Turkey Purge

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 352 people were arrested, while 968 others were detained over the past 7 days, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at […]

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that a total of 924 people have been detained in operations targeting alleged supporters of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since twin bomb blasts in İstanbul on Dec. 10. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that the detainees are being accused of aiding and abetting the PKK.

Detained as part of an investigation into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), F.D. was stripped of her headscarf and is not allowed to pray in the holding cell at Istanbul’s Vatan Police Station, a lawyer representing her told ETHA news agency. “My client F.D. had her husband and 17-year-old son beaten up when police raided

Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt continues targeting small and large business owners and main indicators prove that cruel purge is bad for the economy as a whole. The unemployment rate, according to most recent data, jumped to 11.3 percent in September standing at a six-year high. Meanwhile, the Turkish lira lost 17 percent of its value

Immediately following the discovery that the gunman who shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening was a police officer, the pro-government media was quick to put the blame on the Gülen movement. The gunman, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, chanted Islamist slogans also used by radical terrorist organization the Al Nusra Front after he shot

The Ministry of Interior Affairs recently announced in a written statement that as part of a state of emergency in Turkey, the mayors of all local administrations are required to obtain permission from the ministry if they want to travel abroad. Turkey declared emergency rule after a failed coup attempt on July 15 and has

The Turkey Blocks internet censorship watchdog has identified and verified that restrictions on the Tor anonymity network and Tor Browser are now in effect throughout Turkey. Our study indicates that service providers have successfully complied with a government order to ban VPN services. Tor is a free and open system designed to allow activists, journalists and ordinary internet users to circumvent government censorship of

The veteran Turkish journalist, Ayşenur Arslan quitted her daily program Medya Mahallesi [Media Neighborhood] at Halk TV, saying she cannot continue her job “as if everything is normal in Turkey.” “Sometimes silence is the biggest cry. We have come to the end at Medya Mahallesi,” she said during her last program on Dec. 16. “I cannot