At least 20 of eighty university students who were detained by Ankara police last week, were put in pre-trial detention on Wednesday over alleged links to Gulen group. According to the Bold news, among the arrestees is the son of Ali Özer, a 48-year-old medical doctor who died of a heart attack in Çorum Prison […]
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Thousands of people have fled Turkey over the past three years due to a massive witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government against its critics such as academics, Kurdish politicians and especially the real or imagined sympathizers of the Gülen group, in the wake of a failed coup attempt on July
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Ever since the purge in Turkey started in July 2016, thousands of Turks have fled the country to different parts of the world. Among those are high-ranking Turkish diplomats, academics, police officers, teachers and many others from different walks of life. And many of them have either experienced ill-treatment in custody, or even worse; subjected
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An İstanbul man who publicly protested Turkish interior minister Süleyman Soylu during an election rally on Sunday was detained by police, several media outlets reported. The unidentified protestor protested Soylu’s criticism of the Felicity Party (SP) at a rally in the Üsküdar district. Soylu claimed the minor opposition SP “carried the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party
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A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison, on Tuesday. Former Council of State member Mithat Ozcan was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to imprison
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More than 100 people allegedly affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group have been forcibly brought back from abroad so far, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran. “Over 20 FETO schools [abroad] were taken over . The latest of such incident was in Pakistan. We got some remarkable results in Afghanistan as well. So far,
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An Istanbul prosecutor ordered a “secret” investigation against family members of 19 journalists, accused of links to the Gulen movement, according to an internal correspondence within Turkish bureaucracy, revealed Monday by journalist Abdullah Bozkurt. Screenshots of the prosecutor’s order, dated Dec 19, 2016, and a subsequent response from Istanbul police on Jan 24, 2017 show
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Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) Chairman Muhiddin Gülal has announced that a total of 1,022 companies have been taken over the by the TMSF due to their links to the Gülen movement since a failed coup on July 15, 2016, the Sputnik Türkiye reported on Tuesday. The Turkish government accuses the Gülen movement
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Two years since the failed coup attempt! Mass jailings, sackings and the suspension of the rule of law by the Turkish gov’t have produced thousands of victims. Here are some of the most unique faces of Turkey’s Purge: son yeni son
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An İstanbul court on Saturday ruled for the release of Ali Bulaç, a columnist for now-closed Zaman daily, and Mehmet Özdemir, the managing editor of now-closed Yeni Hayat daily. 9 other Zaman journalists, columnists remain in jail. The ordeal is not over. Final hearing set for 7-8 June. Zaman journalists are facing “terrorism” and “coup-plotting” charges
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