A Hatay man who was detained and later released pending trial on charges of harassing his ex-girlfriend, has reportedly been re-arrested after police detected statements insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his unwanted messages and phone calls to his victim. According to BBC Turkish, the man, Erdoğan Küpeli, was taken into custody by police a […]
A total of 17 people were taken into police custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s Bursa province on Tuesday. Bursa Public Prosecutor’s Office issued warrants for 17 suspects who used to work at now-defunct schools and a kindergarten as teachers and executives, media said Tuesday. The detainees are accused
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Ahmet Keser, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV station, on Tuesday reacted to news stories that Turkey is killing civilians in the Afrin region of Syria, saying if they were to kill civilians they would start with people critical of the government living in the Cihangir, Nişantaşı and Etiler neighborhoods of Istanbul and even
Gökhan Açıkkollu, a history 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, was found innocent one-and-a-half years later and “reinstated” to his job. The reinstatement decision, numbered E.2561776, was made by the Education
Gökhan Açıkkollu, un profesor de historia que fue torturado hasta la muerte bajo custodia policial tras un intento de golpe de estado en Turquía el 15 de julio de 2016 por su presunta pertenencia al grupo Gülen, fue declarado inocente uno año y medio después, y por ende fue “reincorporado” a su trabajo. La decisión
The Turkish Parliament stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status on Tuesday. The move came after their convictions were upheld by appeal courts. Yıldırım was earlier sentenced to 14 months in jail for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a speech in which he referred to
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer said in a written statement on Feb 27 that he was alarmed by allegations that large numbers of individuals were exposed to brutal interrogation techniques in Turkish custodies. The allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in Turkish police custody have been rising since the end of his official
Ismet Sözen, an elementary school teacher until he was dismissed by a government decree issued under post-coup emergency rule in 2016, is now earning his keep by working as a night-shift receptionist at a hotel in Bursa province. According to Cumhuriyet newspaper, Sözen was dismissed by the government decree, like some 40,000 other teachers. With
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At least 18 people were detained on Saturday after police intervened into a group of military academy students and their families during a scheduled march in Turkey’s capital. Dozens of students who were removed from military academies after the government shuttered them in its post-coup crackdown marched along with their family members to the Anitkabir,
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