Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Sunday strongly criticized people who have condemned a new state of emergency decree that gives immunity to civilians who take part in thwarting coup and terror incidents, saying they’re no different than coup plotters, Cumhuriyet reported. “We have issued a law to protect our heroic citizens who advanced on […]
A pro-democracy organisation called “United for Democracy — Demokrasi için Birlik” has launched a campaign for the lifting of the state of emergency in Turkey, reported by online news outlet Ahval on Saturday. It was declared in July 2016 after a failed coup attempt organised by a group of rouge army officials and bureaucrats. Many international observers criticised the government,
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A group of Turkish activists from different walks of life have joined in an open letter in support Osman Kavala, the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, and one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen who was put in pretrial detention in Nov 1, 2017. In the letter, Kavala’s former and current colleagues wished him a happy New Year. Along
At least two people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Dec 10. State-run Anadolu news agency gendarmerie, acting upon an earlier tipoff, found two people, identified as B.A. and A.A. hiding near a steam bed in the Eskiköy village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province
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At least four people have already committed suicide for being investigated over ByLock mobile app that they had never downloaded, according to human rights defender Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday stated that 11,480 GSM users were found to have been involuntarily directed to mobile phone application ByLock and that
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A theater play performed by Duygu Şahlar, a teacher who was removed from her job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, was banned in 5 districts of the western province of Mugla. District governors of Milas, Datça, Marmaris, Fethiye and Bodrum said: “…the staging of the theater play, Bi’şey Anlatıcam (I am gonna tell
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Halime Kaman, a Turkish national who gave birth some 25 days ago at an İstanbul hospital, was reportedly arrested by an İstanbul court on Friday, according to several Turkish media outlets and Twitter accounts. According to the @magduriyetlertr, Kaman gave birth to a baby in İstanbul on December 1, 2017, and was detained by police on
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Şentürk Çoban, the security manager of the Highway Shopping Mall in Turkey’s Bolu province has died following a heart attack during a court appearance. Çoban who spent some 6 months before being released pending trial on accusations of membership to the Gulen movement, suffered a heart attack during a court hearing in Bolu, local media
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it was appalled by a new Turkish decree that introduces single uniform for people imprisoned in the government’s post-coup purge. In a written statement on Thursday, RSF said the “arbitrary measure will violate the right of dozens of detained Turkish journalists to be presumed innocent.” According to government’s new post-coup
Detention warrants have been issued for 23 academics and other staff members of Hacettepe University in Ankara as part of an investigation into the Gülen group launched by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Thursday. According to the report, police has detained 7 of 23 suspects in operations
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