At least 765 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 765 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Feb 26 to March 5. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the […]
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A number Islamic books by Kurdish scholar Said Nursi and his late Turkish follower Fethullah Gulen have been seized as part of an investigation into the latter’s Hizmet movement. Media reported March 3 that Adana police carried out an operation against 21 people wanted for their ties to the Hizmet, also known as Gulen movement.
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The Culture Ministry has appointed a trustee panel to Turkey Musical Work Owners’ Association (MESAM), ousting the existing management ahead of the union’s general assembly. Established to protect performing rights of music producers in 1986, MESAM has, since then, signed up over 9,000 members including authors, composers, arrangers and publishers. The ministry dismissed the current board
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Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist human rights activist, has visited the grave of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group. Saçılık, who lost his right arm in a
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A Turkish court on Feb. 16 handed down aggravated life sentences to three prominent journalists and three other defendants on charges of attempting to destroy the constitutional order even after Turkey’s highest court had ruled for the release of one of them. Ahmet Altan, a prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper,
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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, Aktif Haber online news portal said Thursday. Four members of the Aydin family died while a woman from the same family, identified as
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Gökhan Açıkkollu was a history teacher in İstanbul. What makes him memorable is that he is one of the hunreds of thousands of people who have been victimized by an ongoing purge carried out by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Açıkkollu was detained on July 24, 2016 on coup and
The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com. The BTK barred access to Ahval citing Law No. 5651, approved by the Turkish Parliament in February 2014 to regulate Internet broadcasting. Ahval, which was established by veteran Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar in November 2017, is known for
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An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan to an additional five years, 11 months in prison on terror-related charges. The ruling came one week after Altan was sentenced by another court to aggravated life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on Feb. 16, 2018 over
The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has banned the broadcasting of a total of 208 songs, 142 Turkish and 66 Kurdish, on its 14 TV stations for reasons that were not made clear to the public. According to the Hürriyet daily, Some of these songs are performed by famous Turkish singers such as
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