A 47-year-old public prosecutor who was recently put behind bars in the western province of Bursa as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement was found hanging in the prison bathroom on Friday morning. The body of the prosecutor, identified as Seyfettin Yiğit, was taken to the Bursa Council of Forensic Medicine for […]
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Police detained 12 more academics from Erzincan University over their alleged links to the Gülen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt on July 15. Police carried out operations in five provinces in early Friday and took 12 faculty members into custody. The detainees have been added to already high number of
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An İzmir court imposed a ban of publication on the testimonies of suspects and secret witnesses within an İzmir-based investigation into the Gülen Movement. The movement stands accused of orchestrating the July 15 coup attempt despite its successive statements to deny any involvement. Turkey has already detained more than 40,000 people and arrested some 24,000
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With only days to go until new school year kicks off, education unions call on authorities to consider a postponement in the schooling season due to a lack of teachers emerged amid the government purge of civil servants following the coup attempt. Nearly 1 million students are expected to be affected from the purge as
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Families of Air Force Academy students who were detained over their alleged involvement in the July 15 coup attempt, gathered in protest in front of Ankara’s Sincan prison on Wednesday or the third day of holy Eid-al-Alha. Releasing dozens of balloons into the air, relatives of the detainees protested the massive purge launched following the
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Found themselves unemployed after a government decree shut down more than a dozen universities across the country, 2,500 academics now struggle to find job elsewhere over their alleged ties to the Gülen Movement. The movement stands accused of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt which killed over 240 people and wounded others. While the government
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Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said the Maarif Foundation, established by the government to deal with Turkish schools abroad, is planning to take over 65 schools that are linked to the Gülen movement in 15 countries. Speaking to a crowd in the central province of Sivas while celebrating Eid al-Adha with colleagues, Minister Yılmaz talked
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Veysel Ok and Ergin Cinmen, lawyers for Mehmet and Ahmet Altan, two prominent journalists detained four days ago, yesterday made a joint statement saying that because of the Eid holiday they could not find the responsible prosecutor or a court in which to appeal their clients’ detention. They called the charges against the brothers –
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Turkey’s renowned critical columnists, brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, still have no access to their lawyer even after spending two days in detention, and their detention warrant has not yet been presented. Speaking to news portal T24, the Altan brothers’ lawyer, Veysel Ok, said the columnists, accused of ¨revealing¨ the coup attempt of July
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A Turkish court ruled for the arrest of nine academics in Konya on Monday due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of being behind a coup attempt on July 15. According to a state-run Anadolu news agency report, 14 academics were released on probation by the same court, while 23
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