Detention orders issued for 100 Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) staff members in Ankara on suspicion of having links to the recent failed military coup attempt in Turkey, in the aftermath of which crackdown on various government bodies has escalated. Turkish media reported that a number of doctors from GATA are also included in the […]
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Turkish football authorities have fired 94 football referees in post-coup crackdown. “Our federation deemed it necessary to dismiss 94 people, including regional and nationally-ranked referees and assistant referees, regional refereeing committee members and national and regional observers,” the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) said in a statement. The backlash after the July 15 coup blamed on
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On 15 July, during the coup in Turkey, Berat Buzhala, a leading Kosovo journalist known for his satirical comments, wrote on Facebook: “I invite the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo who are holidaying in Turkey to align with the army.” The comment was signed with an Internet emoticon with a tongue protruding, indicating it
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45 international organizations from all around the world strongly denounce Turkey’s massive purge of university deans, professors. “The below listed organizations collectively note with profound concern the apparent moves to dismantle much of the structure of Turkish higher education through purges, restrictions, and assertions of central control, a process begun earlier this year and accelerating
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Boston Herald publishes an editorial on Turkey’s post-coup crackdown. “The once thriving democracy of Turkey is on the brink of becoming a gulag — its own citizens held captive, unable to leave. Since the aborted July 15 coup attempt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the arrest of thousands of judges and prosecutors, ordered the
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The Turkish government has cancelled the passports of around 50,000 people to prevent them leaving the country as a crackdown continues following a failed coup. Efkan Ala, the interior minister, said more than 18,000 have so far been detained over the attempt to oust President Tayyip Erdogan, while thousands of government staff are under investigation.
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Turkish authorities have detained wife of a critical Turkish journalist and will keep her as a hostage until her husband surrenders to police, an episode that has long symbolized police states in the Middle East and Africa, but not Turkey. Bülent Korucu, longtime top editor of Turkish weekly magazine Aksiyon and editor-in-chief of Yarina Bakis
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In a letter to Turkey’s Ambassador to Canada, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CIFE) denounced Turkish government’s recent crackdown on the free media. CIFE, urged Turkish government to ‘show restraint, uphold the rule of law and respect the right of Turkish citizens to a free press and freedom of expression.’. Same letter was also sent
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This blog is primarily designed to uncover who were behind the coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. The government was quick to blame Gulenists for the failed coup attempt. Gulen and his followers deny that they conspired against the government through the military intervention. It is difficult to identify real perpetrators, the driving force
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Since the coup attempt on July 15, the Turkish authorities sacked, fired or suspended tens of thousands of public employees and detained thousands of army officers, police officers, judges, prosecutors along with hundreds of civilians. The pace of the purge in the state bureaucracy suggests that it was well-planned way before the coup attempt took
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