Journalist Nevşin Mengü, known for her critical stance towards the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced on Thursday that she was parting ways with CNN Türk, where she had once served as an evening news anchor. Mengü tweeted: “We part ways with love This happens sometimes. I hope […]
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The Beyoğlu district governor’s office in İstanbul banned a journalism awards ceremony named after Kurdish dissident writer and activist Musa Anter and planned to be held at a hotel in İstanbul on Thursday evening due to an ongoing state of emergency in Turkey. According to the Bianet website, the local governor’s office send a letter
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The Turkish Education Ministry has issued a decision to immediately recall seventh grade social studies textbooks due to a page on press censorship by the government, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, the ministry distributed thousands of books to seventh grade students. The book had a chapter on press freedom that
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A total of nine teachers who used to work for a private college, linked to the Gulen movement, were detained on Tuesday. The suspects, earlier removed from their jobs under emergency rule, were rounded up as part of a post-coup probe in Mugla’s resort district of Bodrum. Once teachers at the movement-linked Merter Anatolian High
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A total of 31 people, including shopkeepers, housewives have been detained by police teams in Isparta province over alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. According to the Hürriyet daily, police teams early on Tuesday morning conducted simultaneous raids in several Isparta districts including Yenişarbademli, Yalvaç, Uluborlu, Senirkent, Keçiborlu, Gelendost and Eğirdir.
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A total of 17 suspects including journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan appeared before the court on Tuesday for the second hearing of the trial, Cumhuriyet daily reported. The suspects, who are being held as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed
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An İstanbul court on Tuesday ruled for a continuation of the pretrial detention of 21 journalists, former employees of the Zaman newspaper, which was shut down by the government last year. According to the decision of the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court during a hearing at the Silivri Prison compound, the journalists’ request to be
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A total of 774 people were detained across Turkey as part of investigations into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, Interior Ministry said Sept 774 were detained over their alleged links to the movement between Sept 11-18. Meanwhile, law
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Kemal Özer, a reporter and nature photographer for Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pretrial detention on terror charges on Friday. Detained in Tunceli province as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sept 4, Özer was arrested on accusations of membership to a terrorist organization after spending 11 days
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Brig. Gen. Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş, accused of leading the group that allegedly tried to capture President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during last year’s abortive coup, has said his daughter was sexually abused during a prison visit to the jailed commander. During a coup trial on Sept 9, Sönmezateş said his daughter was sexually abused while being searched by
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