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Dismissed pro-Kurdish mayor, 1-year-old son arrested as mother battered during operation

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Lice Municipality’s former co-mayorRezan Zuğurli was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurli was battered by police officers during the operation on Thursday. Zuğurli, the co-mayor of the Diyarbakir’s Lice Municipality until she was removed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Kurdish regions on Feb 10, was earlier sentenced […]

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Client fearfully waiting his turn to be tortured at Ankara police station: lawyer

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An Ankara lawyer who wants to remain anonymous has said his/her client, detained over his links to the Gülen movement, was waiting his turn in fears to be tortured at a detention facility in Turkey’s capital. In his/her letter to the Human Rights Association (İHD), the lawyer said people detained as part of an investigation

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Turkish prisoner says tied to chair, pushed into sea while under custody

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A Bartin man, identified with his initials D.G., was bound to a chair and pushed into sea on multiple times as police officers tortured him while under custody, according to Aktifhaber online news portal. Detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in the northern province of Bartin in October 2016, D.G. was

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Interior ministry publishes book to declare hunger-striking educators as ‘terrorists’

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Turkey’s Interior Ministry has published a 54-page-long booklet on the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), in which it described the jailed educators who have been on hunger strike in protest of the government’s post-coup dismissals. “The endless plot by the terrorist organization: The Truth about Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca,” the book’s title read. Gülmen

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Pro-Erdogan gang leader says will hang all Gülenists

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Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said they will hang all people linked to the Gülen movement from flagpoles and trees, the Diken news website reported on Sunday. “They should pray for our president, who they call a dictator. May God save him [Erdoğan], if his

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Erdogan proposes Guantanamo suits for those detained over coup charges

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said people detained over coup charges should wear a single outfit, like in Guantanamo. “When they appear in court, let’s make them appear in one-type uniform like in Guantanamo,” Erdogan said during an Istanbul rally to mark the first anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt on Saturday. “I also

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Pro-gov’t news portal proposes ways to execute Gülen followers

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Following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s promise “to cut off traitors’ heads,” the pro-government media called for an Ottoman-like solution for the execution of people linked to the Gülen movement, which Erdoğan accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. “This is an example of execution in the days where decisions were

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Obscenity overtakes simple insults in discrimination against Turkey’s Gülenists

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Demonizing remarks on Turkey’s Gulen group have reached a new level with government supporters resorting to obscenity in hate speech against its supporters. Turkish government accused the Gulen movement for masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while the latter denies the allegation. With the long-expected trials of military officers allegedly involved in the failed

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Prison guards beat children during visit to imprisoned mother

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Two out of three children of Raziye Soner, a pro-Kurdish Republican Peoples’ Party (HDP) member who was arrested over terror charges on Dec 24, 2016, were beaten by police during a visit to their imprisoned mother. Soner reportedly attempted to greet the visitors of other inmates during a visit hour at Tarsus Women’s Prison, last

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Forced disappearances become daily occurrence in Turkey as another post-coup victim abducted in daylight

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Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, was abducted, marking second forced disappearance in a week. “MY SON WAS ABDUCTED! I have failed to get a satisfactory answer from the institutions I talked the issue with. I want to make my voice heard and address

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