Turkey Purge

Under arrest as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, Prof. Dr. Ugur Camci said his imprisonment would be a loss for universal science, media reported on Tuesday. Camci’s request for acquittal was denied by the court overseeing his case. A mathematical physics professor at Antalya’s Akdeniz University until he was dismissed

Turkish police have seized 4,806 passports and detained 132 people at İstanbul Atatürk Airport as part of investigations into alleged followers of the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of organizing a failed coup attempt last July, the pro-government Sabah daily reported on Monday. According to the report, additional measures were taken

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat was sent to prison late on Monday due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to several tweets posted by a friend of the disabled journalist, when Arat learned that a prison sentence

Meliksah Kultur, a 41-year-old former police officer who was dismissed as part of an administrative investigation launched against him, was found dead at an apartment in the central Anatolian province of Konya on July 7. Kultur reported told one of his friends that he was not doing well and that he needed to rest his