London newspaper forced to shut as Erdogan allies seek vengeance
President Erdogan’s Islamist administration has already jailed 35,000 people, including judges and journalists, in a clampdown on free speech
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Date posted: September 16, 2016
DOMINIC KENNEDY
A Turkish opposition newspaper in Britain has been forced to close and its journalists have gone into hiding as supporters of President Erdogan unleash a campaign of intimidation against exiles.
Turks in Britain are being urged on social media to spy on each other and report suspected political opponents to the authorities in their homeland.
The Facebook page Brotherhood in Islam posted the address of a nursery school with the claim that its owners were spreading support for terrorism.
Turkish dissidents are living in fear that the authorities in Ankara will suspend their passports and demand that they be extradited…
Award ceremony cancellation on Parliament’s agenda
EMRULLAH BAYRAK / ANKARA Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu spoke in Parliament on Wednesday about the cancellation of the award ceremony of a short film contest after the competition was won by Seleme Gülen, a relative of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Bringing the issue to the floor of Parliament, […]
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Turkey Coup Attempt: Who is Fethullah Gülen, The Cleric Being Accused Of Orchestrating The Turmoil?
In an address to his supporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport early on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Fethullah Gülen — a cleric living in a self-imposed exile in the United States — of orchestrating the coup attempt against his government. Here’s what you need to know about Gülen, who has denied being involved in the […]
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The US has confirmed it has received a formal extradition request from Ankara for the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, but not over the July coup attempt the Turkish authorities has accused Gülen of orchestrating.
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