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BREAKING: All political prisoners in #Turkey are now denied the right to meet lawyers, family, & make phone calls pic.twitter.com/TTqbxm9WUN
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) July 19, 2016
BREAKING: All political prisoners in #Turkey are now denied the right to meet lawyers, family, & make phone calls pic.twitter.com/TTqbxm9WUN
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) July 19, 2016
Council of Higher Education Demands Resignation of Every Dean
Turkey's govt so far purged 1577 university deans, 8000 police, 9000 military, at least 20,000 other civil servants inc judges & teachers
— Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) July 19, 2016
West calls on Turkish president to respect democracy and civil liberties as supporters defend large-scale arrests and repression
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has refused to rule out executing the ringleaders of last week’s failed coup, despite repeated warnings from western leaders who said the use of the death penalty would end Turkish hopes of joining the European Union.
We asked people living in Turkey how they have been affected by the military coup attempt. Here they share their experiences
ETF Daily News
Since Turkey’s failed military coup on Friday, more than 6,000 people in the civil service, security forces and military have been arrested. Writers and journalists fear that Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will use the failed putsch as grounds to dramatically escalate his continuing purge of opponents, particularly in the media. Phoebe Greenwood goes to Istanbul to meet the journalists risking life sentences to report and publish stories critical of the Erdoğan government
Hearing explosions during the coup attempt was scary enough, but so are the abuses that are being carried out by Erdoğan’s supporters in the name of ‘democracy’I was at a barbecue in the garden of the British embassy bar in Ankara on Friday night when F16s started roaring overhead. We soon heard that the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul had been blocked off, too, and there was talk from various off-duty officials of an attempt at a military coup. It seemed so unlikely.
The National
On Monday night, WikiLeaks announced it would soon release more than 100,000 emails and 500,000 leaked documents related to Turkey’s political power structure. “AKP supporters should pay attention,” the organisation tweeted tauntingly, referring to
Statement from Ambassador Bass
The U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass | July 18, 2016
The president will take this chance to weaken the media, judiciary and military. He has one-man rule in his sights
Here is the list of fake news spreading in social media after the attempt of military coup on 15th July, 2016: Attention: This list indicates some graphic and disturbing visuals Claim: President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev stated that in case of a
Turkey’s artists face growing government pressure
Al-Monitor
Hence, the Bilgi students’ banner juxtaposing the ruling party’s attitudes on arts and rape. The war on sculptures has, however, continued. A piece by a Vietnamese artist on display outside a cultural center in a CHP-run district in Bursa was
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