Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen group. The group denies any involvement. Sınce the coup attempt, at least 106 people have died while in pre-trial detention or in […]
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Oktay Candemir, a former reporter for the pro-Kurdish DIHA news agency was detained in the eastern province of Van on Monday. Candemir was taken into custody due to his reports on Turkey’s recent offensive in Syria’s Afrin, ANF said. On Jan 22, Turkish troops entered Afrin area, which is controlled by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’
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Veli Büyükşahin and Veli Haydar Güleç, the two journalists from the now-defunct TV 10 television channel were put in pretrial detention on Thursday. TV10 is one of at least 180 media outlets the government shut down in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Detained on accusations of membership to a terror group,
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Ahmet Tuncer Yolcu and Zeynep Yolcu, a Turkish couple who were arrested some two weeks ago over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, have allegedly faced maltreatment, physical violence and torture as well as being threatened with death, according to a report in the Grihat news portal. According to the report, Zeynep and his husband Ahmet
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The Turkish government has failed to issue licenses for at least 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors, who have still been waiting for the security/intelligence investigation to be completed after they graduated from medical school under the rule of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According a report
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Thursday that 285 Turkish nationals who live in Pakistan are at risk of forcible repatriation, arbitrary arrest and other human rights abuses. The statement came days after the deportation of the Kaçmaz family on Oct.
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A Kastamonu-based university student, identified as M.A., received a 6-years-and-3-months prison term over terror charges, on Tuesday. Under arrest for some time over his/her use of ByLock mobile application, M.A. was sentenced for alleged membership to the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and thus describes as
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Detention warrants were issued for 102 people as part of an investigation into the alleged sympathizers of the Gülen movement, on Friday. The operation targets the movement’s allegedly secretive clique within the country’s stock exchange, Borsa İstanbul (BİST). Police carried out operations in the provinces of İstanbul, Giresun, Balıkesir, Kayseri, Bursa and Ankara and have
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ترکی میں حقوق انسانی کی خلاف ورزیوں کی مانیٹرنگ کرنے والے سٹاک ہوم سینٹر فار فریڈم (SCF) کو موصول ہونے والی مصدقہ اطلاعات کے مطابق ترک دارالحکومت میں غیر سرکاری قید خانے میں بڑے پیمانے پر تشدد کیا گیا ہے۔ یہ رپورٹ اس ادارے کی ویب سائٹ پر پیر کے دن شائع ہوئی۔ گزشتہ ہفتے
انقرہ میں غیر سرکاری قید خانے میں وسیع پیمانے پر تشدد، مانیٹرنگ گروپ کا دعویٰ Read More »
