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Turkey sends 3 more Kurdish mayors to prison on terror charges: report

A Turkish court has arrested three district mayors in the country’s Southeast who were previously removed from office by the Interior Ministry, the Turkish media reported. Savur district Co-mayor Gülistan Öncü, Mazıdağı district Co-mayor Nalan Özaydın and Derik district Co-mayor Mülkiye Esmez, all in Mardin province, who were detained following police raids on Nov.15, were […]

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8-year-old cancer patient denied passport due to father’s alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group

Ahmet Ataç, an eight-year-old kid with stage four bone cancer, has reportedly been denied a passport by Turkish authorities due to the his father’s ongoing imprisonment over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group. The group is accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish deputy

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Video shows İstanbul police assault, detain high school students protesting suspicious death of an 11-year-old

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against a group of high school students protesting the suspicious death of a 11-year-old Turkish girl, Rabia Naz Vatan, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. The victims were reported to be the members of a revolutionary group established by a group of high school sudents

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Gülenist family at risk of deportation from Germany to Turkey

A Turkish family who reportedly has links to Turkey’s Gülen group is at risk of deportation to Turkey by the German authorities, despite evidence that they could face serious harm in the country. According to the Bold news portal, the Gün family has recently had their asylum application rejected by Germany. Merseburg police reportedly raided

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Ankara man abducted in February “found” at a police station in Ankara: wife

Mustafa Yılmaz, a Turkish man who was allegedly abducted by unidentified people in April, was “found” at a police station in Karapürçek, a town near the Sakarya province, his wife tweeted on Tuesday. According to the, Mr. Yılmaz was transfered to the Ankara Police Department’s Bureau of Organized Crimes after he was found and currently

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Cambodian police keep Mexican-Turkish national in custody over Gülen links: report

Cambodian police have detained the Turkish-Mexican former director of a school run by the movement of US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, his wife said on Friday, according to Reuters. Osman Karaca, former director of Zaman International School, was arrested by eight policemen while he was at a

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Turkey jails pro-Kurdish co-mayors on terror charges: report

Semire Nergiz and Ferhat Kut, co-mayors of a Kurdish-majority town Nusaybin, have been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court on terror accusations, the Etha reported.   Turkey has launched a crackdown against dissent in its Kurdish-majority areas following its assault against Kurdish-controlled parts of neighboring Syria. Protests have been broken up with tear gas,

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Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh files fraudulent request to extradite Mexican citizen of Turkish origin on coup charges: report by @nordicmonitor ||

The Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh attempted to deceive Cambodian authorities to extradite Osman Karaca, a Mexican citizen of Turkish origin, due to his alleged ties to the Gülen group, the Nordic Monitor news website reported. The Turkish government accuses the Gülen group of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt. The latter denies any involvement. To

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Police block Kurdish protesters inside HDP building to prevent press release

Turkish police on Monday blocked tens of Kurdish protesters inside the Diyarbakır headquarter of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in order to prevent a press release regarding the Operation Peace Spring, a military operation launched by Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in the east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. HDP’nin Diyarbakır’da Barış Pınarı

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Former prosecutor, TV pundit detained hours after release: report

Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit who was released pending trial on Friday, was detained again on early on Saturday morning, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Avcı was initially detained on Sept. 18, 2015 as part of an investigation into a group of police officers and journalists who were accused of

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