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Young Turk voters show deep divisions of Erdogan era

The Jordan Times 21 Jun 2018

ANKARA — Eighteen-year-old student Sena Su Baysal, a first-time voter in Turkey's election on Sunday, can't remember life before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took power but she wishes she had grown up in those earlier times ... Welat Aydin, a Kurdish citizen in a remote village in the southeastern province of Mardin, is concerned about the status of the Kurdish language, and a lack of resources in schools ... Image. Section ... Section Agency....

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Blog: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 7, 2018

CPJ 10 May 2018

Journalists arrested. On May 3, authorities in the southern city of Mersin transferred İsmail Çoban, former news editor for the shuttered Kurdish language daily Azadiya Welat, the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, where he will remain in custody pending trial, according to reports ... ....

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Sole Kurdish newspaper in Turkey prevented from printing, goes online

Kurdistan24 03 Apr 2018

Welat newspaper, the only Kurdish language daily in Turkey, was forced to halt its print version. (Source. Kurdistan 24) ... ....

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Syrian Kurds resume establishment of army for north Syria, graduate 3,500 fighters

Kurdistan Media 03 Mar 2018

Speaking to Kurdistan 24, Siyamend Welat, the general command of the self-defense forces in north Syria, said their forces would defend the border and cities of the region ... Welat added....

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American Music Awards 2017: Watch BTS performance at AMAs online

International Business Times 20 Nov 2017

South Korean boy band BTS performs at the American Music Awards 2017.Twitter/AMAs. BTS, the seven-member South Korean boy band, is attending the American Music Awards (AMAs) for the first time this year.  ... A section of social media users is desperate to know all about them ... OMG WHO IS HE? HE LOOKS LIKE A WHOLE SNACK! I NEED A NAME #Amas #BTSxAMAs pic.twitter.com/oG4jr9u6Zg— Welat (@OnlyRiihanna) 19 November 2017 ... Related ... ....

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Blog: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 12

CPJ 14 Mar 2017

Editor sentenced to nine years in prison. The 7th Court for Serious Crimes in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır yesterday sentenced Aydın Atar, former news editor for the shuttered Kurdish-language daily newspaper Azadiya Welat, to nine years, four months, and 15 days in prison on charges of "propagandizing for a [terrorist] organization," the news website Dihaber reported. The journalist is free, pending appeal ... ....

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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 19

CPJ 21 Feb 2017

Detention of Die Welt Turkey correspondent complicates relations with Germany ... "[Merkel] said that it is of the utmost importance that Mr ... News website censored ... [February 23, 2017] ... report ... Police in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on February 17 detained Hayati Yıldız, a former employee of the stuttered Kurdish-language daily newspaper Azadiya Welat, and beat him in custody, the Dihaber news agency reported on February 19....

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Turkey detains 400 Islamic State suspects in nationwide raids

Yahoo Daily News 06 Feb 2017

More. Turkish police have reportedly detained approximately 400 suspected members of Islamic State (Isis) in raids across the country on Sunday (5 February). Those arrested include foreigners and alleged terrorists suspected of planning attacks, reported Turkish news agency Anadolu ... All have been claimed by IS and the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (Teyrenbazen Azadiya Kurdistan; TAK) ... ....

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Silencing Turkey’s Media

Human Rights 15 Dec 2016

... Özkaya, Özgür Halk Şirin Çoban, Azadiya Welat İlker İlkan, Azadiya Welat Cemil Uğur, Evrensel Mehmet Anıl, ETHA Sadık Demir, Radyo Karacadağ Mizgin Çay, Radyo Karacadağ Salih Erbekler, Radyo Karacadağ Togay Okay, Özgür Gelecek newspaper Ayhan Karahan, local Bodrum journalist Perihan Kara, freelance journalist Aysel Işık, JİNHA freelance journalist....

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Blog: Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of November 13

CPJ 14 Nov 2016

Two years in prison for newspaper editor. Diyarbakır's Fourth Court for Serious Crimes yesterday sentenced İsmail Çoban, responsible news editor of the Kurdish-language daily newspaper Azadiya Welat to two years and four months in prison for "propagandizing for a [terrorist] organization," the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which the Turkish government classifies as a terrorist group ... ....

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Turkey: Deepening Crackdown Over 2 Days

Human Rights 31 Oct 2016

There are warrants out for the arrest of at least three more, including former editor Can Dündar ... Expand ... © 2016 Reuters. The crackdown on Cumhuriyet newspaper caps a weekend in which the government, on October 29, ordered 15 mostly Kurdish media outlets shut down, including the Dicle News Agency, the Kurdish-language Azadiya Welat daily newspaper, and the journal Evrensel Kültür ... She and Fırat Anlı assumed the title of co-mayor ... ....

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Mayors Removed as Turkish Crackdown Intensifies

Voa News 12 Sep 2016

Turkey's crackdown on the outlawed Kurdish rebel group the PKK is increasingly targeting the country's legal pro-Kurdish movement ... "To me, it is a step that came late. It should have been taken long before," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Monday ... Turkey's only Kurdish-language newspaper, Azadiya Welat, was closed by a court, along with the main pro-Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Gundem, on charges of supporting terrorism ... ....

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I’m a journalist on the run from Erdoğan – I have no idea what I’ve done

The Guardian 02 Sep 2016

The long wait, filled with anxiety, is at last over ... It was a text message from the doorman of my apartment block in Istanbul. “Mr Yavuz, police entered your flat a short while ago with the help of a locksmith ... After the recent closure of pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem and the arrests of intellectuals such as author Aslı Erdoğan, police raided another Kurdish paper, Azadiya Welat, in Diyarbakır, and rounded up 27 Kurdish staff ... AP ... ....

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