A teacher of 25 years, who was dismissed from profession last week over his alleged links with the Gülen movement, committed suicide in his house late on Sept 6, several media outlets reported. A decree issued last week under post-coup attempt emergency rules has led to dismissals of 50,589 civil servants and banned their employment […]
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Hardly a day passes lately without a letter from those who have fled Turkey amid widespread purge that was launched following the July 15 military coup attempt. What follows is a translation of a recently-received one in which a family, sympathizer of the Gulen Movement, a.k.a. Hizmet, talk over their experience in leaving the country.
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As part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, 73 more military personnel have been dismissed from the Turkish Air Forces, Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. “Dismissals have been made with the utmost sensitivity. Heroic soldiers who are faithful to the state and the nation are in charge. The military will get stronger
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The National Police Department warned all its personnel to obey international rules of detention and to stop using unofficial detention centers days before a delegation from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) was to pay a visit to Turkey in order to ascertain if people in custody are subject to any maltreatment, according
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The opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has joined the ranks of others who disclosed the insider tips about right violations following the July 15 coup attempt. In a series of tweets on Aug. 20, Tanrıkulu also backed up some of the accusations raised by the Amnesty International which stated that detainees
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Police in Istanbul’s Esenler province displayed seized books of Fethullah Gülen as evidence of terror. In a statement on Monday, Esenler police said it has detained 31 suspects as part of investigations into the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, so far. While 14 of the suspects were
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A total of 10 faculty members from Sakarya University were arrested over coup charges, bringing up the already high-number of arrested faculty members jailed over their alleged ties to the July 15 failed coup bid. Police earlier detained 11 Sakarya University academics over their ties to the Gulen Movement which the government accuses of masterminding
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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 225 people were arrested, while 255 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 36 provinces across Turkey.
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International civil society organizations have condemned the Turkish government for abusing an ongoing state of emergency in the country to suppress freedom of expression and have called on the government to immediately and unconditionally release all journalists detained without evidence in Turkey and to cease its harassment of the few remaining independent and opposition media
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Ümit Kardaş, a lawyer representing journalist Lale Kemal, who was jailed as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, has said his client faces the risk of dying in prison due to ongoing health problems, the T24 news website reported on Tuesday. Kardaş also called on all journalist organizations for sensitivity concerning former
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