Turkey Purge

Two out of four local journalists in Turkey’s Gaziantep province who were earlier detained for releasing an interview with jailed businessman Ahmet Selim Ener, were put in pre-trial arrest, on Wednesday. Ener was previously imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup in Turkey

Under arrest for nearly 5 months, retired police chief Ahmet Tatar has passed away after a heart attack in Osmaniye prison. Tatar, retired from his position as the head of the Diyarbakır Regional Police’s traffic division in 2015, suffered a heart attack on Aug 1 and was taken to a Osmaniye Public Hospital where he

Prepare for some serious coffee to be spilled because Turkish activist Barbaros Şansal has a book deal. Back in January, Şansal was beaten up by an angry mob who gathered on an Istanbul airport tarmac and then was put behind bars by an İstanbul court due to a video he posted on New Year’s Eve.

A Şırnak court arrested French journalist Loup Bureau on charges of aiding and supporting a terrorist organization, pro-Kurdish Dihaber reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Bureau was on his way to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq through the Habur border gate after visiting Şırnak province when Turkish police detained him. The court ruled

The Ankara Governor’s Office announced on Tuesday that all protest activities in support of imprisoned hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça has been banned for a period of one month, the Birgün daily reported. According to a statement released by the governor’s office on Wednesday, Turkish intelligence (MIT) “warned” the governor’s office that sit-in

According to data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the number of children who were brought to police stations increased by 10 percent in 2016 over the previous year. Out of 333,435 children who were brought to police stations, 54.8 were between 15-17 years old, 23.2 percent were between 12-14 years old and 21.9 percent

Wardens at İstanbul’s Silivri prison reportedly forced Cihan Acar, a 27-year old journalist who has been behind bars since July 29, 2016, to get a haircut against his will, the Evrensel daily reported on Tuesday. Mustafa Söğütlü, lawyer for the journalist, spoke to Evrensel daily, saying that Acar, who has not shaved for a year