Human Rights Abuses

Turkish commentator says her family is ready to execute people for Erdogan

Sevda Noyan, an Islamist TV commentator, said during a live TV interview that she regrets the fact that she failed to kill more people on the night of the July 15 coup attempt in 2016, adding that her family is now fully-prepared and is capable of “executing” some 50 people for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. […]

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Pro-government columnist says Gulenists are worse than Coronavirus disease

Nedim Şener, a pro-government columnist, said during a live interview that Gülenists are worse than the COVID-19 outbreak, which has recently been declared a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). “Coronovirus is a disease that may be dealth with, someday. But Feto [Gulenism] is not. It is an infidelity that does not leave one’s

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Turkish police fire water cannon at pro-Kurdish election posters: report

Turkish police have fired water cannon at election banners that promote the candidates of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)  in the upcoming municipal election in Turkey. A video footage posted by a twitter account, shows the moment police fire water cannon at posters The motives of the action is not clear at the moment.

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Pro-gov’t anchor calls for beheading of Gezi protesters

Turkish television anchor Erkan Tan, known for his staunch pro-government stance on A Haber TV, on Tuesday called for the beheading of protesters who were involved in the countrywide anti-government Gezi protests in the summer of 2013. While arguing in a column for the Takvim newspaper that there are some who would like to import

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Pro-gov’t journalist says Gulen-linked ‘fugitives’ should be abducted or killed

Pro-gov’t journalist calls for killing of Turkish businessman and individuals like him who he accused of being top Gulenists. Pro-government Turkish journalist Emre Erciş has called on Turkey’s intelligence agency to abduct or exterminate critical businessman Akın İpek and other top Gulenists following a court verdict in the UK that rejected Ankara’s request for his

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Former Turkish NATO officer reflects on his days in Ankara prison: Inmates given electric shocks to sign forced confessions

Former Lt. Cdr. Cafer Topkaya, a purged and jailed Turkish naval officer who was assigned to NATO prior to a failed coup in Turkey, has told Deutsche Welle that he is coming out of the shadows to relate what he experienced “for those who can’t meet the press, who can’t meet with journalists, who can’t

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[VIDEO] Jailed doctor did not commit suicide but died due to torture: family

Family members of İbrahim Halil Özyavuz, a medical doctor who was jailed in May over alleged links to the Gülen movement, said that Özyavuz did not commit suicide as previously reported but rather died after he was subjected to heavy torture by police officers while he was in pretrial detention. Turkish media reports had said

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Villagers tortured by soldiers in Turkey’s Hakkari, report claims

Two villagers from Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Hakkari province have been tortured for hours by a group of soldiers while they were shepherding their sheep, according to media. Mezopotampya online news agency said Friday that Ramazan Tas and Nasır Taş, two shepherds from Hakkari’s Yufkali village were stopped by a group of 8 soldiers at a rural

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‘Alternative’ medicine professor vows to take up arms if Erdogan loses June election

Ahmet Maranki, a professor of complementary medicine, has said during a live TV interview that a civil war would break out in Turkey if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) does not win upcoming elections slated for June 24. Speaking on a live program on Akit TV on Wednesday night, Maranki said if the elections

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Pro-gov’t journalist says jailed Gulenists should be forced to commit suicide

Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over their links to the Gulen movement to commit suicide. “FETO supporters should be forced in an appropriate way to commit suicide. Because these vile people do not seem to behave sensibly unless they die,” he tweeted on March 26. Duygun’s

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