📹Seriyye Gulen, a Kenya-based Turkish teacher, says her husband Selahattin Gulen (Fethullah Gulen's relative) was kidnapped in Nairobi on May 3. She's concerned that he was taken to Turkey.
Erdogan's "long-arm" has reached over 18 countries to abduct more than 100 Gulenists.
Videos on Twitter show Turkish asylum seekers in Orestiada, Greece, screaming for help. They say they are fleeing a crackdown by President Erdoğan and are being attacked by masked men with knives. Rights activists call for urgent action from
@hellenicpolice
and EU authorities.
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling on Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher convicted on terrorism charges, indicates Turkey's rights violations are widespread and systemic, says lawyer Johan Heymans. ECtHR invokes Article 46 of ECHR, urging Turkey to address structural issues.
📹Orhan İnandı, founder and president of the Turkish-Kyrgyz Sapat school network, went missing in Bishkek on Monday.
He is feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence due to his links to the Gülen movement.
#WhereIsOrhanInandi
Seventeen Turkish asylum seekers who have crossed the Evros River from Turkey to Greece, including five children and four women, say that they are in danger of freezing to death, and are asking for help from the Greek authorities and international community.
Former Greek finance minister
@yanisvaroufakis
, who currently serves as a member of the Greek parliament spoke with Turkish Minute about illegal pushbacks perpetrated by Greek authorities. │Reporting by
@Btekinofficial
.
"The crackdown on free speech, the crackdown on unions, the crackdown on professionals, the crackdown on journalists is utterly wrong. And the European Court of Human Rights ought to act,"
@jeremycorbyn
said, answering Turkish Minute’s questions. │reporting by
@Btekinofficial
🧵 Thousands of Turkish expatriates are marching to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, demanding swift action on human rights violations in Turkey.
📹Hundreds of people have been protesting since Tuesday in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, demanding that authorities find the president of a prestigious school network in the country who is feared to have been abducted by Ankara.
#FindOrhanInandi
Family members, lawyers, alumni and representatives from the Sapat schools in Kyrgyzstan will hold a news conference at 9 am (CET) today regarding the disappearance of Orhan İnandı, the president of the Sapat schools network in the country.
📹Humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border:
Tensions between Poland and Belarus condemned migrants to hunger and death. 15 migrants died due to hunger and cold.
Bosnian students posted a video on Twitter to launch a campaign aiming to stop deportation of Fatih Keskin, a Turkish teacher working in Bosnia for years, who was detained by the authorities on request from Turkey over Gülen links.
Turkey's opposition party surprisingly won Fındıklı district in Rize province, President Erdoğan's hometown. People chanting: "Welcome democracy!" via
@portakalkafiri
📹Former deputy head of Turkey's Bishkek mission warns both Turkish and Kyrgyz authorities about the legal consequences of abducting Orhan Inandi.
"International actors must pressure both countries and show such crimes will no longer be tolerated."
#OrhanInandiAtTurkishEmbassy
Hakime Ayvaz, whose husband, Harun Ayvaz, has been in custody in Montenegro upon an extradition request from Turkey over Gülen links, calls on officials and human rights activists to help her husband.
In a jaw-dropping exposé, a former associate of Erdoğan has confirmed that the president suffers from epilepsy, claiming that those privy to this closely guarded secret have personally profited from Erdoğan’s generosity.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claims that what happened on July 15, 2016 was a coup attempt aimed at overthrowing his government. Was that really the case?
📹The Turkey Tribunal, a symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, started proceedings in Geneva.
Mehmet Alp, a torture victim, testified during the first session of the tribunal.
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Özdoğan suffers from cancer and is facing imprisonment on a terrorism conviction. According to the Human Rights Association, there are currently 1,605 sick prisoners in Turkish prisons, 604 of whom are critically ill. Critics have slammed authorities for refusing to release them.
“I, as a Greek, a European and a citizen of the world, feel deeply ashamed that society is investing in death in order to prevent the most logical, natural thing, which is human flow,”
@yanisvaroufakis
said, referring to the pushbacks.
Reyhan İnandı: I've not heard from my husband since Monday. His car was found 7-8 km from our house. I am concerned that Turkish officials are holding him hostage.
Although he acquired Kyrgyz citizenship, I am worried about his possible abduction to Turkey.
#WhereIsOrhanInand
ı
Özdoğan was handed down a nine year, six month prison sentence for alleged links to the Gülen movement. An appeals court on June 11 upheld her sentence despite her severe health problems and a hospital report saying she was not fit to stay in prison.
“Democrats have a duty, whenever there is a dictatorial turn in any neighboring country, to give shelter and asylum to fellow democrats escaping the dictators, the authoritarians. The Greeks have a duty to give shelter to Turkish democrats fleeing Erdoğan.” │
@yanisvaroufakis
📹Some alumni of Sapat schools in Bishkek and Chicago demand authorities locate missing educator Orhan Inandi, who was kidnapped on May 31.
The protests mostly take place in front of the Turkish Embassy in Bishkek, where İnandı is believed to be held.
#KidnappedInBishkek
The wife of the president of a school network in Kyrgyzstan who went missing on May 31 says that her husband is currently being held in the Turkish Embassy in Bishkek, and is being forced to sign a document renouncing his Kyrgyz citizenship.
#OrhanInandiAtTurkishEmbassy
“The European Union has been planning policies that will lead to deaths that will, they hope, act as a deterrent to others coming over,”
@yanisvaroufakis
said.
When asked his opinion of the pushbacks of Turks and Kurds by Greek authorities,
@yanisvaroufakis
said both Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Turkish President Erdoğan were authoritarians and that it is not surprising that they are “de facto cooperating” on the matter.
Alluding to the fact that Konstantinos Mitsotakis, the father of Prime Minister
@kmitsotakis
, escaped to France through Turkey in 1967 when a military coup took place in Greece,
@yanisvaroufakis
asserted that it is a duty for democrats to give shelter to people fleeing dictators.