A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 109 people were arrested, while 254 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at […]
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An Edirne judge ruled on arrest of four people who attended local protests against detainment of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and Hidayet Karaca in 2014, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Tuesday. A total of 7 people were detained in Edirne province for their attendance in local protests held in late 2014
With a new decree issued by the Ministry of Interior Affairs on Wednesday, the chiefs of police of 61 provinces across Turkey have changed as police chiefs in 34 provinces have been recalled to Ankara. The reshuffling affects major cities including İzmir, Diyarbakır, Adana and Antalya. The controversial police force chief of intelligence Engin Dinç,
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As part of a relentless purge carried out by the government following a failed coup on July 15, police have detained 30 academics and students at İzmir’s leading Dokuz Eylül University. Detention warrants were reportedly issued for a total of 55 faculty members and students, with a police raid carried out in 12 districts around
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As part of an ongoing debate in Turkey over concerns about a spike in gun ownership, a columnist for the political Islamist Yeni Akit daily addressed those worries, saying that the people know who to shoot in the event of a threat. Abdullah Şanlıdağ wrote a response to criticism of a tendency called “AK armament,”
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A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 77 people were arrested, while 135 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at
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Prison guards have been beating Salih Elitaş, a distributor for the Azadiya Welat newspaper, which has been targeted by the government, along with other people being held under arrest at Manisa Prison, his father told the Evrensel daily. Salih Elitaş has been under arrest pending trial since March. His father, Ramazan Elitaş, said his son
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In a written statement released both in Turkish and English, UK-based academic Özcan Keleş denied recent allegations about him that appeared in Turkey’s mostly pro-government media outlets, saying that only his name, his father’s name, his hometown and the fact that Aksaray is a city in Turkey were accurate in the articles. “Everything else is
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Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) of staging its own coup by arresting writers, journalists and military officers in a crackdown launched after a failed coup attempt on July 15. Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15, which claimed
The infamous police officer who sprayed tear gas directly into the face of a female protestor, for which he received a suspended 20-month jail sentence, has joined the ranks of others who pin blame for any wrongdoing on Turkey’s new scapegoat, the Gülen movement. Widely shared on social media, the image of the “woman in
