Turkey Purge

At least 334 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 334 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between July 30-Aug 6. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, […]

The German Foreign Ministry has announced that 54 German citizen were denied entry to Turkish territory in the first seven months of the year, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Monday. The figure was 95 for all of last year, according to the ministry’s answer to a Left Party parliamentary question. After a failed coup

Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is on the wall: Her country is sliding into fascism. Speaking to AFP, the award-winning author, still traumatized by the four months she spent in an İstanbul prison, warns that Turkey’s institutions

An indictment charging 11 journalists from the now-closed Karşı daily with membership in a terrorist organization, aiding a terrorist organization without membership in it and revealing the identities of public servants engaged in counterterrorism operations was approved by an İstanbul court on Thursday, the Diken news website reported. The İstanbul 23rd High Criminal Court also issued

A Danish court has turned down Turkish government’s request to extradite Cemal Deniz, a 58-year-old man Turkish national of Kurdish origin who is accused of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), back to Turkey. Under custody since July 14, the man was released after Danish officials concluded that he cannot be extradited since

At least three people were intercepted in Edirne while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greece with illegal means, in the latest of such attempts aimed at avoiding Turkey’s post-coup crackdown. A lawyer; a medical professor who was earlier removed from his post at the Inonu University over ties to the Gulen

Turkish courts have handed down 1,655 life sentences so far in 200 investigations following the 2016 failed coup, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. A total of 289 cases were opened against coup suspects, media said, adding that 1,655 life sentences were given in 200 of those cases. Of 1,655, 765 were aggravate life sentences, meaning the

A Turkish man, identified only by his initials S.D., has reportedly jumped into Evros in a bid to avoid imprisonment, state-run Anadolu news agency said July 31. Gendarmerie detained 3 out of 4 suspected followers of the Gulen movement, located in Saçlımüsellim village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province with Greece. The third suspect, wanted over

A German citizen identified as Dennis E. has been arrested in Turkey on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda” on social media, the Demirören news agency reported on Wednesday. Dennis E. was detained at his home in Hatay’s Arsuz district by the İskenderun counterterrorism team on Wednesday. He later appeared before a court, which ruled for