M.S.G., an amateur football referee was rounded up after his last match, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt, last week. A university student and a referee at İzmir Regional Amateur League, M.S.G. took charge during a match between Asarlık Gençlikspor and […]
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At least 87 civilians, including academics and staff from İstanbul University (İU) were arrested early on Friday, increasing the already-high number of intellectuals taken under custody as part of an investigation into the July 15 failed coup. Turkish media outlets reported that after a prosecutor issued detention warrants for a total of 87 people across
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İrfan Koç, the owner of Onko Koçsel pharmaceutical company was detained over coup charges along with two other executives, on Thursday. According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, police took into custody the owner, Onko’s general manager Tuğçe Koç and the human resources director Ayda Onat. Investigation was launched against three after the text of
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A court in Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province on Thursday arrested Adile Kozay, the co-mayor of Yüksekova district and Hilal Duman, the co-mayor of Çukurca district on charges of alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Both co-mayors are from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the local branch of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party
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The ongoing purge of alleged coup plotters in Turkey’s armed forces has “degraded” Nato’s command operations, according to the alliance’s top general. General Curtis Scaparrotti, Nato’s supreme allied commander in Europe, said during a meeting at the headquarters of the alliance in Brussels that Turkish gov’t has expelled officers who served well in Nato, Financial
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Representatives from nine international and Turkish journalism organizations, including PEN International and Reporters Without Borders, will come together in front of Silivri Prison on Saturday in support of 146 journalists who are behind bars in Turkey. Family members of the jailed journalists will also be at Silivri Prison, where the press organizations will release a
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The Council of Europe’s (COE) expert body on legal and constitutional affairs, the Venice Commission, on Friday adopted an opinion stating that Turkey has gone too far with emergency measures after acknowledging that the country had faced a dangerous armed conspiracy. According to a press release from the commission’s legal experts, Turkey had good reason
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A private dormitory in Istanbul’s Esentepe district has become home to junkies while it has been ransacked by unknown suspects on multiple occasions since the residence was seized as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in the aftermath of the coup attempt. Opened to provide accommodation for male students at the now-closed Fatih
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Following the arrest of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) last month, Turkish police detained Hüda Kaya, another lawmaker from the party, on Thursday. Kaya was detained in İstanbul and was being taken to İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan, according to Turkish media reports. She was detained reportedly over terrorism charges due to a speech
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Thirty-five people have been detained as part of an investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into dormitories linked to the faith-based Gülen movement. The prosecutor’s office issued detention warrants for a total of 136 people across 20 provinces. Seventy of those on the detention list were allegedly using a smart phone application
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