In a strong reaction to a threat made by European Parliament President Martin Schulz to impose economic sanctions on Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Schulz disrespectful, daring him to do whatever he can and saying “Who the hell are you?“ Talking to a group of farmers in Ankara on Monday, Erdoğan condemned Europe’s warning […]
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“My husband has cancer and needs special treatment. It is unlikely that he can get that under his current poor prison conditions. Please hear my voice. Anyone who has a conscience! Please help me and my husband. Please help us before it’s too late!” reads a letter sent to Turkey Purge by the wife of
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a consultative body of the European Union, expressed very serious concern for the current situation in Turkey with regard to respect for fundamental rights. “While the crime committed in attempting to seize power by violence is to be strongly condemned, under no circumstances can an attempted coup d’état
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Halil G., the owner of one of the biggest construction companies in Şanlıurfa province, was arrested by a Turkish court on Monday over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a failed coup on July 15. Halil G. came to public attention when he put up huge billboards of
Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi on Saturday likened pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who were arrested last week to rats coming out of a sewer. “We will not go. Come and get us, says one [HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş]. The state of the Republic of Turkey took them by the neck like rats coming
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The Turkish government does not care about what “Western countries” say about the planned reinstatement of capital punishment, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday. “I know how my nation feels about this issue [death penalty]. And therefore this issue is on the agenda of Parliament. The important thing is what my nation wants.
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Turkey’s Defense Ministry has announced that it has suspended 291 officers and expelled 19 others at the Naval Forces Command over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. The announcement was made on Sunday from the Twitter account of the Defense Ministry. (Turkish Minute)
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Turkish government’s crackdown expands to Turkey’s countryside as authorities has recently dismissed a total of 52 teachers, 15 doctors in Turkish district of Merzifon as part of an investigations into the coup attempt of July 15. According to local media outlets, Merzifon police also arrested 22 businessmen over alleged Güen links over the weekend. This
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Justice and Development Party (AKP) İzmir deputy Hüseyin Kocabıyık has said the Turkish people will raid prisons and hang sympathizers of the Gülen movement and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the event of the assassination of high-ranking state officials. Kocabıyık made the controversial remarks in a Twitter message he posted on Sunday. “In the
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Turkish police have detained five advisors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party said in a statement on Friday. Underlining that the scope of the operation against the HDP has further widened to include the party’s parliamentary advisors, HDP Deputy Co-chair Responsible for Foreign Affairs Hişyar Özsoy said in astatement: “Special operations police raided
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