A Turkish court has ruled for the seizure of the assets of three former Galatasaray football club players as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement. Arrest warrants had also been issued on Wednesday for former football stars Arif Erdem, Uğur Tütüneker and İsmail Demiriz due to their alleged links to the […]
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Prize-winning novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan who was arrested last week for alleged links with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said she is being treated in a way in prison that could give permanent damage to her body. “They have not given me my medicine for 5 days. I am diabetic and my
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A Turkish judge who faced an investigation for releasing a statement in favor of the summer 2013 Gezi Park protests has been dismissed from his job over alleged links to US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) dismissed 2.847 judges and prosecutors on Wednesday for alleged links to the
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A renowned intellectual, journalist and president of the Journalists’ and Writers’ Foundation (GYV) Cemal Usak, who was among the targets of the Turkish government`s ongoing crackdown on the faith based Gulen movement, has passed away at the age of 63 while in exile. Usak had been receiving cancer treatment for the past several years. An
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Thirty-one people were arrested and eight more were released in condition of judicial control as part of government-led operations targeting Gülen movement in Konya on Thursday. As part of an investigation by Konya Public Prosecutor’s Office, 39 people were detained in several police operatios after 18 August. A Konya court ruled for the arrest of
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Index strongly condemns the indefinite closure of newspaper Özgür Gündem by a Turkish court. The silencing — even temporarily — of one of Turkey’s last independent papers underscores the severe erosion of freedom of expression in the country. This crackdown on critical voices has accelerated since the attempt to overthrow the country’s democratically elected and increasingly autocratic president
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As part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement, an İzmir court on Tuesday ruled to arrest 29 academics and staff members from the state-run İzmir Katip Çelebi University due to their alleged links to the movement. Another 11 academics and members of the staff were released by the court on judicial probation.
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Police in İzmir province displayed seized copies of national dailies critical of Turkish government and books of Fethullah Gülen as evidence of terror. Turkish police raided several houses as part of an investigation into Gülen Movement, which the government blames for the July 15 failed coup, in İzmir’s Tire district on Sunday. While five people
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The United Nations has warned Turkey that wide-ranging purges and arrests following a failed coup “go beyond what can be justified” and may violate international law. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has launched a wide-ranging crackdown since a military faction attempted to oust the president last month, arresting tens of thousands of people and removing many more
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Turks can now report people affiliated with Gulen Movement around them and lodge complaints through an Internet site set up at the initiative of the Turkish government. The portal www.fetoihbar.net has been named after FETO, an abbreviation that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan coined in order to describe the alleged network of the Gülen movement’s sympathizers
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