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Ahval
April 20, 2018
To gauge U.S. Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo's stance on Turkey, we can analyse three events. The first was a tweet Pompeo sent on July 15, 2016, just as the military coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was failing. Pompeo referenced Iranian Foreign MinisterÃâà...
News & Observer (blog)
April 19, 2018
The 48-year-old Brunson has spent much of his adult life in Turkey, where he created the Izmir Resurrection Church. Izmir is located in on the west coast of Turkey, across the Aegean Sea from Greece. Brunson was arrested in October 2016 after the failed July coup attempt on Turkish president RecepÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 19, 2018
A Greek court on Thursday set free a Turkish coup plotter under judicial control. The asylum request of Suleyman Ozkaynakci, the coup plotter, had been accepted in Dec. 2017 by Independent Asylum Commission, but later the Greek government raised objection over it. He was released briefly after beingÃâà...
TRT World
April 19, 2018
An Ankara court on Thursday handed down aggravated life sentences to 18 Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) convicts for their roles in the murder of a Turkish officer during the 2016 defeated coup attempt in Turkey, a judicial source said. Omer Halisdemir was killed during the night of defeated coupÃâà...
Ahval
April 18, 2018
Greece is to release in May eight Turkish soldiers who fled there after the failed 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, news website Greek Reporter said on Tuesday. The issue of the eight Turkish servicemen, who flew a military helicopter to Greece after the attempt to topple the Turkish government collapsed,Ãâà...
Business Insider
April 18, 2018
Trump says 'I am more a spy than he is' in an appeal for Turkey to release a jailed American pastor accused of supporting a failed coup ... He has been jailed there for the last 18 months, on accusations he helped support a group of Turkish soldiers who tried to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.
Middle East Eye
April 18, 2018
Turkish authorities have identified 3,000 people within the armed forces believed to be linked to the cleric Ankara blames for a 2016 failed coup, Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said, adding they would be dismissed in the coming days. Canikli was quoted by broadcaster NTV as saying the suspects,Ãâà...
Ahval
April 17, 2018
A Turkish prosecutor in a case against more than 150 charged with involvement in the failed 2016 military coup has been accused of hiding evidence from the scene of the crime, Islamist newspaper Yeni Şafak said . Witnesses in the case against 152 soldiers and three civilians accused of involvement withÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 17, 2018
Government Spokesperson and Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said Tuesday that Greece had violated international law by not returning the July 15, 2016 coup suspects to Turkey, while urging Athens to give up its provocative and aggressive acts to avoid undesired incidents around the AegeanÃâà...
The Punch
April 17, 2018
A total of 28 soldiers were handed life sentences on Tuesday in three separate cases related to a failed military coup in 2016, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news ... This week, the Turkish parliament will vote on extending the state of emergency by another three months, which – if completed – would mean theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
A court in Turkey has ruled to keep an American pastor in custody, saying that he was a potential flight risk as he went on trial in a case that has compounded strains in US-Turkish relations. Andrew Brunson, a Christian pastor from North Carolina who has lived in Turkey for more than two decades, wasÃâà...
BBC News
April 16, 2018
An American pastor on trial in Turkey has denied charges of aiding a terrorist organisation, in a case that has frayed Turkey-US relations. Andrew Brunson is accused of helping a group led by Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Muslim preacher who Turkish authorities allege was behind a failed 2016 coup.
New York Times
April 5, 2018
Turkish secret agents in 18 countries have seized 80 Turks suspected of having links to a group accused of plotting a coup in 2016 and returned them to Turkey, a senior government official said Thursday. Bekir Bozdag, the deputy prime minister, hinted at audacious actions by Turkish intelligenceÃâà...
BBC News
March 9, 2018
A Turkish court has sentenced 25 journalists to jail for alleged links to a group the government blames for a failed coup attempt in July 2016. Twenty-three of them were convicted of membership of an armed terrorist organisation and were given prison terms of up to seven and a half years. Two wereÃâà...
The Verge
February 28, 2018
How a secretive, unknown smartphone app became the center of Turkey's post-coup crackdown ... More than 260 were killed before the coup was squelched. ... Many of those arrests and dismissals hinged on a previously unheard-of app called ByLock, which Turkish courts have since determined to beÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 16, 2018
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists to life in prison in relation to a failed coup attempt in 2016, state media reported. The six journalists received aggravated life sentences for "attempting to overthrow the constitutional order", an unnamed judicial source told Anadolu news agency on Friday. TurkeyÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 16, 2018
Deniz Yucel, a Turkish-German journalist for German newspaper Die Welt who was detained in Turkey for more than a year, walks from prison after being ... A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists and media employees accused of involvement in Turkey's 2016 coup attempt to life in prison withoutÃâà...
