Turkey has seized a private jet and a luxury yacht owned by Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab as part of the government’s latest response to the businessman’s guilty plea in a US trial that implicated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s close circle. Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered seizure of a $58-million Challenger 300 jet belonging to […]
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An Ankara court ruled on Thursday to keep pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s co-chair (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş behind bars. During the first hearing of the case, opened on charges of leading a terrorist organization, Demirtaş failed to appear before the court as he refused to give his defense through the voice and video informatics system (SEGBIS).
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Turkish police on Tuesday detained at least 17 more people who allegedly sent documents to the US for the ongoing Reza Zarrab case in New York, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report police sources said three of the suspects had been previously detained, and the remainder were taken into custody on
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A Sanliurfa couple, both teachers who were removed from their government jobs over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, was given 6 years, 10 months and 22 days in jail. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Dec 4 that O.K. and his wife Y.K. was given each 6 years, 10 months plus 22 days jail
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Turkish police are waiting at Kahramanmaras Hayat Hospital to detain Ş.G., who just gave birth to her first baby, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a botched coup attempt last summer, an opposition deputy tweeted on Dec 5. Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from the main
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The principal of a secondary Imam Hatip school in Kutahya province, identified by his/her initials A.Ş., was detained for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Media reported Monday that police stopped A.Ş.’s car for exceeding the speed limit near Boluce neighborhood and fined him/her TL206 [$55]. During a brawl that erupted after he/she was fined,
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The main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) local branch in Ankara’s Etimesgut district has received a threatening note left at its door: You will pay for what you have done, you atheist traitors! The note was found attached at the door of the CHP’s Etimesgut district office and party members called the police to report
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Zafer Biryol, a former top scorer at Turkey’s national football league was re-detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen group, several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The footballer turned soccer coach was detained at Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, media said. Biryol was initially detained by police two weeks ago and then released after
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Emin Şakir, editor-in-chief of the solyayin.com archiving website, has been arrested by a Turkish court and sent to the Maltepe prison in İstanbul, according to Cumhuriyet daily. Şakir is reportedly accused of terror charges. Solyayin.com is a leftist archaving website which contained primary source documents regarding the socialist and leftist movements establlished throughout the history of the republic of
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Eleven Turkish folk dancers have reportedly sought asylum in Hungary after attending a dance contest in the country, Doğan News Agency reported on Dec. 5. A group of 16 dancers from the Ankara Kent Child and Youth Folk Dances Association reportedly left Turkey several days ago in order to participate in a folk dance contest in
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