Paranoid Turkish government detains one more over hero T-shirt on Saturday
Paranoid Turkish government has detained another man for wearing a ‘hero’ T-shirt on Saturday. A 20-year-old Trabzon man, identified as A.G., was detained while he was in...
Man detained after attacking Atatürk statue with hammer in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
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İbrahim Yeşil, 30, was detained by police on Saturday after he attacked a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, in...
Lawyers: Assassination accusations in Turkey’s Erdoğanist media aim to slander Gülen movement
The lawyers of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen said on Saturday that news reports in the pro-government media accusing Gülen movement followers of...
Police officer purged by Turkish government commits suicide in İstanbul house
Durmuş Ali Çetin, a former police officer who was dismissed from his job by government decree 10 months ago, was found dead at his...
Turkey jails journalist Mehmet Sıddık Damar due to his social media posts
Pro-Kurdish Dihaber news agency reporter Mehmet Sıddık Damar was put in pretrial detention over his social media posts on Friday.
According to media, Damar visited a courthouse in...
Turkish gov’t detains 18 military officers, 12 police officers over their alleged Gülen links
Turkish government has detained 17 military officers, 12 police officers in two investigations carried out in Sivas and İstanbul provinces as part of its...
Turkish police wait to detain Feyza Yaylacı shortly after her delivery of a premature...
Turkish police have been reportedly waiting in front of a door of a patient's room at Memorial Hospital in Ankara, where Feyza Yaylacı has...
Spanish police detain another Turkish writer over Erdoğan regime’s ‘red notice’ to Interpol
Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı was detained by Spanish police in Grenata over the reason that he was wanted by Turkey with "red notice" to...
Turkey arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges
Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...
IPI says 171 journalists behind bars in Turkey
According to the International Press Institute (IPI) currently a total of 171 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey due to their journalistic activities. The international...
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