Turkey Purge

A university student has been sentenced to house arrest for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by retweeting a tweet. According to senfika.org, Kardelen Aritman was detained on Monday by police after she retweeted a tweet that allegedly insulted the president. Later the same day, she appeared in an Adana court, where a judge sentenced […]

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Saturday said 149,833 people have been investigated and 48,636 have been jailed as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen movement since a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. Providing recent figures about a purge that the government has been conducting against Gülen movement sympathizers, Bozdağ said 149,833 people

Turkish authorities have ordered the removal of Arabic signboards in a number of provinces where a large number of Syrian refugees live on the grounds that they cause “visual pollution.” Turkey today is home to 3 million refugees, mostly Syrian. Arabic signboards have so far been removed in Gaziantep’s İslahiye district, Adana province and Hatay’s

At least 34 people have been detained during demonstrations to mark 44th anniversary of Deniz Gezmiş and his friends’ execution by the government on charges of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order in 1972. Three student leaders Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan were hanged at a prison in Ankara’s Ayaş district for attempting

Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Şamil Gülen was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Thursday. 36-year-old nephew was taken into custody in Kocaeli province and taken to neighboring city of Sakarya for interrogation. Şamil is accused of being an “movement imam” for