Turkey Purge

Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University in the southern Turkish province of Adana, committed suicide on Friday evening in his home after he was fired from his job at the university. Traş was one of the signatories of a peace declaration which in early 2016 called on the government to halt operations […]

A total of twenty-nine businessmen and doctors were detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, Milliyet daily reported on Saturday. Detention warrants were issued for 32 Denizli individuals early on Friday. Hours later, police teams carried out simultaneous operations in the province and detained

A group of poliçe officers in plain clothes detained Mehmet Aydın, the mayor of Mardin’s Savur district from the pro–Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), and then hung a Turkish flag on the facade of the municipal building. Police teams reportedly conducted a search at the municipal building on Friday and seized some documents. Media reports stated that

Abu Hanzala, an alleged ISIL leader who declared a “holy war” against “infidels” in Turkey in 2014, has been revealed as a speaker at an Islamic conference scheduled to take place in the hearth of Turkish Capital of Ankara on February 26. According to the posters hung around the Etimesgut district of Ankara, Hanzala is

Seventeen academics and employees who were earlier dismissed from Erzurum’s Atatürk University were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement on Friday. The detainees include two professors, several assistant professors and research assistants The suspects are accused of using the ByLock smart phone application, which according to prosecutors, is the top communication

Mayor of Ankara Melih Gökçek wrote from his Twitter account on Thursday that regular citizens are armed and that a new coup attempt would be bloody due to the resistance of the people. Responding to a claim in the Islamist Akit daily that 800 soldiers are gearing up for a second coup attempt, Gökçek said

A bus steward working for a local company in Adana province was detained on complaint after he put a scrap newspaper with a picture of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the paper, to dry a wet mat on the bus’ floor. “Do not lay it on the floor. It has the picture of our President,”

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 100 people across 31 provinces that include high-level administrators over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The detention warrants were issued as part of a Konya-based investigation. According to state-run Anadolu News Agency, around 30 people have so far been detained as part of the investigation. Turkey