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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked U.S. officials in New York why a Turkish citizen with Iranian origins, businessman Reza Zarrab, was under arrest.

He said, "As a matter of fact, because he is our citizen, we have to look into his rights. This could have been not Reza Zarrab, but another citizen." 

About 40 prominent academics and authors from around the world are urging Turkey's government to end what they say is the persecution of the country's own writers and professors voicing a differing point of view.

A recent report prepared by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on its deputies' observations on inmates in Turkish prisons has highlighted mistreatment during their time behind the bars, while also serving as means for the interviewed prisoners to convey their belief that they had been subjected to mischarges with mounting probes into both Gülenists and the outlawed Kurdistan W