Turkish police on Friday detained seven people, including two academics and three doctors, for watching a video of a speech by Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen on their mobile phones in a car in Adıyaman province, Hurriyet reported. The Gülen group is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, […]
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A report drafted by the Diyarbakır Bar Association has revealed that there has been a significant increase in the number of rights violations in Turkey’s prisons during emergency rule, which was declared in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016 and is still in effect. The report, which was prepared by the
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The Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has demanded confiscation of Boydak Holding and its related companies for giving financial support to the Gülen group, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. According to the report, the prosecutor based his demand on a Financial Crimes Investigation Board [MASAK] report that the holding maintains parallel accounting
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Members of the European Parliament have called on Turkey to lift an ongoing state of emergency declared after a failed coup in July 2016 that they say is now being used to silence dissent and opposition. “The state of emergency declared after the coup attempt of 16 July 2016 is currently being used to further
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A university student from the Turkey’s Amasya province, identified as H.N., was put in pretrial detention for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, on Wednesday. Cumhuriyet reported that H.N., an Amasya University student and a member of Turkish Communist Party (TKP), was arrested over her allegedly insulting social media postings from 2014 and
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Law professor Murat Sen has been detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Kayseri, state-run Anadolu news agency said Thursday. The dean of the Meliksah University’s law faculty until it was closed by the government over Gulen links in 2016, Sen was rounded up at his father-in-law’s home in Zonguldak and
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Wives of 13 former police officers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs over alleged ties to the Gulen movement were detained Thursday. State-run Anadolu news agency said police carried out operations in 9 provinces and detained 13 women as part of an investigation into the movement’s women’s network. The suspects are accused of having
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US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said at a press briefing on Thursday that the United States is deeply concerned about the conviction earlier in the day of Serkan Gölge on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. Gölge, a dual US-Turkish citizen and a senior NASA researcher, has been held for 18 months in
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Un informe redactado por la Asociación Diyarbakır reveló que ha habido un aumento significativo en el número de violaciones de derechos en las cárceles turcas durante el estado de emergencia, que se declaró después de un intento fallido de golpe en julio de 2016 y que sigue vigente. El informe, que fue preparado por la
