Turkish journalist Derya Okatan, under arrest since Dec. 25, went on hunger strike in protest of her imprisonment. Accused of being a member of a terrorist group, Okatan was detained along with 5 other journalists on Dec. 25 and arrested afterwards. Okatan was the news coordinator of Özgür Radyo until it was closed by the […]
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K.D., who works for a private company at İstanbul Atatürk Airport, was arrested for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media on Saturday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report, K.D., who works as security guard, was arrested by the court after a police interrogation. The Ministry of Interior Affairs
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Three people from the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party’s (CHP) youth branch in Sakarya’s Serdivan district were battered by an angry mob who chanted “La Ilaha Illallah,” over a banner they hanged inside a shopping mall. Banners reportedly read: “Turkey is secular and will remain secular,” and “We are soldiers of Mustafa Kemal.” Mustafa Kemal
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The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) will be able cancel licenses of Turkish media outlets as part of new decrees issued on Friday night if the media outlets found disobeying gag orders. According to the new decrees numbered 679, 680 and 681, RTÜK is authorized to stop publication or broadcasting of media outlets for
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Turkey’s latest post-coup government decree implicated, among others, 41 academics who signed a long-debated declaration that criticized Turkish military action in the largely Kurdish southeast. Published in early this year, the declaration accuses the government of carrying out heavy-handed operations in Turkey’s southeast region where the outlawed PKK militants and the military has been in
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A total of 649 academics were dismissed in three government decrees, issued on Jan.6, 2016, bringing the total number of academics who lost their jobs after a failed coup on July 15 to 6,986. Professors, associate professors and lecturers from nearly all universities in Turkey were targeted in the government’s post-coup crackdown. Academics were accused
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Three post-coup government decrees, issued on Jan. 6, 2017, enabled authorities to strip Turkish nationals living abroad of their citizenship if they do not come back in three months after they were summoned as part of an investigation or prosecution. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan previously stated that the government would do its part to revoke
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83 associations and foundations in 20 provinces were closed down by the government decree as prosecutors claimed that they had been linked to terrorist organizations or groups deemed to be against ‘national interests,” on Friday. Eight sport clubs including two football clubs from the Turkey’s mostly Kurdish province of Şırnak — Şırnak Belediyesi Spor Kulübü
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Prominent Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal, under arrest since July 30, was infected with herpes zoster, yet he is not allowed to get medicine, according to his son. Former Ankara representative of now-defunct Zaman newspaper got infected with shingles late last month and asked for prison management to see a doctor, his son tweeted on Wednesday.
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Bahadır Çakır, a police officer with 16 years of experience before he was dismissed from job under Turkey’s post-coup purge, got shot but hopefully not killed during a brutal attack in Istanbul’s Reina, the nightclub where he has started working for daily wage very recently. According to Milliyet daily, Çakır was dismissed from his job
