Posts tagged with "coup"

Greek court temporarily freezes asylum to Turkish soldier Greece

Greek court temporarily freezes asylum to Turkish soldier

January 8th, 2018 Greece won on Monday a temporary injunction freezing asylum granted to a Turkish soldier who fled with seven others to the country after a botched coup attempt against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. An appeals court in Athens upheld a request by the Greek government to freeze the asylum status granted by an independent...
‘There's no going back,’ Zimbabwe's party tells Mugabe (Update) Africa

‘There's no going back,’ Zimbabwe's party tells Mugabe (Update)

November 17th, 2017 Leaders of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit, a senior party source said on Friday. The self-styled grand old man of African politics, the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence in 1980, insists he is still...
43 soldiers found guilty of trying to kill Erdogan in Turkey (Update) Turkey

43 soldiers found guilty of trying to kill Erdogan in Turkey (Update)

October 4th, 2017 A Turkish court on Wednesday found 43 former soldiers guilty of attempting to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during last year's failed coup, and handed most of them life sentences in the highest profile case related to the attempted putsch so far. Judge Emirsah Bastog read out guilty verdicts for 43 of the 47 defendants, according to a...
Turkey to detain 254 municipal, ministry staff over Gulen links Turkey

Turkey to detain 254 municipal, ministry staff over Gulen links

October 3rd, 2017 Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 254 Istanbul municipality and ministry staff over alleged links to the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating last year's attempted coup, state media said on Tuesday. The magnitude of the latest operations - which targeted current as well as previously dismissed staff - mark a fresh...
Turkey detains main opposition leader's lawyer over coup links Turkey

Turkey detains main opposition leader's lawyer over coup links

September 15th, 2017 Turkey detained the main opposition leader's lawyer on Friday for alleged links to the network accused of carrying out last year's failed coup, in a widening government crackdown. Lawyer Celal Celik was a former top court judge who resigned from his post in September 2011 in protest of the rising influence of U.S.-based Muslim cleric...
Disciplinary inquiry into civil defence official's coup praise Cyprus

Disciplinary inquiry into civil defence official's coup praise

July 18th, 2017 A civil defence officer is facing a disciplinary inquiry after he uploaded a post on his Facebook page praising the July 1974 coup against president Makarios. The post, which was later removed, contained photos of National Guard commandos, one at the bombed presidential palace the day of the coup, July 15, 1974, accompanied with the...
Turkey detains 115 more people in post-coup crackdown - Anadolu Turkey

Turkey detains 115 more people in post-coup crackdown - Anadolu

July 17th, 2017 Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 127 people on suspicion of links to the attempted military coup a year ago, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. In a report late on Sunday, Anadolu said 115 of the suspects including businessmen, midwives and journalists had so far been detained in operations in the northwestern...
One year after failed coup, Turkey lurches toward dictatorship Opinion

One year after failed coup, Turkey lurches toward dictatorship

July 16th, 2017 By Howard Eissenstat There is no overstating the trauma of the attempted coup that shook Turkey a year ago this Saturday. Turkey, which had believed the age of military coups was behind it, once again witnessed tanks on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara. Before the night was through, nearly 300 were killed, more than a thousand...
Akinci speaks at event to mark first anniversary of attempted coup in Turkey Cyprus

Akinci speaks at event to mark first anniversary of attempted coup in Turkey

July 15th, 2017 Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said a coup attempt in Turkey exactly one year ago had been thwarted by the courage of the Turkish people who took to the streets answering the call of President Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking at an event to mark the anniversary of the attempt, Akinci said democracy and law were the greatest force...
Cyprus marks coup anniversary (Update 2) Cyprus

Cyprus marks coup anniversary (Update 2)

July 15th, 2017 Air raid sirens sounded at 8.20am on Saturday, marking the anniversary of the beginning of the coup on July 15, 1974 to overthrow president Makarios. A church service for those killed during the coup was held in the morning at Saint Constantinos and Eleni Church in Nicosia, attended by President Nicos Anastasiades and other...
Greek coup and invasion archives delivered Cyprus

Greek coup and invasion archives delivered

July 14th, 2017 The delivery of the findings of an inquiry into the 1974 coup to overthrow president Makarios and the ensuing Turkish invasion is not just boxes with testimonies but memories, tears, pain and unvindicated sacrifice, the head of Greek Parliament, Nikos Voutsis said on Friday. In a special ceremony held in the Cypriot parliament,...
Wailing sirens to mark coup, invasion Cyprus

Wailing sirens to mark coup, invasion

July 12th, 2017 Air raid sirens will be sounding on Saturday and next Thursday to mark the 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of the island, the civil defence said. The sirens will sound across the republic – at 8.20am, the time the coup started, on July 15, and 5.30am on July 20.
Two arrested in north as part of Gulen probe Cyprus

