Kani Önen, a police officer who was dismissed by a decree issued by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on September 20 at a mining site in Gebze district, journalist Sevinç Özarslan reported. According to the report, he was acquitted of all charges by a Turkish […]
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A reputed mob boss said in an interview on July 22 that he was asked by the Turkish government to murder Andrew Brunson, an American Pastor who spent some two years in a Turkey prison over alleged terrorism and espionage-related charges “AK Party wanted to kill him [Brunson] and blame it on FETO. […] They
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Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of one of the military cadets who were imprisoned in the aftermath of a failed military coup in July 2016, was sent to prison early on Friday. According to Çetinkaya’s daughter, Rüveyda, she was jailed for “praising a crime and those who committed it.” Melek Çetinkaya is the mother of Furkan
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Turkish parliament to pass laws that ban social media platforms, including Twitter and Netflix, due to the “recent increase of immoral acts” on these platforms. The President’s address came a day after at least 19 social media users posted tweets insulting Erdogan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, his daughter
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9 international human rights groups have called on governments aroud the world, NGOs and the UN to push the Turkish government to release political prisoners and “condemn its use of the pandemic to further target human rights defenders.” The right groups — Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Article 19, English PEN, Freedom House, Human
Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote a letter last week calling on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release journalists, civil society activists, and members of the political opposition “who do not appear to have committed any criminal acts.” Rep. Engel’s letter came in
Police teams armed with machine guns raided a house in Adana belonging to a family accused of “giving financial support” to the purge-victims who were either jailed or fired from their jobs over Gülen links. Among the detainees is a woman with a six-month old baby (see the pictures below), and an 75-year-old man. According
Three lawmakers, Leyla Güven, Musa Farisoğulları from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Enis Berberoğlu from the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP), were stripped of their lawmaker status on Thursday, Reuters reported. Berberoğlu was convicted for “disclosing government secrets” while Güven and Farisoğulları are were convicted of “being a member of a terrorist organization.” “This disregards
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An inmate has died from an apparent complication related to COVID-19 at Silivri Prison in istanbul, according to a statement by the İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to the same statement, the number of coronavirus cases in the facility has reached 82. The inmate was hospitalized on May 7 and succumbed to the
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Esra Yurt, a Turkish woman who was detained as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gulen group, said in an interview that she had her feet burned with acid in police custody at the notorious Ankara Anti-Terror Branch (TEM). Speaking to Turkish journalist Sevinç Özarslan in an exclusive interview on Friday, Yurt said she was
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