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The Grand Turk
Turkey ‘detains’ academics linked to jailed activist
2018-11-18
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday detained over a dozen people including academics from two Istanbul universities linked with an association led by imprisoned human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
activist Osman Kavala, a state-run news agency
...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
reported.

Police issued arrest warrants for 20 people as part of an investigation into Anadolu Kultur (Anatolian Culture) whose chairman Kavala has been locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for more than a year but not formally charged, Anadolu news agency said.

Twelve had been rounded up so far in simultaneous raids at several addresses early on Friday, it added.

Professor Betul Tanbay of the prestigious Bogazici University and Professor Turgut Tarhanli, deputy dean of the private Bilgi University, were among the detainees.

The academics were linked to Anadolu Kultur.

The operation also targeted Anadolu Kultur executives including deputy chairman Yigit Ekmekci, as well as board member Ali Hakan Altinay, coordinator Asena Gunal and consultants Cigdem Mater and Meltem Aslan, the agency said. It was not immediately clear what charges the detainees face.

Opposition CHP party MP Sezgin Tanrikulu criticised the detentions on Twitter.

"Again a Friday, again detentions... Those who expect normalisation from this regime should continue to dream," he said referring to President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

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