Kahraman Demirez, one of six Turkish nationals who were rendered to Turkey from Kosovo in an intelligence operation last year, has been sentenced to 8 years, 9 months in prison by an İstanbul court, the Anadolu News agency reported. While Demirez was acquitted of charges of international espionage, he was handed down the prison sentence […]
Asım Sencer Uslu entered prison when he was only 40-day-old. Yesterday, he turned 3 in a Konya prison, according to a Twitter account that monitors the human rights abuses in Turkish prisons. 3-year-old Asım and his mother have been staying in a prison in Konya’s Eregli district for almost thee years the mother’s alleged links
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Turkey’s Interior Ministry has removed from office three mayors from the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and one from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) over allegations of terrorism, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. In the southeastern province of Muş, Bulanık district mayor Adnan Topçu, Varto district mayor Ülkü Karaaslan and Erentepe mayor
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Enes Ünal, the son of jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal, was detained by Ankara police, the Bold news reported. The reason for detention remains unclear. Mustafa Ünal was the Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily. He was arrested after a military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, and was handed down a
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The total number of Turkish citizens who have faced investigation since July 2016 on terror and coup linked charges exceeded half a million by December 2019, according to an opposition party deputy chairman. A total of 562,581 people have been investigated over real and alleged links to the Gülen movement, Feti Yıldız, deputy chairman of
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İbrahim Burak Oğuz, the mayor of İzmir’s Urla district from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was sent to prison on Monday evening due to alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the Turkish media reported. Oğuz was reportedy summoned by a prosecutor on Monday to testify in an investigation into the movement and was subsequently arrested
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A Turkish court rejected a request on Wednesday to release a US Consulate employee jailed since 2017 on espionage charges despite his argument that no credible evidence had been submitted against him, AFP reported. The case of Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen and liaison for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at the US Consulate
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Alparslan Kuytul, president of the Furkan Foundation and leader of a religious group critical of the Turkish government, was released pending trial on Thursday after spending 22 months in pre-trial detention Kuytul is still facing a 20-year prison sentence on terrorism charges. In January, he was released by another court only to be re-arrested several
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Bosnian police reportedly detained a Turkish citizen over his alleged membership in the Gülen movement, the Bold Medya news website reported. Fatih Keskin, a Turkish educator and the principal of Una-Sana College, an institute operating within the Gülen-affiliated Richmond Park Schools Group, was detained by the police in Bihać city, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency
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Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said at a gendarmerie command meeting on Wednesday that at least 500 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants are still in Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. “We will make all preparations and use all our capabilities to eliminate these 500 terrorists in 2020,” Soylu said. In August, he claimed
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