Up to 100 Dutch nationals of Turkish descent are being barred from leaving Turkey, according to Dutch public broadcaster NOS. Citing sources familiar with the situation NOS said on Thursday that those implicated were on holiday or in a trip to see their families in Turkey. The most common characteristics of the group is that […]
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Actor and columnist at Sol newspaper, Orhan Aydin was given suspended prison sentence of 11 months and 20 days for a cartoon he shared on social media. An Istanbul court handed down the verdict on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyin Erdogan on Thursday. Aydin’s sharing of a drawing by cartoonist Carlos Latuff on Erdogan’s
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A court in Turkey’s Mersin province has banned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) official referendum campaign song “Bejin Na‘’ (Say No) nationwide for “inciting hatred and hostility among people”. Diken news portal reported on Tuesday that according to a ruling by the Mersin 2nd Penal Court of Peace, HDP’s referendum song violated the article 216 of
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Access to the opposition news portals, sendika.org, dihaber, ANF Türkçe and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi was blocked in Turkey by the government on Tuesday. The websites in question used to report mostly on the issues related to Kurdish minority and on human rights violations in Turkey. Sendika.org said the government has banned their website for 19 times since July
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Nuri Polat, a lawyer representing Meral Akşener, a former deputy and candidate for leadership of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has been arrested by a Turkish court over alleged links to the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The movement denies the
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İstanbul prosecutors have finally prepared an indictment against Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November in 2017 on charges of supporting several terrorist organizations. There are 19 suspects mentioned in the indictment including arrested Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives as well as former Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who left Turkey before a
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Seven teachers were detained while having a picnic at an İstanbul park on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. According to the Hürriyet daily, the teachers were taken into police custody and then sent to an İstanbul jail by a court
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An Ankara prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 41 employees of Turkey’s Court of Accounts due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The detention warrants were issued by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for 41 people across seven provinces. Some of the individuals for whom detention warrants have been issued were already
Turkey’s spying imams are proved to have been active also in Romania as an exclusive report has documented case-by-case profiling activities against perceived enemies of the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “A memo from Turkey’s Counsellor for Religious Affairs in Bucharest, Osman Kilic, was sent to his boss at the Presidency of Religious Affairs (known as Diyanet)
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An Ankara court has ruled to block access to Turkeypurge.com and @TurkeyPurge twitter account for the third time in 6 months without issuing prior notification, citing “legal consideration” of a law regarding crimes committed through social media. According to a notification sent by Twitter to Turkey Purge’s official e-mail address on March 27, after technical analysis and legal consideration based
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