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On 1 November 2014, multiple protests took place to support the Kurds of Kobanî. 5,000 people demonstrated in the Turkish town of Suruç, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border. At least 15,000 marched in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır and 1,000 protested in Istanbul, all peaceful. [16]
On 17 August 2016, Turkey started releasing what was expected to eventually amount to about 38,000 prison inmates, to make more space in the penal system for detainees, numbering about 35,000, who were arrested or detained after being involved in or suspected of association, with the 2016 failed coup. [197] [198]
7 February – A plane is forced to land in Turkey following a bomb threat from a passenger [4] on board a flight from Kharkiv in Ukraine.; 9 February – Tear gas and water cannons used by the Erdoğan government against street protests against his government's internet restrictions.
On 26 July 2016, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced that Turkey's EU membership process would come to an end if the death penalty was returned in Turkey. [120] On 4 and 5 August 2016, the Istanbul and İzmir 1st Criminal Court of Peace issued an arrest warrant for U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen.
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Turkey's General Directorate for Press, Broadcasting, and Information also revoked at least 620 journalists' accreditations. As a result of the crackdown, 2,308 media workers and journalists have lost their job. [5] Turkey's media purge has also occurred online: regulators blocked at least 30 news-related websites. [1]
On Nov. 26, 2014, President Barack Obama pardoned two turkeys, Virgil and Homer, from Cooper Farms in Fort Recovery, Ohio. The near-50-pound turkeys were spared from a Thanksgiving Day feast and ...
Not yet on the 2024-25 hunting calendar, although likely soon to be, are dates and rules for next spring’s wild turkey season. Proposals for the 2025 spring season were handed to the eight ...