Turkey Purge

Six students from Aydın Anadolu İmam Hatip High School were released on Monday following a brief detention over dancing to Kurdish music. According Doğan news agency, 14-year-old Y.B. and his five friends were detained after the school administration submitted a complaint against the students for dancing to Kurdish music during the class. Their teacher in […]

A total of twenty-two businessmen and shopkeepers were detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, the CNN Turk reported on Tuesday. Detention warrants were issued for 26 Bandırma individuals early on Tuesday. Hours later, police teams carried out simultaneous operations in the district and

Turkish pianist Dengin Ceyhan was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in social media posts. He had been in detention since Feb. 14. Known for his criticism of the government, Ceyhan played the piano during the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and supported academics who had signed a peace petition. However,

Turkish digital platform Digitürk has removed the movie “No,” which tells the story of a plebiscite in Chile in 1988 on the removal of dictator Augusto Pinochet, from its lineup as Turkey campaigns for votes in an April 16 referendum on constitutional amendments that will open the way to a switch from a parliamentary system

The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) dismissed 227 judges and prosecutors from their over their alleged links to the Gülen movement Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding of the July 15 coup attempt. Some 4,000 judges and prosecutors have lost their jobs while many of them have been arrested since July 15.      

Samet Sarı, a university student and member of the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) youth branch, was arrested on Monday on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The İstanbul 5th Penal Court of Peace was not convinced by Sarı’s testimony that the Twitter account which is subject to insult charges does not belong

The newly appointed administration of Turkey’s largest Kurdish city, Diyarbakır dismissed 37 teachers and employees at Zarokistan kindergarten. Diyarbakır is among the tens of municipalities the government has seized as part of its crackdown against Kurdish population in recent months. Trustees have been appointed to dozens of municipalities while hundreds of local Kurdish politicians have

At least seventeen already-purged teachers, businessmen and housewives were detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, the TRT Haber news portal reported on Sunday. Detention warrants were issued for at least 25 individuals early on Feb 16. Hours later, police teams carried out simultaneous