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In early November 2017, Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Henri J. Barkey , former Director of the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, stating that he is an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that he was present in Istanbul during the 2016 Turkish coup attempt ...
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returns to Istanbul Atatürk Airport indicating that the coup may be faltering. (The New York Times) Erdoğan declares that the coup is over with over 1,500 members of the Turkish military in detention.
The Turkish representative for Reporters Without Borders called the arrests "a witch hunt against journalists". [20] David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression said that "the attempted coup cannot justify such a broad attack against almost all voices, not just critical ones but analytic and journalistic." [21]
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Despite legal provisions, freedom of the press in Turkey has steadily deteriorated from 2010 onwards, with a precipitous decline following the attempted coup in July 2016. [2] [3] The Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrested hundreds of journalists, closed or taken over dozens of media outlets, and prevented journalists and ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted ...
Gaza: The ruling Islamic militant group Hamas condemned the Turkish coup d'état attempt as a "vicious" plot to overthrow President Erdoğan. [ 75 ] Northern Cyprus – Mustafa Akıncı , President of Northern Cyprus , said that commanders of Turkish troops deployed in the separatist Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus remained loyal to Turkey ...