Turkey Purge

Police in Eskisehir rounded up a passerby, identified as C.B. in Ismet Inonu Street after an anonymous tip reported that he was wearing “hero” T-shirt, on Saturday. The hero T-shirts have become a contentious issue when Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 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

İstanbul’s Adalar Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for four human rights defenders who were released on judicial probation on Tuesday after they were detained along with six others on July 5 during a workshop on İstanbul’s Büyükada, the pro-government Sabah daily reported. According to the report, detention warrants were issued for Nalan Erkem,

Turkish police detained a law student at Ankara University, identified with his first name Dogan, for wearing “hero” T-shirt during an exam on Friday. According to Ihlas News Agency, Dogan put on a T-Shirt bearing the word “hero” on him before taking an exam as part of his commercial law course on Friday. The exam

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used water cannons to disperse scores of Kurdish protestors while performing a Friday prayer on June 21 in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari province. Amed Dicle, a pro-Kurdish journalist, posted the 1.50-min video on Twitter with a note that read: “Here is the Yüksekova district of Palestine

Nalan Ekrem, a lawyer and a rights activist with the Citizens Assembly and İlknur Üstün of Women’s Coalition were detained only 4 days after she was released on judicial control, on Saturday. An Istanbul court, on Tuesday, put in pre-trial arrest six human rights activists including Amnesty International’s (AI) Turkey director Idil Eser while releasing

The upcoming arts festival in Ovacik district in Turkey’s Tunceli province has been banned under post-coup emergency rule. Ovacik is the only district in Turkey where the mayor was elected under the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) ticket. “Hello friends, the 1st International Ovacik Arts Days, which we have been working for long to organize was

Ç.G. (22) and E.E. (22), a young couple from Akdeniz University, were detained on Saturday after Antalya police were informed that they were wearing hero T-shirts, CNN Türk reported. The police apprehended the two by tracking them on the city’s surveillance camera system. The students said they did not know wearing the T-shirt was prohibited.