Turkish police on Tuesday morning detained Fatih Gürsul, an advisor to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities claim is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. Gürsul was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which is […]
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With new state of emergency decrees issued on Tuesday, the Turkish government has shut down nine more local newspaper operating in various regions of Turkey, bringing the total number of media outlets closed in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15 to 195. According to the two new decrees, numbered 677 and 678,
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Thousands of people gathered in İstanbul on Sunday to protest the arrest of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in a “We will not surrender” rally. Although the rally mainly aimed to protest the arrest of the Kurdish deputies, banners criticizing other problems including emergency rule, decrees facilitating the purge of thousands
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