Aydın Engin, a veteran columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily, has reported that he received two death threats last week in İstanbul. Engin was first threatened on his way to a meeting with readers at an İstanbul bookstore on Saturday. He reported that one of three youngsters who stopped him after he parked his car said, “Look […]
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An İstanbul court has issued an arrest warrant for former editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet daily and exiled journalist Can Dündar to compel his testimony in a trial concerning the now shut-down pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily. The İstanbul 22nd Penal Court issued the warrant on Thursday, with the prosecutor demanding his imprisonment for supporting terrorist organization
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Fırat News Agency (ANF) director Maxime Demiralp, who was taken into custody in Brussels on Dec. 16, was arrested by a Belgian court the next day at Turkey’s request, ANF said on Wednesday. In a statement on Wednesday, ANF said Demiralp was taken into custody on Dec. 15 by Belgian police on an INTERPOL notice
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Pervin Buldan, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul deputy said she was detained as the government tightens its grip over Kurdish politicians. Buldan, also the deputy parliamentary speaker, tweeted early Friday that she was rounded up. While details regarding the incident have yet to be announced, her detention came as the latest of Turkey’s ever-growing
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An İstanbul court on Thursday arrested Fatih Gürsul, an advisor to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities claim is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. Gürsul was interrogated by prosecutor Mehmet Şenay Baygın along with 15 other suspects
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Fethiye Provincial Directorate of National Education and 5 other employees have been arrested in Muğla as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen movement, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government accuse of being behind a failed coup attempt on July 15, the T24 news portal reported on Friday. Directorate Esma Çelik
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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 125 people were arrested, while 221 others were detained over the past 3 days, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at
A Turkish court on Thursday ordered the seizure of all assets of 54 journalists over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The decision was made by the İstanbul 11th Penal Court of Peace. Some of the journalists are already under arrest, but they have not yet stood trial and have not even been
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Amid massive detentions and arrests following a failed coup on July 15, Turkey will build 175 new prisons in 2017, according to a statement issued by Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ. Turkey decided to release 38,000 convicts in August in order to make room for alleged coup plotters as the government had initiated an unprecedented purge
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