Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist human rights activist, has visited the grave of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 over alleged membership in the Gülen group. Saçılık, who lost his right arm in a […]
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A Turkish court on Feb. 16 handed down aggravated life sentences to three prominent journalists and three other defendants on charges of attempting to destroy the constitutional order even after Turkey’s highest court had ruled for the release of one of them. Ahmet Altan, a prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper,
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The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com. The BTK barred access to Ahval citing Law No. 5651, approved by the Turkish Parliament in February 2014 to regulate Internet broadcasting. Ahval, which was established by veteran Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar in November 2017, is known for
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An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan to an additional five years, 11 months in prison on terror-related charges. The ruling came one week after Altan was sentenced by another court to aggravated life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on Feb. 16, 2018 over
The state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has banned the broadcasting of a total of 208 songs, 142 Turkish and 66 Kurdish, on its 14 TV stations for reasons that were not made clear to the public. According to the Hürriyet daily, Some of these songs are performed by famous Turkish singers such as
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A Hatay man who was detained and later released pending trial on charges of harassing his ex-girlfriend, has reportedly been re-arrested after police detected statements insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his unwanted messages and phone calls to his victim. According to BBC Turkish, the man, Erdoğan Küpeli, was taken into custody by police a
A total of 17 people were taken into police custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Turkey’s Bursa province on Tuesday. Bursa Public Prosecutor’s Office issued warrants for 17 suspects who used to work at now-defunct schools and a kindergarten as teachers and executives, media said Tuesday. The detainees are accused
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Ahmet Keser, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV station, on Tuesday reacted to news stories that Turkey is killing civilians in the Afrin region of Syria, saying if they were to kill civilians they would start with people critical of the government living in the Cihangir, Nişantaşı and Etiler neighborhoods of Istanbul and even
The Turkish Parliament stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status on Tuesday. The move came after their convictions were upheld by appeal courts. Yıldırım was earlier sentenced to 14 months in jail for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a speech in which he referred to
Jailed air force colonel Adnan Çetin suffered a cerebral bleeding in Istanbul’s Silivri prison and was taken to hospital where he was later declared dead, according to his lawyer Kemal Ucar. In a series of tweets on Feb 16, Ucar wrote that his client, under arrest over coup charges, suffered brain hemorrhage and was subsequently
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