Purge-victim Denizli teacher commits suicide
Canan Ş., one of the thousands of teachers who were fired by the Turkish government due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, committed suicide in the western province of Denizli on Monday, Turkish media reported. The 40-year-old woman, who left two children...
Purge-victim police chief dies of cancer in İzmir prison: report
Yavuz Bölek, a former police chief who was dismissed from profession following corruption probes implicating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, died of colorectal cancer (CRC) on June 16, 2019. According to a twitter account, Bölek, 52, died in İzmir’s...
OMCT calls on Turkish gov’t to investigate ‘credible’ torture allegations ‘across the country’
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has called on Turkish government to investigate the allegations of torture and other ill-treatment happening across the country. The letter came days after the Şanlıurfa Bar Association claimed that 38 people who were detained...
Iconic Turkish singer under investigation for dedicating song to 13-year-old Gezi Park victim
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the Gezi Park protests of 2013, Gazete Duvar reported on Tuesday. The 84-year-old singer is now...
Police briefly detain Kurdish journalist Baysal on accusations of terrorism
Nurcan Baysal, a Kurdish journalist and human rights activist, was briefly detained on Monday on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization, Turkish media reports said. Baysal was detained due to her participation in a Democratic Society Congress (DTK)...
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[VIDEO] 23 including 6 children detained while escaping from Turkey to Greece in boat
A total of twenty-three people including 6 children were intercepted while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up in a boat near Ciplak Island off Balikesir’s resort district...
Ankara prosecutor launches investigation against German journalist for insulting Erdogan
Ankara prosecutors have opened an investigation into German journalist of Turkish descent Süheyla Kaplan, over posts on her social media accounts, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Friday. Three posts she shared on Facebook and Twitter are now subject to...
Communist mayor under investigation for using province’s Kurdish name
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into a recent decision of the municipal council of Tunceli in eastern Turkey to start calling the province by its original Kurdish name of “Dersim,” Turkish media reported on Friday. By a majority vote on May 7,...
550 high-ranking Turkish diplomats including Harvard, Oxford, Columbia grads, purged since 2016 coup attempt
At least 550 high-ranking Turkish diplomats have been fired from their jobs by the Turkish government since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to Bahadır Gülle, who claims to be one of the 550 purged-diplomats, among them are those with degrees from the...
Turkish woman sent back to prison with newborn 4 days after birth: report
Hatice Şahnaz, in pretrial detention on charges of alleged links to the Gülen movement, was put back behind bars in southern Turkey a few days after delivering a baby. Her four-day-old newborn, Safiye, joined more than 700 children who Turkey is keeping in jail with...
Mother of 2-year-old gets 9 years in prison on terror charges: lawyer
Duygu Çevik, a Turkish housewife, has been given nine years in prison over alleged membership in the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to a tweet posted by Sıdkı Zilan, a lawyer and a human...
36,664 investigations launched for insulting Erdogan, Turkish gov’t in 2018: report
At least 36,664 investigations were launched in Turkey for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish nation and government officials in 2018, Birgun daily reported Saturday. In 11,337 investigations, the overseeing court ordered decided non-prosecution, the...
Armenian weekly AGOS now among newspapers banned by Turkish airlines
Turkey’s national carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) will no longer offer Armenian weekly newspaper Agos to its customers at the international terminal in İstanbul, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Friday. Agos has been among the print media available free of...
Former appeals judge sentenced to 12 years in jail in post-coup trial
A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Turgut Emiroğlu was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror...
74 air force pilots given life sentences on coup charges: report
Seventy-four former Turkish pilots on Thursday received life sentences on charges of attempting to overthrow the government in a trial related to a 2016 failed coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Fifty-six of the defendants received aggravated life...
Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin under investigation over Gülen links: report
Levent Gültekin, an outspoken government critic and a columnist for the Diken news website, is currently under investigation over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to...
Turkish journalist gets 11 months in prison for ‘insulting’ President Erdogan
Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş has been given a prison sentence of eleven months and twenty days for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in tweets she posted. According to a tweet posted by the journalist himself, Kabaş was given the sentence even...
Donald Trump: Purge-victim NASA scientist “will soon be released to the US”
President Donald Trump has thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the release of a Turkish-American scientist imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years, adding laster that he would soon be in the US, The Associated Press reported. Serkan Gölge, a NASA...