Turkey Purge

The chairman of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Sunday that a civilian coup took place in Turkey on July 20, 2016 with the declaration of state of emergency (OHAL) in the country. Talking to fellow party members in Ankara, Kılıçdaroğlu stated that he already called the failed coup attempt of […]

German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel, who was detained in Turkey on Feb. 14 as part of an investigation for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, was arrested by a court on Monday, Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Bariş Yarkadaş reported on

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 101 individuals including courthouse employees in İzmir, Manisa, Konya and Kütahya provinces, media reports said on Thursday. Seventy-six of these people have already been detained, according the reports. The İzmir-based operation targeted mostly courthouse employees in the four provinces who have alleged links to

At least 25 teachers who were earlier dismissed from their jobs were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Sunday. Detention warrants were issued for 31 teachers in four Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Mersin and Adıyaman provinces while police have yet to locate the remaining 6. Meanwhile, 6 teachers were arrested as part

At least 97 people have been detained over the past 4 months while they were attempting to escape from Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt to Georgia, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Thousands of people have fled Turkey due to a massive witch-hunt launched by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government against the country’s dissidents and

Co-founder and former chairman of Turkey’s prominent Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) Nasuh Mahruki is facing a jail term of one to four years on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor against Mahruki accuses Mahruki of committing the alleged insult during a TV program last October. The

Turkish actors Kayhan Yıldızoğlu and Tuba Ünsal was denied permission to make a drama-related speech at a local high school in Bartın province as the city’s national education director feared they would make propaganda on behalf of the “No” front before the presidential referendum. “We performed before a fantastic audience in Bartın. I would like

Turkey has revised its regulation to transfers the convicts with ‘lighter’ jail sentences to open prisons in order to make room for post-coup detainees. According to the new regulation, published in the Official Gazette on. 23, prisoners sentenced up to 10 years in jail would be reassigned from closed prisons to more comfortable open prisons.

The twin sister of 23-year-old Seda Kaya who was arrested over terror charges in July 2, last year, says she has been feeling the pain Kaya suffers as part of torture in prison. “My love is in there. People would say that twins feel each other’s pain but I wouldn’t believe. Now I also feel