Turkey Purge

Turkey has demanded the extradition of a total of 84 people from the US over their alleged links to the Gülen group, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov 20. Speaking to press following a meeting with his counterpart Mike Pompeo, Çavuşoğlu said he handed over a list of 84 Gulenists to Pompeo and the National Security Adviser John Bolton. […]

A woman in İzmir reported her husband to Turkish authorites six months ago, accusing him of being a Gülenist after he asked her for a divorce, resulting in his arrest and pretrial detention, Sputnik Türkiye reported. Gülcan A. planted books by Fethullah Gülen, magazines linked to the Gülen movement and a one dollar bill in

The people affiliated with the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) has been put in pre-trial detention on terror charges, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. SGDF is known to be a youth branch of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), which is a Marxist-Leninist political party that defines itself as “a revolutionary socialist party fighting for

The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the US in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing two senior US officials and two other people briefed on the requests. Trump administration officials last month

At total of 217,971 people in Turkey have been detained over their links to the Gulen movement so far, Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Thursday. “62,730 (police) operations have been made against Gulenists as of today. …As a result of these operations, 217,971 people were detained,” Soylu told Parliament. He also added 16,684 people

Ayşe Şeyma Taş, a Turkish woman who gave birth 25 days ago at a Sakarya hospital, was put in pre-trail detention with her new-born baby on Sunday over her alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. The movement denies any involvement. According to a tweet by Ömer Faruk

Ferhat Sarıkaya, a public prosecutor who was recently fired from his job by a decree by the Turkish government, was put in pre trial detention on Thursday on charges of membership in the Gülen group. Mr. Sarıkaya was disbarred by Turkey’s Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) last Thursday and was detained the following day

Twenty-four workers who were detained along with hundreds of others on Saturday for protesting labor conditions at İstanbul’s new airport were put in pre-trial detention by a court on Wednesday, Reuters reported. According to the report, 19 other workers were released on judicial probation by the Istanbul court. Workers were accused by the prosecutor of

At least six people were put in pre-trial detention after being detained during police raids in Istanbul last week. Police raided several locations in Istanbul between Sept 6-7 to round up the suspects. Accused of having ties to the Gulen movement, the arrestees include one teacher as well as the General Secretary of the now-closed