At least seven lawyers in the Kütahya province were detained as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown on Monday. The detainees are accused of having used ByLock, a smarthphone application that Turkish prosecutors claim to be the top communication tool among the Gülen movement followers. The government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15 […]
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Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has rejected a request from Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions (DİSK) Chairman Kani Beko to hold May Day celebrations in İstanbul’s Taksim Square, according to HaberTürk TV station on Monday. HaberTürk reported that Soylu who met with Beko on Monday turned down Beko’s request to hold the May Day celebrations
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Kazım Kızıl, a filmmaker and photojournalist known for his documentaries on human rights violations in Turkey, was put under pre-trial detention after being detained by police while covering protests in the aftermath of an April 16 referendum in İzmir, his lawyer said. Speaking with the Evrensel daily on Saturday, Dinçer Çalım, Kızıl’s lawyer, said the
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A total of 359 individuals have so far been ordered by Turkish courts to wear electronic ankle bracelets due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Started in 2013 with 15 arrestees, the project of outfitting arrestees with electronic ankle
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The Kastamonu-based student dormitory principal, identified as Z.E., has received a jail sentence of 6 years and 3 months for his ties to the Gulen movement, which the government blames for the July 15 coup attempt and labels as a terrorist organization. Stood trial on accusation of membership to “the armed terrorist organisation,” Z.E. was sentenced to
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At least 53 people were detained as part of an Istanbul-based investigation into the Gülen movement while 22 others were put in pre-trial arrest after 3 days under detention in the western province of Izmir, on Saturday. Turkish government accuses the movement of being behind the July 15 coup attempt while the latter denies any
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Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets at members of Furkan Foundation, a social-religious civic society group known for its critical stance against the government, while celebrating the Holy Birth of the Prophet Muhammad in Adana province. A 95-second video footage, viewed hundreds of times on Twitter, shows the moment a group of 200 Furkan members
