Turkey Purge

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 […]

Eyüp Sabri Ertekin, former president of the Sanliurfa Chamber of Commerce was sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 15 days in jail over ties to the Gulen movement. Appearing before the court for his final hearing, Ertekin was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terroism charge the Turkish government often uses

Turkey’s Flash TV, one of the leading entertainment-focused TV channels, has stopped broadcasting due to political pressure by the government and economic hardship. Established in 1992, the station is Turkey’s one of the first private television channels. Flash TV is known for its broadcasts of traditional halay dancing and match-making programs. In a written statement

Turkish riot police used force to disperse a group of university students who held a commemoration ceremony for a slain leftist student at İstanbul University’s Beyazıt campus on Friday. According to the artıgercek news portal, riot police intervened with shields and detained seventeen of the attendees. Some students were injured in the fray. Önder Balat,

A total of 486 military members have been fired due to alleged links to the Gülen group since the end of a state of emergency declared after a 2016 coup attempt, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report, 90 members of the land forces, 77 from the naval forces have been relieved

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said during a public rally that if pro-Kurdish candidates “linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),” are elected in the upcoming municipal elections, he will dismiss them and appoint civil servants to run the Kurdish towns in southern Turkey. At a public rally in the central Anatolian town of Yozgat,

A prosecutor in Turkey ordered the detention of 14 teachers after a scheduling conflict over a football field, the Diken news website reported on Thursday. The incident took place in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır where a group of teachers reserved the pitch for the 9 p.m.-10 p.m. time slot, while another group involving the

The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has handed down jail sentences of varying lengths to journalists from the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT)  on charges of “membership in a terrorist group.” According to the https://jailedjournos.com/2019/02/26/trt/, Ahmet Özdemir, Ali Hancı, Ahmet Çat, Beşir Elmas, Abdullah Yeldan, Enes Bora, Evren Kara, Koray Demirci, Selçuk Çelik, Şaban

A former top judge who was jailed as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison. Former Supreme Court of Appeals member Oktay Acu was convicted of membership to the Gulen movement, a broadened terror charge the Turkish government often uses to imprison its