At least 20 of eighty university students who were detained by Ankara police last week, were put in pre-trial detention on Wednesday over alleged links to Gulen group. According to the Bold news, among the arrestees is the son of Ali Özer, a 48-year-old medical doctor who died of a heart attack in Çorum Prison […]
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Access to opposition news portal Oda TV was blocked by a Turkish court late on Thursday. The court ruling came a day after Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was sent to prison over his reports regarding the 34 Turkish soldiers who were killed in airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib last week.
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Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was sent to prison late on Wednesday, according to Turkish media. Terkoğlu was reportedly put in pre-trial detention over his reports regarding the 34 Turkish soldiers who were killed in airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday. He was detained by Turkish police in a house
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Barış Terkoğlu, the news director of the Oda TV news portal, was detained by Turkish police in a house raid early on Wednesday morning, according to journalist Barış Pehlivan. “Oda TV’s news director, my frined, journalist Barış Terkoğlu was detained by police in a house raid in the wee hours of the morning, just like
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Zekiye Ataç, the mother of an 8-year-old cancer patient, has finally been allowed to accompany her son for treatment abroad, following an exhaustive, months-long struggle aided by human rights activists and public figures to overturn a travel ban imposed on her due to an investigation over Gülen links. Haluk Levent, a Turkish rock star and
Faruk Güllü, one of the owners of the leading baklava maker Güllüoğlu Baklava, was given a prison sentence of eight years, nine months over links to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The group denies any involvement in the attempt. The same court also ruled for Güllü’s release due to
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Arlet Natali Avazyan, an Armenian-origin Turkish human rights activist, was detained following a police raid on her house on Tuesday. The reason for her detention is currenlty unknown. Avazyan is known in Turkey with her tweets that are in critical of the Turkish government. Last week, She launched a fundraising campaign and raised €50,000 in
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A prosecutor is seeking life in prison for Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and a human rights activist, for “seeking to overthrow the government” through the Gezi Park protests in 2013. According to the Turkish media, two other suspects — Yiğit Aksakoğlu and Mücella Yapıcı — are also facing life in prison on similar charges.
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Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines has fired one of its pilots after he openly criticized the Turkish government on a live TV interview following a Pegasus passenger plane skidding off the runway last Wednesday. Bahadır Altan, a former military pilot who was working for the company as a technical consultant and trainer, tweeted Saturday that his contract
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An online petition has been launched to re-unite an eight-year-old Turkish kid who is receiving cancer treatment in Germany, with his mother, who is not allowed to leave Turkey due to a travel ban. The kid — Ahmet Burhan Ataç, — went to Germany on January 26 for a cancer treatment without his parents as