Two arrested in north as part of Gulen probe

June 22nd, 2017 Authorities in the north have arrested two men as part of a police operation to track down persons with ties to Fetullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric believed to be behind last year’s attempted coup in the neighbouring country. The detained men were named as Osman Adsiz and Selcuk Genc. Turkish Cypriot media reported that...
Turkey has removed 'over 4,000 judges, prosecutors after coup' Turkey

Turkey has removed 'over 4,000 judges, prosecutors after coup'

May 26th, 2017 Turkey has removed more than 4,000 judges and prosecutors on suspicion of links to last year's failed coup, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Friday. In a speech in Ankara, Bozdag said the judiciary had been cleared of supporters of the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the July 15 attempted...
The black anniversary we should mark Opinion

The black anniversary we should mark

April 23rd, 2017 By George Koumoullis Fifty years after the military seized power in Greece, Cyprus should acknowledge its guilt FIFTY years ago, on April 21, 1967, a group of army officers terminated democracy in Greece and imposed a brutal dictatorship, which collapsed like a tower of cards when Turkey invaded Cyprus seven years later. The...
Some 200 police officers being investigated in the north for Gulen ties Cyprus

Some 200 police officers being investigated in the north for Gulen ties

April 14th, 2017 Some 200 policemen in the north were being investigated in connection with potential links to Fetullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric believed to be behind last year’s attempted coup in the neighbouring country, daily Kibris reported on Friday. During the investigation, which began two weeks ago, police personnel were asked...
Kremlin denies plotting coup, assassination in Montenegro Russia

Kremlin denies plotting coup, assassination in Montenegro

February 20th, 2017 The Kremlin on Monday rejected "irresponsible" allegations by Montenegro that Russia was involved in a plot to assassinate its prime minister. Montenegrin Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic on Sunday accused Moscow of involvement in the alleged conspiracy last October, which he said was aimed at bringing an opposition figure to power...
Turkey targets foster families in post-coup crackdown - official Turkey

Turkey targets foster families in post-coup crackdown - official

November 28th, 2016 Turkish authorities are investigating foster families for suspected ties to a failed coup and may remove children from homes if their guardians are found to be supporters of the putsch, a government official said on Monday. The government has so far detained or dismissed 125,000 people over alleged links to the network of Fethullah...
From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid Turkey

From soldiers to midwives, Turkey dismisses 15,000 more after coup bid

November 22nd, 2016 Turkey on Tuesday dismissed 15,000 more officials, from soldiers and police officers to tax inspectors and midwives, and shut 375 institutions and news outlets, deepening purges condemned by Western allies and rights groups after a failed coup. The latest dismissals, announced in two decrees, bring to more than 125,000 the number of...
Some Turkish military officers at Nato seeking asylum - alliance chief Turkey

Some Turkish military officers at Nato seeking asylum - alliance chief

November 18th, 2016 Some Turkish military officers posted to Nato in Europe have requested asylum since the abortive coup in Turkey in July, alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday. Reuters exclusively reported in October that Turkish authorities had dismissed hundreds of senior military staff serving with Nato in Europe and the United...
Pressure growing in EU to halt Turkish membership talks but no decision yet World

Pressure growing in EU to halt Turkish membership talks but no decision yet

November 11th, 2016 European Union foreign ministers will on Monday consider shelving membership talks with Turkey over what they see as its disturbing lurch away from democracy after a botched coup there, though there is no consensus for such a tough step yet. Despite EU alarm at the scale of Ankara's post-coup security crackdown, EU diplomats say they...
Kazakh beer tycoon jailed for 21 years on coup-plotting charges Business

Kazakh beer tycoon jailed for 21 years on coup-plotting charges

November 7th, 2016 By Raushan Nurshayeva A Kazakh businessman was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday on charges including plotting a coup against veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Tokhtar Tuleshov, best known for running Shymkentpivo, one of the former Soviet republic’s largest breweries, was subjected to a closed trial before a...
Turkey sacks more than 10,000 civil servants over links with failed coup (Updated) World

Turkey sacks more than 10,000 civil servants over links with failed coup (Updated)

October 30th, 2016 Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July. Thousands of academics, teachers and health workers were among those removed through a new emergency rule decree published on the Official...
Turkey pulls plug on 20 radio, TV channels in post-coup emergency decree World

Turkey pulls plug on 20 radio, TV channels in post-coup emergency decree

September 30th, 2016 Turkey has ordered the closure of 20 television and radio stations, including one that airs children's programmes, on charges they spread "terrorist propaganda", adding to fears that emergency rule is being used to stifle the media. President Tayyip Erdogan has said he wants a three-month state of emergency, imposed after a failed...
Page 1 of 41234
© Cyprus Mail Ltd. 2017. All rights reserved.
A Cyprus Mail Company Ltd. Site

By continuing to use the Cyprus Mail, you agree to the use of cookies. more information

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.

Close