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Turkey suspends 12 more academics for signing peace declaration

Twelve academics working at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir province have been suspended for signing a peace declaration in 2016, according to the Evrensel daily. The deaiy reported on Wednesday that medical faculty staff Cem Terzi, İzge Günal, Halil Resmi and Halis Ulaş; economics faculty staff Ayşen Uysal, Nuri Erkin Başer, Yeşim Edis Şahin, Seçkin Aydın, […]

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Turkish gov’t seizes 1,600-year-old Syriac churches, properties

Turkish authorities have transferred the ownership of churches, houses of worship and cemeteries that have belonged to the Syriac community for over 1,600 years to Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) as part of a process of liquidation in Mardin province. According to a story in the Agos daily on Friday, after Mardin became a

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Erdoğan: Wherever you find a Gülenist, you will report them to us!

Having purged more than 150,000 people from state jobs and jailed over 50,000 due to alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday called on people to inform on activities of Gülenists, saying that if they fail to do so, they will be held responsible. “Wherever you know of or

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Police stifle İstanbul Gay Pride rally, detain AP reporter

Turkish police have thwarted an attempt by LGBT activists to hold a pride march in İstanbul’s famed Taksim square to mark one of the largest organized gay festivals in Turkey. According to Turkish media outlets and several pro-LGBT twitter accounts, police fired plastic bullets at a group of around 40 activists in the country’s largest

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Arrest warrants issued for another 56 lawyers over terror charges

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 56 lawyers as part of an investigation targeting people linked to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.   The lawyers are accused of

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Another dismissed police chief detained while escaping to Greece

M.G., a former police chief in Van province who was dismissed as part of post-coup crackdown on Gülen movement, was detained near Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne. M.G. was rounded up by gendarmerie in Abdürrahim village in Edirne’s Enez district, on Friday. While an arrest warrant had been already issued for M.G. before his attempt

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Gov’t puts up for sale properties of 8 media outlets seized from critics

Properties belonging to eight of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) on June 22. In a statement on Thursday, TMSF listed properties belonging to Can Erzincan, Barış and Ört TV stations, and Nazar, Yerel Bakış, Turgutlu Havadis,

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