Turkey Purge

Twelve teachers were detained in a Malatya-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Tuesday morning. Police carried out operations in Malatya and Adiyaman provinces, and detained 14 suspects. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the detainees included those who were earlier dismissed from

Turkish prosecutors, on Tuesday, issued detention warrants for 47 people working at Turkey’s education and energy ministries over alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. Thirty of the individuals work for the Education Ministry, while 17 work at the Transportation

The Evrensel daily’s managing editor Çağrı Sarı and former license owner Arif Koşar have been given suspended five-month sentences on charges related to Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). Article 301 criminalizes denigration of the Turkish nation, the Turkish state, the Turkish Parliament, the government of the Republic of Turkey and the legal

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has released the list of 130 people who are currently abroad including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and two deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who will be stripped of citizenship if they do not return to the country within three months. The list was published in the Monday version of

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that at least 81 people were detained over the past week on charges of making propaganda on social media on behalf of the Gulen movement and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL). The ministry said investigations were launched against 395