At least 120 people including on-duty soldiers and gendarmerie personnel have been detained by Turkish police over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the pro-government Yeni Şafak reported. According to the report, the detentions took place in at least 10 provinces including Samsun, Gaziantep, Yalova, Istanbul and Ankara. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July […]
At least 568 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 March 19-26. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016
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A Kayseri-based businessman, identified as I.C., was detained near the Turkey-Greece border in Edirne, reportedly on his way to escape the government’s post-coup crackdown. I.C. was rounded up in Edirne’s Kesan district, 100 meters away from the border, with a fake ID found on him, on March 22. An arrest warrant was issued for I.C.
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Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over their links to the Gulen movement to commit suicide. “FETO supporters should be forced in an appropriate way to commit suicide. Because these vile people do not seem to behave sensibly unless they die,” he tweeted on March 26. Duygun’s
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At least 16 people affiliated with the Erzincan-based Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Association (PSAKD), have been put in pre-trial detention for “providing support to a terrorist organization,” the Birgün daily reported. According to the report, among the arrestees are Erol Yeter, deputy chair of the PSAKD, and Akın Demir, local director of the PSKAD in Erzincan.
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Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a military coup on July 15, 2016, has stated that “I respond to what is said about me, and I don’t run from either prosecution or debate. But the accusations must be a bit rational and fair. I got
On March 2, 2018, four members of a Turkish family were killed in a car crash while driving back from an Erzurum prison where another member of the family is being held as a post-coup prisoner. Today, that prisoner was released for a day to pay a visit to the graves of his family members.
At least 7 student have been detained by police at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University for participating in protests agains Turkey’s Afrin operation, the Dİken news portal reported. Detentions came only a day after Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on Saturday that the government will “clean communist and terrorist students” out of Turkish universities. According to the report
An Ankara prosecutor is seeking a sentence of up to 54 months in prison for one of the co-founders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Abdüllatif Şener, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his Twitter messages. According to the Hürriyet daily, One of Erdoğan’s lawyers, Ahmet Özel, filed a complaint against
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The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) has completely block access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, by March 16, 2018, the Diken news portal reported. Among the prohibited networds are Tor Project, VPN Master, Hotspot Shield VPN, Psiphon, Zenmate VPN, TunnelBear, Zero VPN, VyprVPN, Private Internet Access VPN, Espress VPN, IPVanish VPN. In a related development,
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