Turkey Purge

29-year-old Kutahya man, identified as H.T. who had had an arrest warrant issue against him over Gulen links, was caught using fake ID to survive Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt against the movement. The government accuses the Gulen movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup attempt and has detained more than 120,000 people over alleged

Officials from several Turkish institutions were actively involved in the forced return of Malaysian-based Gulen followers last week, according to the Anadolu news agency (AA). Three Turkish nationals — Turgay Karaman, İhsan Aslan and İsmet Özçelik — were detained by Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur and deported to Turkey on May 11. The trio was

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 25 people, 22 of whom are lawyers and three of whom are staff at the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The detention warrants were issued by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, and 13 of the individuals

The 26-year-old New Jersey student, Ceren Borazan said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail squeezed her neck before threating to kill her during a protest outside Turkish embassy residence in DC on Tuesday. Borazan told BuzzFeed News that one of Erdoğan’s guards threatened her by saying: “I’m going to kill you, you’re dead, you are gone.” He

An Ankara court on Wednesday accepted an indictment against Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci, who was arrested in August 2016 over his alleged links with the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish authorities of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The indictment drafted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and seeks a consecutive

An Ankara court sent to jail 4 out of 16 Turkish nationals who were deported back to home from Saudi Arabia as part of Turkey’s ever-growing crackdown against the Gülen movement that that has spread to overseas in the recent past. Sixteen Turkish nationals in several Saudi cities were detained on March 15 and were

At least 46 people were detained in Manisa province as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement, on early Wednesday. Accused of using ByLock smartphone application, the detainees included many public servants. ByLock is considered by Turkish authorities to be the top communication tool among followers of the Gülen movement, which is accused by