Police have detained at least 331 Turkish soldiers in Tekirdağ province in Turkey’s Marmara region as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, which Turkish authorities blame for a failed coup last year. According to the Hürriyet daily, a Tekirdağ court has recently issued detention warrants for 331 soldiers as part of an investigation […]
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Cumhuriyet daily’s website editor Oğuz Güven was given 3 years and 1 month jail time on two separate terror charges on Tuesday. Arrested in May due to a tweet on the newspaper’s Twitter account regarding the death of Denizli Chief Public Prosecutor Mustafa Alper, who was killed in a car accident in the southwestern province
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A Turkish family of five has reportedly drowned after a boat capsized in the Aegean Sea, off the western coast of Turkey, according to several Turkish media outlets. The victims have reportedly been sought by the Turkish government over their links to the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in July 15, 2016.
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A group of public servants who were fired from their jobs with decrees issued by the Turkish gov’t in the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt, has opened a restaurant in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. According to the Haberdar news portal, the 22 purge-victim public servants who were fired several days after the coup attempt
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At least 666 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 666 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Oct 13-20. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while
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Rana Ozturk, a mother of three children and the wife of Engin Ozturk who has been under arrest for 15 months over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, suffered a heart attack, media reported on Nov 18. Engin, a former employee of the now-defunct International Antalya University, was the sole breadwinner of the Ozturk family
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Feti Ün, an Izmir lawyer who represented Fethullah Gulen from 1990 to 1994, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. The court in charge initially ruled for 8-year jail time and then increased the imprisonment by half to 12 years in compliance with the anti-terror laws. Under
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A Turkish woman who gave birth to her baby 40 days ago, has been kept under police custody along with her newborn over the past four days, according to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu. “Today marks UN’s Childrens’ Rights Day; D.B. and her 40 days old baby, named Ömer, have been
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The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into the Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Joon H. Kim, former SDNY Attorney Preet Bharara, and some others who are involved in the prosecution of the Turkish Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab. The investigation was launched on the grounds that
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Birol Kay, an electrician who was arrested in early August 2016 on coup charges, was allegedly rushed to the hospital with a heart attack on Thursday. A social media user with the username “@demokrat342” on Thursday took to Twitter to claim that Kaywho has been held in a prison in Edirne for the past 15 months,
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