Berzan Güneş, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya online news agency has been put in pre-trial detention due to his social media postings. Güneş was rounded up in the eastern province of Sirnak upon an earlier warrant early Monday. He appeared before the court on accusations of making propaganda on behalf of a terror group […]
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At least 492 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 568 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between June 4-11. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016
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A Turkish man, claimed to be a teacher with an outstanding arrest warrant over his links to the Gulen movement, has died during his long overdue treatment at hospital while his wife has been reportedly detained at the funeral. Several social media accounts claimed Sunday that Esra Celik was detained during the funeral of her
Three people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Konya early Sunday. Arrest warrants were issued against several people who are believed to be hiding from the police due to their affiliation to Gulen movement in Konya’s Selcuk district. On Sunday, police raided an apartment
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The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Human Rights Council has called on the Turkish government to immediately release Mesut Kaçmaz and Meral Kaçmaz, a couple that was abducted from their home after midnight in Lahore on September 27, 2017 and deported illegally by the Pakistani government to Turkey just two days before
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At least 25 people were detained as part of an investigation into 5 associations that were earlier closed by the government over their links to the Gulen movement, on Thursday. Detention warrants were issued for 64 people who used to work at the following, Istanbul-based associaitons: Zühal Businesswomen Association, Historical and Cultural Studies Association, Mehtap
An Igdir man, identified as A.B., who shared the same cell with people jailed over Gulen links told prosecutors, in an attempt to tap into the effective remorse law, that his cellmates “would not even support Turkish national soccer team” against its rivals. Hurriyet newspaper reported Friday that A.B. was giving his statement under the
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Turkish journalist Ahmet Turan Alkan, in pre-trial detention for 23 months, has lost 30 kilograms during his time behind bars, his lawyer Faruk Zorba said. “Ahmet Turan Alkan has lost 30 kilograms in prison. He did not talk about it but he has medical problems,” Zorba told the court during a hearing on Friday. The Istanbul
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Ece Sevim Öztürk, a Turkish investigative journalist who produced a documentary on a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and promised to shock Turkey with her forthcoming book on the subject, was detained on Friday on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda,” according to a report by Çağdaş Ses, the left-wing online news outlet she
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At least 30 high school students were detained in Istanbul after they protested the government for its education policies. A video footage posted online on Friday showed riot police beating some of those students inside a police van. “We were held under custody for hours. They cracked my head on three points. They split my
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