Turkey Purge

Turkey’s media monitoring institution, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has decided to shut down Yol TV for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The RTÜK officials made the decision on Wednesday after the TV station refused to be intimidated by a warning statement. RTÜK, which is composed of members in proportion with the

Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy chairman and spokesperson Yasin Aktay has said the Turkish nation finds some comfort in the arrest of more than a dozen deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the wake of deadly terror attacks in the country. This month, Turkey was shaken by two attacks in İstanbul

Turkey has since beginning of this year paid a total of TL 2.4 million in rewards to citizens who have provided the state with useful information about others who are suspected of having committed a crime, according to figures from the Finance Ministry. The government paid nothing in January; TL 50,000 in February; TL 56,000

The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, Zühtü Arslan, has said justice does not necessarily require that everyone in society be treated equally in every situation. Speaking at a conference at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara on Monday, Arslan said: “Justice does not call for everyone to be treated equally in every situation. To the

A total of 236 out of 530 military officers for whom detention warrants were issued last week across 58 provinces for their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock have been detained. The İstanbul 11th Penal Court of Peace last week issued detention warrants for 280 military officers and 250 noncommissioned officers as

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as the parliamentary speaker İsmail Kahraman expressed their support to any government plan to reintroduce the death penalty, on Tuesday. “We don’t want dogs in the Parliament, we want death penalty,” people chanted slogans during Erdoğan’s speech at a ceremony to inaugurate the newly-constructed Eurasia Tunnel, that connects Istanbul’s

A group of protesters in Konya’s Ereğli district placed a huge Turkish flag over the walls of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office, chanting religious slogans, on Sunday. Protesters used a cherry-picker to reach out to HDP’s Ereğli office at the third floor of a building and hung a giant Turkish flag that covered