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 12 people were arrested, while 127 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at least 13 provinces […]
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The government has reportedly taken another step to segregate Gülen movement from society with the Finance Minister Naci Ağbal ordering tax offices to exclude people linked to the Turkey’s new scapegoat from the recently-announced debt restructuring program. Turkish government accuses the movement of not only masterminding the July 15 coup attempt but also of many
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A total of seven Turkish citizens were detained while they were attempting to flee to Romania over Bulgaria, according to Turkish media. Seven people including three police officers dismissed under post-coup emergency rules, an Osmaniye based reporter for the government-confiscated Zaman newspaper, a teacher, an academic and a small business owner were detained by Bulgarian
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has prohibited individuals in Silivri Prison who are currently under arrest over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement from communicating with the outside world during an ongoing state of emergency, the Sözcü daily reported on Monday. A three-month-long state of emergency went into effect in Turkey following
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The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Monday that a record number of individual petitions have been received by the court, with more than 40,000 submitted following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan told a law congress held in İstanbul under the auspices of the Office of the
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The American Booksellers Association (ABA) joined American publishers, authors, and librarians in a letter urging U.S. President Barack Obama to protest the widespread suppression of free speech in Turkey during his September 4 meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan in China. In the letter co-signed by the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild, PEN America, and
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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 183 people were arrested, while 49 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at
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Personal stories are just tip of the iceberg in understanding what victims of Turkey’s post-coup purge have been getting though. Yet, they are the only means that one could take serious instead of Turkish media outlets which fully embraced the government narrative. Even though the government rules out any unjust treatment on whom it considers
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People imprisoned as part of a government crackdown on the Gülen movement are being systematically tortured in the most barbaric ways including rape, removal of nails and the insertion of objects into their anuses, according to the president of a leading lawyers association. Allegations of ill-treatment of Turkey’s post-coup prisoners are becoming more widespread; in
Turkey’s General Director of Prisons and Detention Houses, Enis Yavuz Yıldırım, said on Friday that Turkey’s prisons are now over capacitated with nearly 40,000 new arrests following the failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the information shared by Yıldırım at Human Rights Commission in the Turkish parliament on Friday, there are nearly 195,000 prisoners in 372 prisons across Turkey which is four percent
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