A forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch that Turkey’s post-coup detainees prefer not to talk about bruises, stemmed from torture, on their body as they fear from further persecution in prison. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13 specific abuse incidents concerning […]
As part of an ongoing debate in Turkey over concerns about a spike in gun ownership, a columnist for the political Islamist Yeni Akit daily addressed those worries, saying that the people know who to shoot in the event of a threat. Abdullah Şanlıdağ wrote a response to criticism of a tendency called “AK armament,”
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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 77 people were arrested, while 135 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at
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Prison guards have been beating Salih Elitaş, a distributor for the Azadiya Welat newspaper, which has been targeted by the government, along with other people being held under arrest at Manisa Prison, his father told the Evrensel daily. Salih Elitaş has been under arrest pending trial since March. His father, Ramazan Elitaş, said his son
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In a written statement released both in Turkish and English, UK-based academic Özcan Keleş denied recent allegations about him that appeared in Turkey’s mostly pro-government media outlets, saying that only his name, his father’s name, his hometown and the fact that Aksaray is a city in Turkey were accurate in the articles. “Everything else is
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Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of staging its own coup by arresting writers, journalists and military officers in a crackdown launched after a failed coup attempt on July 15. Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15, which claimed
The infamous police officer who sprayed tear gas directly into the face of a female protestor, for which he received a suspended 20-month jail sentence, has joined the ranks of others who pin blame for any wrongdoing on Turkey’s new scapegoat, the Gülen movement. Widely shared on social media, the image of the “woman in
Eleven prison guards were detained in an İzmir-based operation on Monday targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement for their use of a smart phone application. As part of an investigation initiated by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, police conducted searches in locations in İzmir, Çorum and Rize provinces and detained 11 prison
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Co-founder and chairman of Turkey’s prominent Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) Nasuh Mahruki, who was referred to court for arrest on Monday on insult charges, has been released on judicial probation. Mahruki announced from his Twitter account on Monday that he had been referred to court for arrest on charges of insulting the country’s president.
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A Balıkesir prosecutor who died back in May was suspended from his job in a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule on Aug. 31. Ahmet Biçer was among hundreds of prosecutors who were suspended over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of orchestrating a July 15 coup attempt. In a
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