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Gov’t-backed trustee turns Armenian cemetery into public toilet: report

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A government appointed trustee, tasked to run Van’s Edremit Municipality, has built public toilets on an Armenian cemetery in the district, the proKurdish Dİhaber news portal reported on Tuesday. The report claimed that the bones from the cemetery were scattered after the toilets were installed on the site. 24 graves were discovered around the mound […]

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Video purportedly shows Turkish soldiers beat Syrian refugees

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A graphic video circulating on social media that purportedly shows Turkish soldiers beating a group of young Syrian refugees who were caught trying to enter Turkey, has prompted an investigation by the Turkish military and prosecutors. In a video footage, posted on Twitter on July 31, several Turkish soldiers are seen beating the refugees and asking

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Ultra-nationalists hurl stones at Istanbul synagogue: report

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A group of ultra-nationalists affiliated with Alperen Hearths, an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement called the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), gathered in front of the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul on Thursday night and kicked the synagogue’s gates while throwing stones in protest of Israel’s security measures at Temple Mount. Israeli government installed some metal detectors at the holly

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Pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülenists, even their babies, a religious obligation

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Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for pro-government Milat and Yenisöz dailies, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is “a religious obligation for Turkish state,” the Haberdar daily reported. “Honorable Turkish state needs to reveal its power. Killing FETÖ members is a religious obligation,” Adalan said in a tweet he posted several days

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Pro-gov’t Sabah daily sets up hotline to profile Gulenists in Europe

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The pro-government Sabah daily has established a hotline to receive tips about the the Europe-based followers of the Gülen Movement, which the President along with top state officials pinned the blame on for the July 15 coup attempt. Sabah Avrupa, the newspaper’s special edition for Turkish expats in Germany called on its readers to snitch

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Principal of Gülen-linked school, businessman abducted in Malaysia

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Turgay Karaman, the principal of Time International School in Ipoh, Malaysia, was abducted by unidentified persons as he left his house for a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. According to a report submitted by Karaman’s lawyer to the Kuala Lumpur police on Tuesday, Karaman was abducted by five men while he was going to

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Swiss policeman of Turkish origin arrested for alleged spying against Erdogan critics

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A Basel-based traffic cop with Turkish origin has been arrested on accusation that he was involved in spying activities against critics of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Switzerland. According to a local newspaper, the 37-year-old police officer, identified with initials Y.S., extracted personal data of a Turkish expat in the Swiss city of Basler

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