Ali Ulvi Oğur, a retired teacher, have been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court on accusations of disseminating the propaganda of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in social media messages concerning a Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, […]
At least six people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to illegally cross into Greece. State-run Anadolu news agency said Tuesday that gendarmerie stopped a car near Umurca village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province with Greece. In the car were four former public servants who were dismissed from their jobs in the
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Haydar Ergul, an editor for the quarterly Demokratik Modernite magazine has been put in pretrial detention. Detained at Diyarbakir airport on Jan 16, Ergul was asked about the articles published at Demokratik Modernite, pro-Kurdish ETHA news agency said Tuesday. Ergul was jailed after he spent 5 days under police custody on charges of membership to
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The Ordu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 16 military personnel of various ranks as part of an investigation into people claimed to have links to the Gülen group, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report, 12 of the 16 have been detained in operations in nine provinces.
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Turkish public prosecutor’s offices on Sunday issued detention warrants for at least 41 people on accusations of disseminating the propaganda of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in social media messages concerning a Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup crackdown only years after the events take place as Australia did for the Aborigines, the US did for the Native Americans and Turkey did for the Armenians. Uçum’s remarks came during a recent
Zeynep Şura, a 7-month-old girl when she was jailed along with her mother, was released from prison after the government pardoned the latter over her alleged ByLock use. Under arrest for 475 days, Zeynep Şura was released along with her mother on Jan 17, GriHat online news portal said Saturday. Turkish authorities believe ByLock is
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its World Report 2018 on Thursday that Turkey’s State of Emergency (OHAL) Procedures Investigation Commissions are not independent of the government interference. “In January, the government ruled on the establishment of an ad hoc commission to review decisions made under the state of emergency. The commission lacks independence since
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An Antalya couple, dismissed from their offices as judge and prosecutor, were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement. The former judge, identified as Ayse D., was rounded up along with her husband Hakan D., a former prosecutor, following a police raid at an apartment in Antalya’s Konyaalti district. The couple who
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Veli Büyükşahin and Veli Haydar Güleç, the two journalists from the now-defunct TV 10 television channel were put in pretrial detention on Thursday. TV10 is one of at least 180 media outlets the government shut down in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Detained on accusations of membership to a terror group,
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