Turkey Purge

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 39,378 people and detained another 92,607 since the failed coup attempt of July 15, Turkish Justice Min Bekir Bozdağ said on Monday. According to a report appeared in the news website Diken on Tuesday, Bozdağ said people have been arrested/detained over their alleged links to Gülen movement, […]

Selçuk Kozağaçlı, president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), was detained in Ankara along with three other lawyers on Monday soon after he talked about acts of torture being committed in Turkey’s prisons. Kozağaçlı recently came to public attention with his remarks suggesting that people who were jailed as part of an ongoing crackdown

Turkish police on Monday detained Ahmet Türk, a former deputy and also co-mayor of the Mardin Municipality, and Emin Irmak, Artuklu district mayor, as part of a terrorism probe. The mayors were detained at home as part of an investigation overseen by the Mardin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Both Türk and Irmak were recently removed

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the past couple of weeks and has seized the administration of 28 municipalities, jailing 37 Kurdish mayors in eastern Turkey. On Nov. 4, Turkish courts arrested nine HDP deputies including the party’s co-chairs, who were detained in

As Pakistan has recently decided to expel 108 Turkish teachers from 28 international schools across the country, video footages showing tens of Pakistani students and parents protesting the deportation order in several branches across Pakistan went viral on the social media on Saturday. In the footages, several hundred students in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi are

The wife of a Calgary imam told The Globe and Mail daily on Tuesday that her husband is being held in solitary confinement in Turkey for three months and she is worried about his well-being. Davud Hanci, an imam who holds Canadian and Turkish citizenship, was arrested in July shortly after the failed coup attempt

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 154 people were arrested, while 197 others were detained over the past 48 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at