Sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu taken under custody in Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt
Uğur Kömeçoğlu, an associate professor at the sociology department of the government-closed Süleyman Şah University, has joined the ranks of intellectuals imprisoned in the aftermath...
A schoolmate of Turkey’s President Erdoğan’s son to run state-owned TRT
İbrahim Eren, a schoolmate of Bilal Erdoğan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been appointed general manager of public broadcaster TRT following...
Three SAT commandos detained on coup charges in Edirne while trying to flee Turkey
Three Turkish Underwater Attack Commandos (SAT) commandos who allegedly took part in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, were detained in...
Gülen says Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism must be stopped in WP article
On the day when Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House, Turkish-Islamic scholar...
Apple co-founder Wozniak cancels his attendance in İstanbul Municipality’s Expo
The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, canceled his participation to İstanbul Municipality’s World Cities Expo event. Wozniak was scheduled to deliver his speech in...
767 people detained in a week across Turkey over alleged links with Gülen movement
Turkey's Interior Ministry has announced on Monday that a total of 767 people were detained across Turkey during the week of May 8-15, 2017...
Intellectuals call the gov’t to end the state of emergency in Turkey
Renowned Turkish writers, academics, journalists and activists have called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to end a state of emergency, also...
Journalist Güven arrested by an İstanbul court over alleged terror propaganda
Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven, who was detained on May 12 for a report that appeared on the daily’s website about the recent traffic...
Woman, detained at hospital and jailed with 3-day-old baby over alleged Gülen links, released
Aysun Aydemir, was detained at the hospital just after giving birth to a baby in an elective caesarean procedure and subsequently arrested by a...
PURGE IN LAST 15 DAYS: 1257 detained, 264 jailed in Turkey over coup charges
A massive post-coup witch hunt campaign conducted by political Islamist AKP government to cleanse of Turkey’s state and other institutions has been continuing as...
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