Turkey Purge

Turkish retailer DeFacto has stopped selling T-shirts with the word ‘hero’ after the government detained at least 6 people for wearing such clothing over the past days, media reported. The hero T-shirts became a contentious issue when Gökhan Güçlü, one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on […]

Warrants were issued to detain at least 159 people including 34 from the government-closed media outlets on Friday. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 159 suspects as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt.

Turkey has named 68 companies as supporters of the Gülen movement, in a list sent to Germany’s federal police, according to Die Zeit weekly. The list included a Turkish fast food restaurant and a late-night food store, Die Zeit said. This was sent to German authorities several weeks ago, the newspaper said recalling that President

A Turkish man, identified with initials S.A,. was detained at Turkey’s Ipsala border gate after custom officials noticed his passport was among thousands of others which the government revoked in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. State-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that the government earlier cancelled S.A.’s passport for allegedly

An Ankara court on Tuesday ruled for continuation of the imprisonment of journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, who has been behind bars for more than 11 months. Parıldak, a 27-year-old reporter from the now-closed Zaman daily, appeared in court on Tuesday. Arrested on Aug. 11, 2016 at the Ankara University’s School of Law campus, where she was

Two workers at a Sakarya factory and a waiter in Turkey’s Antalya province were detained for wearing Hero T-shirts on Friday. 29-year-old M.S. put on a Hero T-shirt before going to work at a 5-stor hotel in Antalya’s Serik district on Thursday. Upon complaints from people at the hotel, M.S. was taken under custody. Asked

Turkish government seized at least 2,421 trademarks, 101 designs along with 15 patents from businesses blacklisted over their links to the the Gulen movement, according to Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Ozlu. “Turkish Patent and Trademark Office has handed over 734 trademarks, 72 designs and 15 patents that used to be owned by FETO

A Mersin man, identified as E.A., was detained while he was visiting his relative, also E.A., who has been under arrest over links to the Gülen movement in Tarsus prison, on Wednesday. According to state-run Anadolu Agency, an arrest warrant had been earlier issued against the visitor E.A. on accusation of membership to the movement.

Turkish courts in Muğla and İzmir provinces have detained at least 46 people, including police officers, teachers, shopkeepers over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that a total of thirty-two police officers, who were