Alper Ertürk, an Aydin-based teacher who reported himself to a prosecutor for his affiliation to the Gulen movement, has been sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, Erturk said in a petition to the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office, dated Dec 18, 2014: “I have been involved in […]
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Ahmet Odabaş, former district governor who was appointed as a trustee to administer Mardin’s Kızıltepe Municipality, has removed the statue of Uğur Kaymaz, 12-year-old Kurdish child who was killed in a police crossfire along with his father in 2004. A clock tower was erected in lieu of Kaymaz’s statue on Monday. Ugur and his father
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A total of 930 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 930 were detained over their alleged links to the movement between June 12-19. The ministry also
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At least 13 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement followers in Kahramanmaras, on Tuesday. Detention warrants were earlier issued for 13 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs over alleged links to the movement. Kahramanmaras police detained 9 of the suspects by Tueday afternoon. The detainees also included
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The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 49 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 101
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The İstanbul 15th High Criminal Court on Monday rejected an objection to arrest of jailed main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu. Berberoğlu was arrested last Wednesday immediately after he was handed down a prison sentence of 25 years for leaking information for a report on National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks transporting weapons to
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Four people have been detained in the Keşan district of Edirne province while attempting to flee to Greece in a bid to escape a post-coup witch-hunt currently ongoing in Turkey, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, a surgeon, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz (34), and a physician, Meryem Dağdelen (31), who were both
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An İstanbul court has ruled for the arrest of 31 more lawyers as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, the pro-gov’t Karar daily reported on Monday. Last week, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 78 lawyers over their alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, which
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who is walking from Ankara to İstanbul in his “March of Justice,” must seek justice in Parliament lest he be “invited by the judiciary [to testify].” Speaking during a meeting of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) on
The 24-year-old lieutenant Y.G. was taken under custody when the navy ship he had been ordered to serve at was docked at a naval base for bunkering, on June 14. Charged as part of a Bursa-based investigation into the Gulen movement, Y.G. was detained after his ship was docked at Aksaz naval base in Mugla
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