Turkey Purge

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 151 people have been detained over the past week on charges of disseminating propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched into 2,697

17 suspects, including Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November 2016, are ready to appear before an Istanbul court on Monday for the first time in an investigation into the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. An

Turkish police on Sunday detained 47 people including 22 women in Ankara protesting the arrest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators who have been on a hunger strike for 137 days, Cumhuriyet reported. A video shows police breaking the arm of one protester while trying to take him into custody along with

A total of 831 people were taken into custody in the past week as part of investigations against followers of the Gülen group, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch,

Samsun police detained a man for wearing a Batman-themed hero T-shirt, Turkish journalist Can Ertuna tweeted on Sunday. He also claimed that the man was questioned by anti-terror police for three hours. The hero T-shirts have become a contentious issue when Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President

Bergül Varan, a memner of lesftist band Grup Yorum and whose hair was ripped out from her scalp by Turkish police on June 7, was arrested on Saturday after she was detained on Friday. According to reports in Turkish media, Varan was detained again along with Akif Uzun an actor in İdil Public Theatre as she was

130 generals and admirals in Turkish military were either dismissed or suspended as part of a widespread purge following a failed coup attempt in July last year. According to a story in state-run Anadolu news agency on Sunday, NATO’s second largest standing military force has now 196 generals and admirals which had 326 in July 2016. The

Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, popularly known as “Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca” (Robed Ahmet Hoca), a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), on Saturday launched prayer sessions among his group in order to curse and demand the death of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by