake with Turkey’s major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, a Kahramanmaraş man changed his surname after he was detained on multiple occasions. The owner of a grocery store in 8,000-people Andırın district in Kahramanmaraş, Öksüz was detained by law enforcement agencies for several times, which have been on manhunt for the alleged coup plotter who was
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Mehmet Şahin Işık, who was earlier briefly detained for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been given 14-month jail sentence over same the charge. A day after a deadly ISIL bombing killed 107 people near Ankara railway station in Oct. 2015., Işık joined several others to protest the incident in the Aegean province
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