Left-wing Turkish newspaper Evrensel reported on Sunday that Zeynep Tunçel, its reader and distributor were abducted and beaten by a group of unidentified people who accused her of resisting to the government. Tunçel took a phone call from an unknown number at 8.30 am through which told her that her cousin had had a traffic […]
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Twenty-one people who had filed legal complaints against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the past were detained on Tuesday as part of operations targeting the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of being behind an attempted coup in July. According to the Doğan News agency 21 people, including teachers and businessmen, had
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Journalist Aylina Kılıç tweeted on Tuesday that she was detained by police at İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport over alleged “terrorist propaganda.” According to the tweets posted by Kılıç, she is going to appear in an Istanbul court tomorrow. “I have been detained at Istanbul airport on charges of doing terror propaganda. I deny these claims.
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A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 451 people were arrested, while 889 others were detained over the past 8 days, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at
Turkish police teams on Monday used tear gas, pressurized water and plastic bullets against a group of people from civil society organizations and bar associations which gathered in front of the Turkish Parliament against government plans to introduce a presidential system in Turkey. Representatives from the civil society organizations and bar associations were preparing to
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Turkish journalist Derya Okatan, under arrest since Dec. 25, went on hunger strike in protest of her imprisonment. Accused of being a member of a terrorist group, Okatan was detained along with 5 other journalists on Dec. 25 and arrested afterwards. Okatan was the news coordinator of Özgür Radyo until it was closed by the
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a message on Monday to celebrate Jan. 10, Working Journalists Day, as Turkey has been declared the worst jailer of journalists in the world for the second year in a row amid ever-increasing pressure on media in the country. Erdoğan underlined the importance of a free media for a developed
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A Turkish academic with a valid Malaysian visa was arrested by Malay officials on Dec. 13 upon an alleged request by Turkish authorities in Malaysia. Malay security personnel reportedly raided the house of academic İsmet Özçelik (59) on the grounds that his passport had been cancelled by Turkey over alleged involvement in a coup attempt
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A police officer who was suspended from his job due to alleged links to the Gülen movement committed suicide on Saturday shortly after he was asked to turn in his police ID and service revolver. Police officer Sadullah K. committed suicide with his service revolver at the police station in the Anatolia Courthouse in İstanbul’s
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Two disabled public workers were reported to have been dismissed in the new goverment decree Turkey announced as part of its post-coup emergency rule on Friday. Mithat Tokur, a worker with walking disability was dismissed from Turkish Employment Agency (TİK). Tokur also chairs Ankara office of the Turkish Association of the Handicapped (TSD). Meanwhile, visually impaired lawyer Arzu
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