Eye doctor Ayhan Yılmaz has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules, according to his journalist brother İsmail Hakkı Yılmaz. Bursa police raided house of Dr. Yılmaz and took him under custody on August 24. According to information gathered by his journalist brother, Yılmaz was sent to the […]
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Turkey’s Education Ministry is set to republish 58 state-distributed textbooks in order to avoid any subliminal messages from what the government calls Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). The Undersecretary to Education Ministry Yusuf Tekin said the ministry detected subliminal messages from FETÖ in 58 books. The government accuses the Gülen Movement of masterminding the coup attempt
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The discriminative practices backed by Turkey’s top state-officials has taken a new turn with sympathizers of the Gülen Movement (a.k.a. Hizmet) being denied entry to a mosque in Germany. According to a video posted by Mehmet Cerit, the editor of Zaman Vandaag, an overseas subsidiary of the government-seized Turkish daily Zaman, a man is seen
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The Turkish-language Zaman newspaper has decided to halt its operations in Germany after its readers received threats over their subscriptions to the paper, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Friday. “Our subscribers are being visited; they are being threatened that if they continue to subscribe, they will have problems,” Süleyman Bağ, an executive at the paper,
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“The allegation about the gun attack is true. We did our part regarding the issue,” a Kırıkkale businessman proudly confessed that he carried out the attack on a store owned by an alleged follower of the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt in July. With top government officials calling on
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Dutch police on Wednesday detained a second Turkish man, a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on suspicion of death threats and hate speech made against Erdoğan critics in the Netherlands. Rotterdam police detained a 43-year-old Dutchman of Turkish descent who is suspected of having threatened critics of the Turkish president and backers of US-based
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The opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has joined the ranks of others who disclosed the insider tips about right violations following the July 15 coup attempt. In a series of tweets on Aug. 20, Tanrıkulu also backed up some of the accusations raised by the Amnesty International which stated that detainees
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Turkey purge has reached a new high with government supporters openly targeting people with the alleged ties to the Gulen Movement, which President along with top state officials accuse of masterminding the failed coup attempt. “Dear Altındağ District Director of Education Şefika Biçer, Murat Şen who was appointed by you has turned out to be
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Turkey’s ambassador to Cambodia, İlhan Tuğ has asked authorities in the Asian country to close down education institutions affiliated with the Gulen Movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. According to state-run Anadolu Agency correspondents in the capital city of Phnom Penh, Tuğ officially demanded from Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry
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