Turkey Purge

Semire Nergiz and Ferhat Kut, co-mayors of a Kurdish-majority town Nusaybin, have been put in pre-trial detention by a Turkish court on terror accusations, the Etha reported.   Turkey has launched a crackdown against dissent in its Kurdish-majority areas following its assault against Kurdish-controlled parts of neighboring Syria. Protests have been broken up with tear gas, […]

The Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh attempted to deceive Cambodian authorities to extradite Osman Karaca, a Mexican citizen of Turkish origin, due to his alleged ties to the Gülen group, the Nordic Monitor news website reported. The Turkish government accuses the Gülen group of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt. The latter denies any involvement. To

Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and TV pundit who was released pending trial on Friday, was detained again on early on Saturday morning, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Avcı was initially detained on Sept. 18, 2015 as part of an investigation into a group of police officers and journalists who were accused of

Three unidentified men attempted to abduct a Turkish teacher in Ankara as he was about to get into his car. The gunmen fled after the victim started shouting and managed to attract a small crowd, according to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy. Hayrullah Narin is a public

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of at least 152 people in a massive post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, the Turkish Minute news portal reported. Turkey accuses the movement of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt, although it denies any involvement. Since the failed coup some 600,000 people have been investigated on

Selim Buğrahan, a 87-year old Kurdish man who has been senenced to 5 years in prison on terror charges, died in a prison in Turkey’s Maraş province, according to pro-Kurdish HDP Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu. A Twitter account that claims to be a close relative of Mr. Buğrahan, claimed last week that the victim had several