Sentences with phrase «failed coup»

Last week's failed coup attempt in Turkey lasted just a day, but the pain has only begun for Turkish academics.

As the the papers conduct a post mortem on Wednesday's failed coup against Gordon Brown, there is general agreement that David Miliband is the biggest long - term loser from the debacle.

««Serial bottler» David Miliband's Labour leadership hopes in tatters after dithering during failed coup Main The public are divided as to whether ditching Brown would help Labour - but the vast majority agree there is no obvious successor anyway»

According to the BBC at least 2,745 judges have been dismissed in Turkey, following the recent failed coup d'état attempt.

So far they include some of the usual suspects such as failed coup leader Grant Shapps, sacked minister Ed Vaizey and outspoken health select committee chair Sarah Wollaston.

We've expanded our playing field to include failed coups, rebellions, minor insurrections, guerrilla leaders, and the acronyms of as many rebel groups as we can find — the SPLA, TPLF, LRA, UNITA — anyone who has picked up a gun in the name of revolution.

Rep. Brian Higgins backed former Assemblyman Mike Bragman's failed coup attempt against Silver back in 2000 when he was serving in Albany.

And as Turkey continues to takes steps toward increasingly illiberal democracy, a big winner of the failed coup is Russian President Vladimir Putin.

With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created «a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse».

The emergency state was implemented following a failed coup last weekend during which over 250 were killed.

Since the failed coup in July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cracked down on the judiciary, academic, bureaucratic, and media sectors.

Those efforts intensified following a failed coup attempt in July of last year.

There has been growing tension between the two NATO allies after repeated calls from Turkey to extradite U.S. - based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for a failed coup in July.

Erdoğan also blames Gülen for the failed coup in Turkey last summer — a charge that the German foreign intelligence agency just publicly refuted.

Turkey suspects the U.S. of having helped to plan the failed coup of President Erdogan in 2016 and claims it is now protecting Turks who were involved; The U.S. says Turkey has flouted due process in its arrest of the embassy worker and that there is no evidence of U.S. involvement in the coup.

There, authorities are desperate to boost a sector key to the economy that slumped due to a failed coup d'etat and attacks in 2016, when tourism revenue fell almost 30 percent.

Turkey's relationship with Moscow deteriorated after a Russian warplane was shot down when it entered into Turkish airspace; there was a failed coup last July to bring down President Erdogan; as well as «an acceleration in the intensity of terror acts» on Turkish soil, Mitov said.

EU lawmakers called on Thursday for a temporary halt to Turkey's accession talks because of what they called Ankara's «disproportionate» reaction to July's failed coup.

A senior Turkish official said Turkish intelligence cracked the app earlier this year and was able to use it to trace tens of thousands of members of a religious movement the government blames for last month's failed coup.

Ankara and Moscow have moved steadily towards each other since the failed coup in Turkey in July 2016.

The arrest of a Turkish national at the U.S. consulate follows the incarceration and detention of tens of thousands of suspected dissidents that Erdogan has ordered in Turkey following a failed coup attempt last year which has links to a U.S. - based cleric Fethullah Gueln.

Brunson was jailed in December 2016 over alleged ties with the Fetullah Gulen movement; an organisation authorities believe was connected with a failed coup in Turkey the summer before.

He has insisted upon his innocence after two pro-Government Turkish newspapers published articles linking him to the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen who Ankara suspects of organising a failed coup in July 2016.

A letter demanding the release of an American pastor on trial in Turkey over alleged links to a failed coup has been signed by two - thirds of US senators.

The 50 - year - old is on trial in the Mediterranean city of Izmir, accused of links to two organisations which Ankara blames for a failed coup in Turkey almost two years ago.

An American pastor accused of being linked to the failed coup in Turkey last year has written a song during his imprisonment.

An American pastor has broken down during an emotional court appearance when he denied alleged links to a failed coup in the country.

In the year before the failed coup, Pew said that Turkey's government restrictions against religion had «experienced a modest decrease.»

The current treatment of American evangelicals in the wake of the failed coup is seen as retaliation, according to Armenian members of Turkey's parliament.

As Turkey continues to crack down on dissent in the wake of a failed coup, two longtime American Christian expats are struggling to stay in the Muslim - majority nation they have long served.

Since the failed coup, Turkey has gone after several groups in an attempt to prosecute those who support the Gülen movement.

An American pastor accused of being linked to the failed coup in Turkey last year has written a song... More

Comparing the Soviet Union with Major League Baseball might be overly glib, but maybe this failed coup by the PRC will lead to the end of the game's feudalism.

Mehmet Kanter, a retired professor of medicine, was one of 13 suspects taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Hizmet, a group the Turkish government believes was responsible for a failed coup two years ago.

Higgins also once spoke out against Silver, and even backed former CNY Assemblyman Mike Bragman in his failed coup against the speaker.

Kolb noted that it was unrest among the rank - and - file that led to a failed coup attempt on Silver by former Syracuse - area Assemblyman Michael Bragman in 2000 — the same year Heastie was elected to represent his Bronx district in Albany.

In the aftermath of the failed coup in Turkey nearly 3000 judges were «sacked» among them two members of the constitutional court (source for example this Washington Post article) as well as many...

Considering the huge wave of repression happening in Turkey following the failed coup in summer 2016, and the restriction of civil...

Erdoğan is not Kim Jong - un, but his government in widely seen as as having authoritarian tendencies, especially after the failed coup attempt last year.

Ahidjo is joined by a handful of other Cameroonian political and opposition leaders (note Ahidjo was not traditionally the latter although Biya loyalists attribute him with a failed coup d'etat in 1984)-- Felix Moumie, Ruben Um Nyobe (both were former leaders of the UPC and both were assassinated by the French military) and Ernest Ouandie to name a few — whose histories have been masked by a forceable silence in the public collective memory.

Tens of thousands of Turks have taken to the streets to mark the first anniversary of a failed coup.

With the Turkish diaspora in Germany numbering three million, Germany is concerned about Turkey's domestic political tensions having a spillover effect, particularly as democratic norms continue to deteriorate in the wake of last year's failed coup.

What we know for sure is that the failed coup provided President Erdoğan with an excellent excuse to consolidate his power: despite widespread claims of voter fraud, he secured a narrow victory in an...

Nevertheless, former British foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said Mr Yeltsin succeeded in preventing the Communists regaining control after a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.

The most likely scenario is that Erdogan had those judges in his sights and simply seized the moment when he realized the failed coup gave him carte blanche to take out political opponents because protesting such actions carries a high risk of being associated with the failed coup for a at least a few days.

Considering the huge wave of repression happening in Turkey following the failed coup in summer 2016, and the restriction of civil liberties that goes along with a political climate hostile to democracy, I was expecting its democracy index to drop around ~ 2.0 or 3.0.

Turkey claims Fethullah Gulen orchestrated the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogğan last July — and the government has designated Gulen's movement a terrorist organization.

In 2011, Mr. Ulrich led a failed coup to install former Councilman Tom Ognibene as chair of the party.

Higgins, if you recall, was one of those who hung tough in a failed coup against Silver in 2000.