Turkey Purge

Detained along with 20 other colleagues from four provinces across Turkey, one teacher told reporters not to take her picture saying: “Please, I have students.” Twenty-one teachers were detained in Denizil, Ankara, Adana and Gaziantep in an operation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams from the Adana Police Department conducted simultaneous

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Thursday dismissed a total of 1,218 officers from the Gendarmerie Forces Command due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15. A statement made by the ministry said 419 officers, 604 non-commissioned officers, 158 specialized

Şırnak deputy of pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) Ferhat Encü announced on Thursday that his passport was confiscated at İstanbul airport as he was getting ready to board on plane for a flight to Brussels. Encü wrote on Twitter that due to a travel ban abroad issued by a court on Thursday, he was not

Twelve academics were detained as part of an investigation against the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, on Thursday. The detainees are accused of using the smart phone application ByLock, which according to prosecutors is the top communication tool among members of the

The Ankara Bar Association has strongly criticized two recent state of emergency decrees that were issued by the government on Oct. 29, saying they violate the right to a defense. “The goal of the recent decrees [675 and 676] is to destroy people’s right to a defense. The right that was challenged does not belong

Twenty-one teachers have been detained across four provinces in an operation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams from the Adana Police Department conducted simultaneous raids on residences belonging to teachers in Adana, Gaziantep, Ankara and Denizli provinces on Wednesday morning. Five of the detained teachers were women. When the detainees were

Two dormitories in İstanbul’s Beylikdüzü district that belonged to the faith-based Gülen movement but have been seized by the government due to a heavy crackdown it has launched on the movement have been transferred to the pro-government Ensar Foundation, which came to public attention earlier this year due to child abuse allegations, according to a

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Hüseyin Gülen and niece Büşra Gülen were arrested in their hometown of Erzurum on Wednesday on the grounds that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock. Hüseyin Gülen and Büşra Gülen were detained in the western province of İzmir last week. They were subsequently brought to Erzurum