The Beyoğlu district governor’s office in İstanbul banned a journalism awards ceremony named after Kurdish dissident writer and activist Musa Anter and planned to be held at a hotel in İstanbul on Thursday evening due to an ongoing state of emergency in Turkey. According to the Bianet website, the local governor’s office send a letter […]
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The Turkish Education Ministry has issued a decision to immediately recall seventh grade social studies textbooks due to a page on press censorship by the government, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, the ministry distributed thousands of books to seventh grade students. The book had a chapter on press freedom that
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Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has identified 31,000 previously unknown ByLock users, among whom are employees of important public agencies, according to the state-run TRThaber news portal. According to the daily, the new list will soon be submitted to the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office for a formal indictment. Turkish government believes using ByLock is a sign
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A total of nine teachers who used to work for a private college, linked to the Gulen movement, were detained on Tuesday. The suspects, earlier removed from their jobs under emergency rule, were rounded up as part of a post-coup probe in Mugla’s resort district of Bodrum. Once teachers at the movement-linked Merter Anatolian High
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Turkish state has been tolerating post-coup abductions even though its involvement has yet to be backed up with hard evidence, according to online news portal Politico’s Europe edition. “There is no hard evidence of the Turkish state’s involvement in the recently documented disappearances, and the identities of the kidnappers remain a mystery. But the case of
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said there is no journalist who was imprisoned in Turkey that those in prisons are only terrorists and thieves. Speaking to a business forum in US on Wednesday, Erdoğan said Turkey arrested scores of journalists not because of their journalistic activities but because of criminal records. “The ones who have been
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An İstanbul court on Tuesday ruled for a continuation of the pretrial detention of 21 journalists, former employees of the Zaman newspaper, which was shut down by the government last year. According to the decision of the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court during a hearing at the Silivri Prison compound, the journalists’ request to be
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The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Tuesday took out an advertisement in the Metro New York newspaper criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is attending the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, for his crackdown on opposition in Turkey. In a tweet from @HRF on Tuesday, the rights group said, “We
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A total of 31 people, including shopkeepers, housewives have been detained by police teams in Isparta province over alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. According to the Hürriyet daily, police teams early on Tuesday morning conducted simultaneous raids in several Isparta districts including Yenişarbademli, Yalvaç, Uluborlu, Senirkent, Keçiborlu, Gelendost and Eğirdir.
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A total of 17 suspects including journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan appeared before the court on Tuesday for the second hearing of the trial, Cumhuriyet daily reported. The suspects, who are being held as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed
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