Turkey Purge

The Ankara Governor’s Office has prohibited the lighting of fires and signing of songs in street protests after sunset in Turkey’s capital city. A statement posted on the website of the governor’s office on Friday said protestors have been lighting fires and singing songs in the streets of Ankara until late hours and that this […]

At least 43 more companies were seized over coup charges between Apr 1 and May 24, bringing the total number of companies under the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund’s (TMSF) control to 922. The companies in question were targeted as part of a sweeping state crackdown against the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of

Mediha Olgun, opposition Sözcü daily’s online editor and Gökmen Ulu, the newspaper’s Izmir reporter were arrested over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants last week for Sözcü’s license holder Burak Akbay, finance manager Yonca Yücekaleli, Olgun, and Ulu. With Akbay currently in exile, an Istanbul

76-year-old Abdullah Nefes and 73-year-old Selah Özakın, the two veteran Turkish poets are set to kick off a hunger strike on May 29, protesting the recent arrests of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakaça, two dismissed educators who were imprisoned on the 76th day of their own hunger strike this week. Gülmen was fired from Konya

Two doctors, a nurse and a former public servant were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison each on accusation of membership to Gulen movement, on Wednesday. Turkish authorities accuse the movement of masterminding the July 15ö 2016 coup attempt and calls it a terrorist organization. The movement denies any involvement. Doctors H.K.

Fourteen teachers were detained in a Manisa-based investigation into the Gulen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, on Thursday morning. According to state-run Anadolu news agency, the detainees included those who were earlier dismissed from their jobs under post-coup emergency rule. Meanwhile, 9 teachers were put in pre-trial