“Police officer banged my client’s head on the floor, causing marks and bruises on his head. When I complaint about ill-treatment, the police said it would be very easy for him to have me arrested for being a member of the Gülen movement as well,” a lawyer told Human Rights Watch. In a 43-page report, […]
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Aladdin Demir, the mukhtar (head) of the Çukur neighborhood in Gaziantep, hung two banners on the side of his office stating that sympathizers of the Gülen movement are not allowed in the area and that people can call him to report any transgressor via a 7/24 hotline. The discriminatory practices backed by Turkey’s top state
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The chairman of Ottoman Hearths 1453, Emin Canpolat, has called on all supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take up arms in the event of a second coup attempt in Turkey. Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt on July 15 that claimed the lives of more
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Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı implied in a letter to the Justice Ministry that his mafia network could kill Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in Pennsylvania and his senior followers elsewhere in the world. Çakıcı’s letter came weeks after Turkey’s controversial request that the US extradite Gülen. “Dear Justice Minister, you and the president continually
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Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy chairman Yasin Aktay said that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and FETO, an abbreviation coined by the government circles to refer to the sympathizers of Gülen Movement within state institutions, are crusader organizations that are fed by the same people and are serving to the same purpose.
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The government has reportedly taken another step to segregate Gülen movement from society with the Finance Minister Naci Ağbal ordering tax offices to exclude people linked to the Turkey’s new scapegoat from the recently-announced debt restructuring program. Turkish government accuses the movement of not only masterminding the July 15 coup attempt but also of many
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Günay Dağ, a lawyer representing 17-year-old H.İ. in İstanbul’s Maltepe youth prison, has been battered by custody guards after he asked questions about the authenticity of allegations of torture on his client. Dağ has stopped by the Maltepe youth prison in order to meet with H.İ. who went on a hunger strike after he was
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In yet another of such remarks, Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmuş targeted Gülen movement which was accused by Turkey’s government and President Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the failed coup attempt on July 15, saying it is not different than Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Speaking at the 9th meeting of
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In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for anything wrong in Turkey, the chairman of Soma Holding has reiterated earlier accusations, demanding an investigation into the movement’s role in the country’s deadliest mining disaster, which killed 301 people in 2014. Soma Holding Chairman Can Gürkan said during a hearing on Wednesday that the
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told fellow deputies from Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a meetin on Friday that they will be relentless in rooting out FETO, a derogatory term coined by AKP government to refer to Gülen movement symphatizers, from wherever they are, a daily reported. “We have to root FETO members out
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