Muhammet Safi, the director of Turkey’s Presidential Archives, has called for the arming of every household for the defense of Turkey, the Diken news website reported on Friday. “It’s necessary to launch a project to arm each household with an automatic rifle and 1,000 bullets,” said Safi in a Twitter message, quoting a tweet of […]
Turkey’s Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said nearly 33,000 teachers have been dismissed from their jobs as a result of anti-coup investigations so far. “Turkey has never experienced such a period. Due to and as a result of this coup, nearly 33,000 teachers were discharged. We also completed disciplinary proceeding for some [another] 14,000 teachers who
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Hatice Avan, who gave birth to a baby in the western Turkish province of Denizli on Thursday, was detained on Friday, despite her doctor’s objection, over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Avan, who used to work at
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An İstanbul court on Friday ruled for a continuation of the pretrial detention of media members including Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak, who are being held as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup on July 15, Cumhuriyet reported. The İstanbul 26th High
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At least 21 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement followers in Zonguldak, on Wednesday. Police carried out operations to detain the suspects in Kozlu, Kilimli and Ereğli districts. Detainees included 10 females, among them several housewives and university students. The prosecutor overseeing the investigation accuses the suspects of having used ByLock,
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Former deputy of the ruling AK Party Sukru Onder has been detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. Police detained Onder in Yalova, on Thursday. Şahin served as AK Party deputy between 2002 and 2007. The prosecutor overseeing the investigation accuses
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Murat Okumus, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Sifa University Hospital in Izmir, was abducted, marking second forced disappearance in a week. “MY SON WAS ABDUCTED! I have failed to get a satisfactory answer from the institutions I talked the issue with. I want to make my voice heard and address
Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) has threatened, along with a group of men, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. In a video clip widely shared on social media on June 21, Kavuz addresses to Kilicdaroglu for his role in the recently organized
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Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after falling from a three-storey-building in the Balikesir in May, said police officers may have had a role in her father’s death. Kayapalı fell to his death, state-run Anadolu agency reported alleging that the 59-year-old author writer attempted to escape a police raid
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Murat Taşhan, a Corum judge who sent 517 people from 21 different occupations to prison over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, was detained as part of a separate investigation into the group last week. Tashan was taken into custody along with his 5 colleagues in Samsun where they had come for a judicial
