Turkey Purge

An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking three consecutive life sentences for 150 military officers at the Land Forces Command over their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The officers are accused of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, being members of an armed terror […]

A crowd attacked a building belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), party officials said Wednesday. Pictures from the scene appeared to show the HDP building in Denizli vandalized and racist, sexist graffiti drawn on walls. The mob also stole TL 300 and 2 laptops from the building. This is not the first time

Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist Orhan Kemal Cengiz is facing consecutive life sentence on coup charges along with 29 other Zaman daily journalists and executives, although he was not a columnist for Zaman, news website Aktifhaber reported on Wednesday. According to the report, despite the fact that the headlines of articles of columnists

An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three consecutive life sentences for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman daily on coup charges. The Zaman daily, which was affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement, was first seized by the Turkish government in March 2016 and the closed down by a

Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, was detained during a security check in the southern province of Hatay on Tuesday. The reason for the detention of the 35-year-old journalist was not immediately clear. Italian authorities have reportedly taken action to secure the release of the journalist who travelled to

A Turkish citizen in the Netherlands casted his/her vote for Turkey’s referendum with an attached note saying that he got sacked as a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy of hatred. Ballot boxes at Turkish embassies are now open for voting of those living abroad while citizens in Turkey are set to cast their