Turkish prosecutors have found that a doctor who committed suicide after being removed from his job over his alleged use of ByLock mobile app did not actually use the application, the Evrensel daily reported on Thursday. Shortly after he was fired from his job at the İzmir-based Katip Çelebi University Hospital in February 2017 as […]
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Arrest warrant has been issued for exiled journalist Hayko Bagdat for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported March 30 that a Turkish court issued the warrant since Bagdat failed to show up for his trial over a column he wrote back in 2015. Bagdat, in his column, claimed that Erdogan targeted journalists with
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US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the arrest of Turkish nationals in Kosovo showed a callous disregard for human rights and rule of law. According to New York Times and Balkan Insight online newspaper on Friday, HRW said Kosovo showed disregard for human rights with such decision. “In addition to the questionable arrests,
US-based Human Rights Foundation has asked, in an urgent letter, to free 6 Gulenists, arrested facing deportation to Turkey at the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s order. Kosovo police early arrested the Gülenists who used to work at a group of schools affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday expressed satisfaction with an operation to abduct six Turkish nationals linked to the Gülen movement in Kosovo carried out by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization and vowed to bring all people affiliated with the movement to Turkey in similar operations. “Our National Intelligence Organization, in cooperation with Kosovo’s intelligence
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The wife of Kahraman Demirez, one of the six Gulenists abducted by Turkish intelligence agency in Kosovo, has said the abductees are still kept at Turkish embassy, calling on people for support. “We are now sure that our husbands are being kept at Turkish embassy. We are waiting here. The number of police officers is
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Amnesty International’s (AI) local branch in UK’s Kirklees distict has called on Kosovar government to avoid extradition of Turkish teachers abducted on Thursday. “Turkey chair Taner Kilic’s unlawful arrest in Turkey has showed us the arbitrariness in Turkey’s judiciary. Extradition of Turkish teachers to Turkey without due process is a severe mistake and should be
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Kosovo police have arrested five Turkish nationals working at a group of schools affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of masterminding a failed coup attempt in 2016, The Associated Press and Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. A source who has knowledge of the arrests
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Ümit Horzum, a former public servant who was removed from his job at Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) in a government’s post-coup emergency decree, has been missing for 111 days while his wife has found his car abandoned with a deflated tire in Ankara. “WITH MY OWN EFFORTS, I found my husband’s car with one of
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Serap Öztürk, a Turkish woman and the mother of a 2-month-old baby (pictured above) has been arrested by a Turkish court over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to a twitter account named @magduriyetlert, Öztürk was detained on March 21 in İstanbul and sent
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