Turkey Purge

A total of 1,734 people have been arrested since a failed coup attempt on July 15 while 18,194 others are on a detention list on charges of disseminating terror propaganda from their social media accounts, according to a report by the Anadolu news agency on Thursday. Cyber crime police units which examine social media accounts […]

A Turkish court ruled for the arrest of 9 engineers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK), Sözcü daily reported on Thursday. Early on Feb. 16, police teams carried out simultaneous operations in Kocaeli, İstanbul and Ankara province, and detained 24 engineers as part of an investigation launched by a Kocaeli prosecutor.

A popular Twitter user with the user name “bıbıcımsıfırladım” was identified and detained in İstanbul on Wednesday for posting tweets that praise the Gulen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a detention warrant for the Twitter user, “bıbıcımsıfırladım,” who

At least 127,000 public servants have been dismissed from state bodies, while around 146,000 have been investigated either over alleged involvement in a coup attempt on July 15, or having links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the attempted coup. According to the pro-government daily Sabah, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip

A total of 21 businessmen were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, the pro-gov’t daily Sabah reported on Tuesday. Detention warrants were issued for 24 people who are alleged to have ties with Antalya-based business associations that had

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) stripped Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ of her parliamentary status on Tuesday. Yüksekdağ has been in jail for almost three months over alleged links to a terrorist organization.  

A Turkish court ruled for the arrest of a total of 22 police officers on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the pro-gov’t Sabah daily has reported. According to the report, 23 police officers were detained on Feb. 16 in simultaneous raids across Çankırı. Of those, 22 were sent to jail on early