Turkey Purge

Izmir-based Ege University was revealed to be discriminating against those who were dismissed from their jobs as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup. The university’s Graduate School of Social Sciences announced on its website that those removed from the job are not allowed to […]

Former Bugün columnist and Zaman daily reporter Zafer Özcan was arrested on Thursday in the western province of Manisa over links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Özcan, who has lived in his hometown of Akhisar since the closure by the government of Bugün in February 2016, was detained on a warrant and subsequently arrested by

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday filed a legal complaint against Meral Akşener, chairman of the opposition İyi (Good) Party, for allegedly insulting him, Turkish news outlets reported. Erdoğan filed the complaint due to Akşener’s remarks at a rally in Denizli in the run-up to local elections on March 31. According to Erdoğan lawyer Hüseyin

Istanbul police fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse thousands of women who tried to march along the city’s main pedestrian avenue to mark International Women’s Day on Friday evening. Thousands of women gathered near İstiklal Street in İstanbul’s famed Taksim neighborhood for a march that police said was unauthorized. The march, named “March

Semra Turan, a reporter for the Mezopotamya news agency, was taken into custody in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Wednesday, the agency reported. Turan was detained during a police raid on his house in the early hours of Wednesday. The reporter was taken to the Tunceli Police Department, although authorities did not issue

Hakan Sukur’s father in law Mustafa Sertbas has been detained over a power of attorney the former football star issued for him, media said Monday. Sertbas was caught when a notary public in Istanbul’s Beyoglu where he had planned to get the power of attorney reported him to the police. The father-in-law faces 7.5 years

Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) Chairman Muhiddin Gülal said Monday 932 companies that were earlier confiscated over Gulen links are now under TMSF’s control. Gulal said the companies are valued at TL 21.2 billion ($3.9 billion) and have TL 57.9 billion ($10.8 billion) in assets. The number of confiscated companies was 1,032, according

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has paid more than 19 million Turkish lira to 249 people who provided information leading to the arrest or were instrumental in the death of supporters of the faith-based Gülen movement, a pro-government newspaper reported on Tuesday. A report by Burak Doğan in Yeni Şafak stated that the program is titled “Homeland