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Turkey’s pro-gov’t media now overjoyed with detention of Turkish businessman Kavala

Turkey’s leading pro-govenment dailies and journalists hang the flags out after prominent human rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala have recently been taken into custody by police “for getting involving in terrorism activities in Turkey.” In its front-page story on Friday Yeni Şafak launched a smear campaign against Kavala under the headline “Key Figure of Terror […]

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We will root out every single Gülenist from the Balkans: Erdoğan

People affiliated with the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen will be “rooted out” from the Balkans, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 11 in a speech in the Serbian town of Novi Pazar. “We will root out this treacherous gang called FETÖ from the Balkans, just as we did from our country,” Erdoğan said

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Pro-Kurdish journalists claim to have been tortured in prison: report

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Thirteen inmates including journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Serkan Erdoğan from the Dicle news agency (Dihaber) and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi daily, respectively, both of which were shut down by a government decree, were allegedly tortured on Oct. 2 by some 20-30 guards at Tarsus T-2 Prison in southern Turkey, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. Tugay Bek,

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[VIDEO] Police officers repeatedly beat Antalya woman with baton while she is pinned to floor

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A cellphone video that shows two police officer in Antalya repeatedly striking a woman with baton has prompted investigation, authorities announced on Wednesday. According to the 45-sec. footage which was recorded by a passersby and released on Twitter, two several officers and a woman exchange a series of escalating insults and challenges, and the brawl

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Erdoğan: No journalist in Turkish prisons but terrorists, thieves, spies

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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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Nationalist mob attacks funeral for Kurdish deputy’s mother, body unearthed

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A mob of about 50 people attacked a funeral ceremony held in Ankara for the mother of the imprisoned Deputy Co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Aysel Tugluk, several media outlets reported. Following the attack, the body of Hatun Tuğluk was removed from the grave and again taken to a morgue. According to the

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[VIDEO] Turkey’s energy minister: I would strangle Gülenists wherever I see them

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Addressing students being sent abroad with a scholarship, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak has said he would strangle supports of Gülen movement wherever he sees them, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Claiming that Gülen movement members, who Turkish government accuses of having mounted a botched coup

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[VIDEO] AKP deputy: Don’t greet Gülen followers even during Eid Al Adha, report them to police instead

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Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş warned party members in Kayseri on Thursday not to greet followers of the Gülen movement during the Eid al-Adha festival on Friday and advised members to report them to the police instead. Speaking during a party gathering in Kayseri

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Ruling AK Party deputy: Don’t greet Gülen followers even during Eid Al Adha, report them to police instead

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Radiology professor, extradited from Bahrain, gets tortured in Turkish jail: lawyer

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In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture and ill-treatment in notorious Turkish prison despite he was under the United Nations (UN) protection in Bahrain. Murat Acar, 46-year-old medical doctor who was working as a professor and consultant at

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