Italian lawyer Barbara Spinelli was not allowed to enter Turkey as she was told to return to her country at Istanbul Airport on Friday. According to Italian newspaper La Stampa Spinelli was expected to spend the night at the Istanbul Airport until she catches the next flight to the Italia. Focused on human rights issues […]
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Mehmet Bayındır, the elected head of Sanayi neighborhood in Diyarbakır’s Bismil district for 10 years, was dismissed for using the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş as his profile picture on Facebook. Bayındır was also reported to have shared on his social media a picture of his colleague Abdullah Beğik with Abdullah Öcalan,
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A video widely shared on Twitter on Friday night shows patrol teams on streets of Diyarbakır’s Sur district forcing school kids and their parents to remove their coats and show their naked bellies to ensure they carry no explosives. In the video that apparently was recorded by other police officers in patrol car during days
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Başar Arslan, former publisher of Taraf newspaper had an arrest warrant issued against him on accusation of membership to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of organizing a coup attempt on July 15. Taraf was earlier shut down with a post-coup government decree. An Istanbul court issued detention warrant for Arslan while police failed
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A 36-year-old man, Ramazan Kabaağaç, who killed his 69-year-old uncle, Ahmet Kahya, in a public market in Antalya last year, has said in his court statement that his uncle was a leader of “FETÖ,” a derogatory term used by government circles to refer to the faith-based Gülen movement. The incident took place on Oct. 21,
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Said Sefa, a columnist and the editor-in chief of Haberdar news portal said his father passed away but that he is not able to attend the funeral. Sefa announced in a frankly written article on Friday that his father had long been suffering from stomach cancer. “If something happens to me, do not even dare
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At a time when the Turkish lira has fallen to fresh record lows against both the US dollar and the euro, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the depreciation of the lira was the result of an operation targeting Turkey and there is no difference between a terrorist holding a gun and one having foreign
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Germany-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) said some of its preachers acted as informants against the sympathizers of the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of attempting a military coup on July 15. Denying any involvement from the beginning, the movement has been complaining that Turkish government is using every means to round up
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Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that in the last six months alone authorities had received complaints from informants of “terrorist propaganda” for 68,774 social media users on Facebook and Twitter. Based on the informants’ complaints, 21,723 social media users have been identified, and 3,681 of them have been detained. A total of
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A total of 89 Turkish citizens have so far sought asylum from the Norwegian government since a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, a Norwegian newspaper reported on Friday. According to the VG daily, the asylum seekers, including high-ranking military officers, diplomats, teachers and businessmen, said in their applications that they would face arrest
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