Turkey Purge

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 38 people working for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on allegations that they have links to the Gülen movement. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 which killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately

Emre İper, who works as a finance manager at the Cumhuriyet daily, has been detained over use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. İper was detained in the early hours of Friday following a police raid on his house. ByLock is considered by Turkish authorities to be the top communication tool among followers

The İstanbul Governor’s Office has denied permission to a public rally scheduled to be held by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ahead of an upcoming referendum on a constitutional reform package. Citing that “there are not enough police officers to maintain security” during the planned rally, the governor’s office also stated that another public meeting was

Nismiye Guler and Zeynep Turgut, two reporters for the Diyarbakir-based multilingual online news portal, Gazete Sujin were detained on Thursday. Two reporters were on way to cover an event in Van’s Tatvan district when police rounded them up. Gazete Sujin said it has yet to locate the police station the two are being kept. Turkey

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against a group of lawyers protesting against the arrest of attorneys representing the Cumhuriyet daily, one of Turkey’s oldest and secular newspaper with a critical stance. In the 45-second video, viewed hundreds of times on Twitter, at least 10 lawyers were dragged by