CNN Türk presenter Nevşin Mengü was taken off the air by station management on Monday after remarks she made about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s meeting with US President Donald Trump last week. Mengü was the target of criticism in the pro-government media after she said, “He [Erdoğan] went in and he went out, 23 minutes […]
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Jailed Cumhuriyet reporter Ahmet Sik is being denied access to his own book he intends to refer to in his defense before the court in charge. The book in question, titled, ‘Paralel Yuruduk Biz Bu Yollarda’ [We walked Parallel on this Road] examines the alleged power struggle and an ultimate fallout between the government and what the
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560 children, aged between 0 to 6, are being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers, according to Justice Ministry. In a statement to main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputy Gamze Ilgezdi’s question, the ministry said the number of children staying along with their mothers behind bars has hit 560 according to April
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The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 48 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 361
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Eleven people were taken into custody while they were allegedly on their way to escape Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to a Greek island on Saturday. The suspects were detained on the shores of Dalaman in Mugla province over their alleged links to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the Jul 15, 2016. Detainees
Durmuş Ali Çetin, a police officer who was earlier dismissed from his job with a post-coup emergency degree has been missing for the past three days with his family concerned about the security of his life. According to Kronos online news portal on Saturday, his family has not heard from Cetin since he left home Wednesday morning.
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Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Basri Bağcı has informed Parliament that Turkish prisons are currently 9 percent over capacity, saying that some inmates have to sleep in shifts, Gerçek Gündem reported on Friday. “There are currently 221,607 inmates in prisons. Prison capacity is 203,000, making them 9 percent over capacity,” said Bağcı during a presentation to
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In a show of intimidation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Ali Arıkan, deputy governor of the southeastern province of Şırnak, posed for the camera on Friday in a house burnt down during clashes between the Turkish Armed Forces and PKK militants, resulting in widespread reaction from social media users across the country. Arıkan posted
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The Sözcü daily on Saturday published a totally blank edition to protest detention warrants issued the previous day for its owner and three of its employees. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for owner Burak Akbay and reporter Gökmen Ulu as well as executives Melda Olgun and Yonca Kaleli over alleged links
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Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining the ranks of seven others who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the aftermath of a July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Their families, both living in Ankara, separately announced on social media
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