The Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 14 businessmen 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 Wednesday. Six of the 14 businessmen were […]
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At least 7,605 arrest warrants are outstanding as part of investigations into the Gulen movement in Turkey where the government has already put 50,344 people in pre-trial detention in its crackdown against the group since last summer. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt while the latter denies involvement.
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Mehmet Ali Aslan was detained at Batman Airport while he was on his way to Ankara on Tuesday. “It looks like I won’t be able to break my fast in Ankara. I am being detained at Batman Airport. God is great,” wrote Aslan from his Twitter account on Tuesday
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The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 42 people working at Turkey’s Interior Ministry over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to the pro-gov’t Sabah daily, Police teams began the detentions of the
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Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against a group of protestors who were fired by a government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. In the 45-second video, posted by Ozguruz.org news portal, protestors were assaulted by a group of police officers and taken into
Elif Coşkun, who just gave birth on Monday night in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, will reportedly be taken into custody at the hospital due to her links to the Gülen movement, according to an opposition deputy. Raising concerns about the situation of Coşkun from his Twitter account, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul
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A group of homophobic people allegedly from a nationalist youth movement called “Köklü Değişim” [Radical Change] on Sunday attacked tens of people attending the Mersin Pride Parade to show their support for sexual and gender diversity. Third time in its history, Mersin’s LGBT community dressed in rainbow attire and culminated with a rally in gay-friendly Mersin
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The Qatari police have detained five members of a Turkish family who are linked to the Gülen movement while the family was on their way to South Africa, yenihamle.com news website reported on Monday. The detained individuals are members of the Bayındır family, businessman father Muhammed, mother Fadime and daughters Eslem, Kübra and Feyza. The
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The father of a 21-year-old university student who died after jumping off a balcony due to depression over her father’s imprisonment has been denied permission by a prosecutor to attend his daughter’s funeral. A fourth year student at the Istanbul-based Boğaziçi University’s faculty of education, Tuğçe Ölçer jumped to her death from the balcony of
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Zehra Doğan, a Turkish painter who has been handed down a prison sentence of two years, nine months, 22 days for depicting the destruction caused by military operations carried out in the Nusaybin district of Mardin province, was sent to Diyarbakır Prison on Monday. Doğan was reportedly stopped by police on the Diyarbakır-Mardin highway and
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