President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said during a public rally that if pro-Kurdish candidates “linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),” are elected in the upcoming municipal elections, he will dismiss them and appoint civil servants to run the Kurdish towns in southern Turkey. At a public rally in the central Anatolian town of Yozgat, […]
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A prosecutor in Turkey ordered the detention of 14 teachers after a scheduling conflict over a football field, the Diken news website reported on Thursday. The incident took place in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır where a group of teachers reserved the pitch for the 9 p.m.-10 p.m. time slot, while another group involving the
The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has handed down jail sentences of varying lengths to journalists from the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) on charges of “membership in a terrorist group.” According to the https://jailedjournos.com/2019/02/26/trt/, Ahmet Özdemir, Ali Hancı, Ahmet Çat, Beşir Elmas, Abdullah Yeldan, Enes Bora, Evren Kara, Koray Demirci, Selçuk Çelik, Şaban
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A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Oktay Acu was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to imprison its
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A group of activists from the UK raised 40,000 euros for needy Turkish nationals who have landed in Greece as refugees in the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup witch-hunt. Bold Medya online news outlet reported Tuesday that the group has collected 40,000 euros in online donations and handed over the sum to the
Former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of 1 year and 6 months for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A Diyarbakir court convicted Yüksekdağ for a statement she made while under custody for another, anti-terrorism investigation. When referring to Erdogan, Yuksekdag said: “…Erdogan whose
Teoman Kadioglu, a columnist with the Posta newspaper for 15 years, has been fired over a tweet he posted about decreasing sales of a sister publication. “Hurriyet newspaper has a actual daily circulation of 28,000 in Istanbul. It is 60,000 in Turkey as a whole. Are social media and digital revolution the only reason for
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Ömer Faruk Aksoy, a computer technician who died of skin cancer after he was dismissed from job, was found innocent 2.5 years later and “reinstated” to his job. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a rights activist and a lawmaker from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) tweeted Tuesday Aksoy was given a right to get back to work
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 10 years, 3 months and 22 days in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Akkus was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to
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A former Turkish teacher who was dismissed from his job over links to the Gulen movement was sentenced to 10.5 years in jail. The Adana-based former teacher, identified with his initials Z.K., was intercepted while trying to escape to Greece where many other suspected Gulenists have claimed asylum over the recent years., some time ago.
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