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Novelists fighting for jailed Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is the kind of modern diplomacy we ...

Edit The Independent 13 Sep 2016
The Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan has been detained by his country’s Government. How many more journalists and writers will be taken away to rot in a crowded cell? From Turkey to Egypt, the imprisonment of creative and intellectuals has reached unprecedented levels ... These writers have huge international readerships, with their words translated into tens of languages....

Four Paralympians just ran the 1500 metres faster than the Olympic gold medallist

Edit Business Insider 13 Sep 2016
Abdellatif Baka (centre) shows off his gold medal alongside Tamiru Demisse (left) and Henry Kirwa (right) ... Baka clinched gold in the T13 class where athletes suffer from visual impairment ... Men's T13 1500m final ... Copyright 2016 ... Fans attending Europa League clash told to 'maintain a low profile' in Holland Novelists fighting for jailed Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is the kind of modern diplomacy we urgently need. Loading video... ....

New find suggests there may have been a fire aboard flight MH370 before crash

Edit AOL 13 Sep 2016
A man who's found several pieces believed to be from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 now says he's found pieces with burn marks. Debris hunter Blaine Gibson recently found five new pieces that allegedly belong to the plane, which mysteriously veered thousands of miles off course and crashed in the Indian Ocean in 2014. Two of those pieces show burn marks. Malaysia MH370 debris found ... 6, 2015 ... Ahmet Burak Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)....

Turkish Nobel Prize winner: Turkey is sliding into a 'reign of terror'

Edit Business Insider 12 Sep 2016
The crackdown is being driven by "the most ferocious hatred," he added ... His front-page opinion piece was published by La Repubblica newspaper a day after the dawn detention of prominent journalist Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan, a renowned academic and economist ... Ahmet Altan was for years a columnist with top dailies like Hurriyet and Milliyet before in 2007 founding the opposition daily Taraf ... More from AFP. ... ....

Senior defense around the world discuss North Korea's nuclear th... (Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Sep 2016
(Source. Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea). Senior defense around the world discuss North Korea's nuclear threats. Five international organizations and 33 countries attended for the 5th anniversary ... Furthermore, Ahmet Üzümcü, the Secretary General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), is expected to send a message of peace to the Korean Peninsula through his keynote address ... (noodl....

Turkey ousts mayors of pro-Kurdish towns

Edit Arkansas Online 12 Sep 2016
The move led to protests that police later dispersed using water cannons and tear gas ... they lose their democratic legitimacy.". The U.S ... The letter said the group was particularly disturbed by the detention of novelist Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan, an economics professor, who Turkey accused of transmitting subliminal messages to rally coup supporters on TV the night before the coup attempt ... A Section on 09/12/2016 ....

Spanovic arouses the appetite for European Indoors (EAA - European Athletic Association)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Sep 2016
(Source. EAA - European Athletic Association) ... Fans packed to watch the special street event in the Serbian capital and Spanovic gave them a performance to remember as she soared to a sensational 7.10m ... Belotti's performance helped lead Italy's women to team gold while Turkey's Ahmet Arslan (1.04.48) landed bronze in the men's race won by American Joseph Gray (1.02.13) ... 'It's good to finish the year on a high, what a year I have had....

Joe Gray leads men to top of podium at World Mountain Running Championships, Team USA women take bronze (USATF - USA Track & Field)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Sep 2016
(Source. USATF - USA Track & Field) ... Gray covered the demanding 12.7-kilometer course, which boasted 1,468 meters of climbing and 107 meters of descent, in a time of 1.02.12, followed by Mexico's Israel Morales in 1.03.51, and Ahmet Arslan of Turkey in 1.04.48 ... 'It was a dream that became a reality,' said Gray. 'The icing on the cake was the team gold.' ... I did my best today and gave it everything I had ... I love climbing.' ... (noodl. 35320835) ....

'Clair Obscur': Toronto Review

Edit Screen Daily 11 Sep 2016
Ecum Uzun is unnervingly convincing as a girl left traumatised by her marriage, catatonic in her silences and raging like a trapped animal in panic and terror at what fresh ordeal might lie ahead ... If Sehnaz is the lipstick-wearing face of a forward-looking Turkey then teenager Elmas (Ecem Uzun) is very much the embodiment of conservative traditions that refuse to fade away ... Fuda Eryigit, Ecem Uzun, Mehmet Kurtulus, Oka Yalabik....

Turkey has detained a prominent novelist. We unite to say this vendetta must end

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
We are particularly disturbed to see the prominent novelist Ahmet Altan, and his brother, Mehmet Altan, a writer and distinguished professor of economics, being detained in a dawn raid on 10 September 2016 ... Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most important writers, whose novels appear in translation and sell in the millions....

Brothers critical of Turkish regime arrested after TV programme

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
Ahmet Altan, a former newspaper editor, and his brother Mehmet, a prominent academic, have been taken into custody for ‘subliminal messages’. The Turkish police has detained Ahmet Altan, the journalist and author, and his brother Mehmet Altan, a prominent academic, raising international concern over Turkey’s continued arrests of government critics in the wake of the bloody coup attempt in July....

Turkey detains prominent journalist in coup probe

Edit Topix 11 Sep 2016
Turkish police on Saturday detained a veteran journalist and his academic brother as part of the investigation into the failed July 15 coup, the latest prominent figures to be detained in the controversial crackdown after the putsch. Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and his brother, Professor Mehmet Altan, were detained early in the morning by Istanbul anti-terror police, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported ... ....

Prominent thinkers urge Turkey to end writers' 'witch hunt'

Edit Atlanta Journal 11 Sep 2016
They said particularly disturbing was the detention of novelist Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan, an economics professor, for allegedly transmitting ......
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