A Kayseri-based businessman, identified as I.C., was detained near the Turkey-Greece border in Edirne, reportedly on his way to escape the government’s post-coup crackdown. I.C. was rounded up in Edirne’s Kesan district, 100 meters away from the border, with a fake ID found on him, on March 22. An arrest warrant was issued for I.C. […]
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Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over their links to the Gulen movement to commit suicide. “FETO supporters should be forced in an appropriate way to commit suicide. Because these vile people do not seem to behave sensibly unless they die,” he tweeted on March 26. Duygun’s
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At least 7 student have been detained by police at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University for participating in protests agains Turkey’s Afrin operation, the Dİken news portal reported. Detentions came only a day after Turkish President Recep Erdogan said on Saturday that the government will “clean communist and terrorist students” out of Turkish universities. According to the report
At least 16 people affiliated with the Erzincan-based Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Association (PSAKD), have been put in pre-trial detention for “providing support to a terrorist organization,” the Birgün daily reported. According to the report, among the arrestees are Erol Yeter, deputy chair of the PSAKD, and Akın Demir, local director of the PSKAD in Erzincan.
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An Ankara prosecutor is seeking a sentence of up to 54 months in prison for one of the co-founders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Abdüllatif Şener, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his Twitter messages. According to the Hürriyet daily, One of Erdoğan’s lawyers, Ahmet Özel, filed a complaint against
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The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) has completely block access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, by March 16, 2018, the Diken news portal reported. Among the prohibited networds are Tor Project, VPN Master, Hotspot Shield VPN, Psiphon, Zenmate VPN, TunnelBear, Zero VPN, VyprVPN, Private Internet Access VPN, Espress VPN, IPVanish VPN. In a related development,
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About 1,800 military members have been suspended even though they showed remorse over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, according to the Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli. “Some 1,800 people who give their statements to prosecutors as ‘confessors’ have been suspended. If they really want to benefit from the remorse law, they should do what
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A Van court on Friday sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Lezgin Botan to 18 years in prison over terrorism charges,” the Evrensel daily reported. According to a report by the report, the Van 2nd High Criminal Court sentenced the Kurdish deputy for “damaging the integrity of the state,” “disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist
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Turkish singer and actress Zuhal Olcay has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for “insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” several media outlets reported. According to Hurriyet Daily News, Olcay was charged of insulting the president during a performance in 2016 by “revising lyrics to the song ‘Boş Vermişim Dünyayı’ (I Let Go of
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to promptly end an ongoing state of emergency, torture and passport cancellation as well as a ban imposed on dismissed public servants from rejoining the civil service. In a 28-page report issued on Tuesday the OHCHR called on
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