A total of 3,206 Turkish nationals have applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of 2017, data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) have showed. According to the report by BAMF, there has been an increase in the number of Turkish nationals who applied for asylum in Germany […]
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Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) Deputy Caglar Demirel was given 7.5 years of prison sentence while another HDP deputy, Abdullah Zeydan was sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in jail, on Friday. Both are accused of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). Turkey has stepped up its crackdown on Kurdish politicians in
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Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has said with the establishment of a state of emergency (OHAL) commission, 12,600 cases currently awaiting review at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been dropped by the court, the t24 news website reported on Friday. The OHAL commission, which is expected to start work on July 17, will
A total of 7,563 people were dismissed with a new post-coup emergency decree, released only a day before the first anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. The government decree, numbered 692, dismissed 7,563 people including 302 academics, from their jobs. Turkey survived a military takeover attempt on July 15, last year and the
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Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been released under house arrest, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Police teams on Monday detained 42 people at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi and Medeniyet universities over alleged links to the Gülen movement. According
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Five protesters who are demanding reinstatement to their jobs by protesting on a street in Ankara have been sentenced to house arrest, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Esra Özakça, Acun Karadağ, Nazife Onay, Nazan Bozkurt and Erdoğan Canpolat, who wanted to show their support for dismissed educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça and
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Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam, former rector of Batman University and head of an excavation team in Hasankeyf’s historic area, was put in pre-trial arrest as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Wednesday. Detained while inspecting the excavation work at the historic site on Saturday, Ulucam spent 4 days under custody before a
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Ali Avcı, the director of the soon-to-be-released “coup movie”, was detained over links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Avcı’s detention came only hours after a trailer for his new movie, titled “Uyanış” or “the Awakening” in English, was released on social media, drawing backlash
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Barış Yurtseven, the pilot of the plane that brought Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Dalaman to İstanbul on the night of a failed military coup attempt last July, was fired from Turkish Airlines (THY) in February over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding the putsch. the Doğan news
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Under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, Prof. Dr. Ugur Camci said his imprisonment would be a loss for universal science, media reported on Tuesday. Camci’s request for acquittal was denied by the court overseeing his case. A mathematical physics professor at Antalya’s Akdeniz University until he was dismissed
