At least 53 people were arrested, while 205 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 14provinces across Turkey. The arrestees over the past day included university personnel; teachers, academics, pharmacists, shopkeeper and court personnel.
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Siirt Bar Association President Mehmet Cemal Acar was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup attempt in July. Police raided Acar’s house and office on Wednesday morning and subsequently detained him. Detention warrants were also issued for eight other individuals, some
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The disciplinary board of the Galatasaray football club on Wednesday expelled from membership three former players and two former governors who are currently under investigation over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The former football players are Hakan Şükür, Arif Erdem and İsmail Demiriz, while the governors are former Bursa Governor Şehabettin Harput and
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The Turkish government has postponed the scheduled visit of Juan E. Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, to the county, which has been beset by allegations of torture, maltreatment and rape against detainees in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt. “While I understand that the developments in Turkey during the last months demand
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Eye doctor Ayhan Yılmaz has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules, according to his journalist brother İsmail Hakkı Yılmaz. Bursa police raided house of Dr. Yılmaz and took him under custody on August 24. According to information gathered by his journalist brother, Yılmaz was sent to the
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A total of 12 people, among them a 72-year-old Turkish man, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak on Monday. The elderly man, known by initials H.A., was brought to the court for testimony by the help of gendarmerie officers with a stick on
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The lifeless body of a kindergarten principal, Ali Derebaşı, whose wife was among the thousands of teachers who have been suspended from their posts due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, was found hanging in his school in Kayseri province on Monday, the first day of the new academic year in Turkey. The 42-year-old
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The 19-year-old son of a former senior counter-terrorism official in Turkey was arrested over coup charges after his father implicated links between Turkish government and the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Ahmet Yayla, who served as the chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Operations Division of Turkish National Police between 2010 and 2012
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At least 22 high school students were detained while they were protesting the government’s suspending of more than 4,500 teachers over terrorism charges in Diyarbakır, on Monday. Some 30 students gathered on Diyarbakır’s Şeyh Sait Square holding banners that read: “Don’t touch my teacher,” or “We total not 12K but millions,” in clear reference to
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A Diyarbakır man was detained after he protested detentions of 22 high-school students who were also protesting the government’s purge of teachers over terrorism charges, on Monday. Police failed to dispel a group of high-school students who gathered on Diyarbakır’s Şeyh Sait Square in protest of the government’s suspending of more than 4,500 teachers over terrorism
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