Turkey Purge

A total of eighty-four high-ranking military officers have been arrested by a court on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. According to the Anadolu News Agency, the İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s office had previously launched an investigation into a total of […]

A total of 38 police officers were detained in Kars province on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the İhlas news agency has reported. Police officers are detained on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities believe is a communication tool between members of the Gülen movement. Turkey survived a

A former police chief who served as security manager for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister has been arrested in Antalya over his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Maksut Karal is being charged with membership in a terrorist organization and involvement in activities on behalf of a terrorist organization. Karal

The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city for a period of one month due to security concerns. A statement released by the governor’s office on Tuesday said intelligence had been received suggesting that some terrorist organizations were planning attacks in the Turkish capital.

Two more members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri, were arrested in İstanbul on Tuesday, with Bekir Boydak jailed and his nephew, Mahmut Sami, put under house arrest, on charges of financing terrorism. A senior family figure had reported their detention earlier on Tuesday as part of an

Hürriyet, the flagship newspaper of the Doğan Media Group, on Tuesday replaced its Washington, D.C., representative, Tolga Tanış, who came under fire by pro-government circles after his reporting on Turkey’s alleged raw materials supply to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Tanış, who has been the Washington representative of the paper for

Turkish authorities have begun to seal off the buildings of associations and foundations that were closed down by a recent government decree after prosecutors claimed that they were linked to terrorist organizations or groups deemed to be acting against “national interests.” On Monday, a group of police officers sealed off the building of the Democratic

Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu and 10 years in prison for Cumhuriyet daily’s former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the daily’s Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül over a report on National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks. The indictment prepared by public prosecutor Mehmet Yeşilkaya, which was made public on Jan. 11, seeks the sentences for “aiding an

Twenty-six teachers have been arrested in Turkey’s Malatya province as part of an investigation into the followers of the Gülen movement. The teachers were earlier accused of using ByLock mobile application, which the prosecutors claim a primary communication tool among sympathizers of the movement. Police carried out operations and detained 34 teachers in 8 provinces

E.D., who was detained in İzmir for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, was arrested by an İzmir court on Monday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. E.D. was detained at home in a police raid following a denunciation of his “insults.” On Saturday, K.D., who works for a private company