Turkey Purge

The İstanbul 15th High Criminal Court  on Monday rejected an objection to arrest of jailed main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu. Berberoğlu was arrested last Wednesday immediately after he was handed down a prison sentence of 25 years for leaking information for a report on National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks transporting weapons to

Four people have been detained in the Keşan district of Edirne province while attempting to flee to Greece in a bid to escape a post-coup witch-hunt currently ongoing in Turkey, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday. According to the report, a surgeon, Mehmet Ali Yılmaz (34), and a physician, Meryem Dağdelen (31), who were both

An İstanbul court has ruled for the arrest of 31 more lawyers as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, the pro-gov’t Karar daily reported on Monday. Last week, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 78 lawyers over their alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, which

The 24-year-old lieutenant Y.G. was taken under custody when the navy ship he had been ordered to serve at was docked at a naval base for bunkering, on June 14. Charged as part of a Bursa-based investigation into the Gulen movement, Y.G. was detained after his ship was docked at Aksaz naval base in Mugla