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Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel arrested over stories on Erdoğan’s son-in-law

German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel, who was detained in Turkey on Feb. 14 as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, was arrested by a court on Monday, Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Bariş Yarkadaş reported on […]

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Police detain 76 civilians in İzmir-based post-coup operations

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 101 individuals including courthouse employees in İzmir, Manisa, Konya and Kütahya provinces, media reports said on Thursday. Seventy-six of these people have already been detained, according the reports. The İzmir-based operation targeted mostly courthouse employees in the four provinces who have alleged links to

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Turkey detains 25 teachers, jails other 6 teachers over coup charges

At least 25 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Sunday. Detention warrants were issued for 31 teachers in four Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Mersin and Adıyaman provinces while police have yet to locate the remaining 6. Meanwhile, 6 teachers were arrested as part

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97 detained near Georgian border as thousands try to flee Turkey’s witch hunt

At least 97 people have been detained over the past 4 months while they were attempting to escape from Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt to Georgia, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Thousands of people have fled Turkey due to a massive witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government against the country’s dissidents and

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4-year jail term sought for AKUT co-founder over insult to Erdoğan

Co-founder and former chairman of Turkey’s prominent Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) Nasuh Mahruki is facing a jail term of one to four years on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor against Mahruki accuses Mahruki of committing the alleged insult during a TV program last October. The

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Turkish actors denied speech at school over fears of no propaganda ahead of referendum

Turkish actors Kayhan Yıldızoğlu and Tuba Ünsal was denied permission to make a drama-related speech at a local high school in Bartın province as the city’s national education director feared they would make propaganda on behalf of the “No” front before the presidential referendum. “We performed before a fantastic audience in Bartın. I would like

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Making room for post-coup detainees, Turkey transfers convicts sentenced to 10 years to open prisons

Turkey has revised its regulation to transfers the convicts with ‘lighter’ jail sentences to open prisons in order to make room for post-coup detainees. According to the new regulation, published in the Official Gazette on. 23, prisoners sentenced up to 10 years in jail would be reassigned from closed prisons to more comfortable open prisons.

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Academic commits suicide after being dismissed in latest gov’t purge

Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University in the southern Turkish province of Adana, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home after he was fired from his job at the university. Traş was one of the signatories of a peace declaration which in early 2016 called on the government to halt operations

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29 businessmen, doctors detained in Denizli over alleged coup involvement

A total of twenty-nine businessmen and doctors were detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, Milliyet daily reported on Saturday. Detention warrants were issued for 32 Denizli individuals early on Friday. Hours later, police teams carried out simultaneous operations in the province and detained

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