Turkey Purge

Police have detained seven students who were part of a crowd that gathered in front of the Cumhuriyet daily’s İstanbul headquarters to protest the detention of 13 journalists on Monday. Detention warrants were issued for 18 journalists from the newspaper, and police began to take them into custody one by one on Monday morning. Thirteen journalists

Police officers in Turkey’s Muğla province on Sunday detained the son of an academic who is suspected of having links to the Gülen movement, accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup in July, and forced him to ask his father to surrender himself. The son of S.T., a professor at Selçuk University’s medical

The man who attacked Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan in Aydın on Saturday said in his testimony that he warned the opposition politician to speak politely about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The attacker, Alpaslan Sargın, told the police on Monday he was under the influence of alcohol. ¨I told him to talk

In a move that is likely to make them the target of hate crimes, the Turkish government has included the names of 37 people allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement on a list of most dangerous terrorists, offering as much as TL 4 million in rewards to those providing information leading to the arrest

Just ten years ago, Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc recalled a dramatic scene. One diplomat dropped his teacup upon hearing that he was posted to Mongolia with 5,000 USD, special residence, and a car — a lavish job at that time. “How can I live there?” the diplomat reportedly asked, according to Arinc. He noted

B.N.M., a freshman high school student killed herself allegedly after being bullied by classmates and lecturers over her teacher father’s dismissal from the profession due to his ties to the Gülen movement, on Oct. 24. Father S.M. was sacked from his job at Boyabat Şehit Ersoy Gürsu High School over his alleged links to the movement, in

N.V., a Diyarbakır judge who was suspended over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, was detained while he was on his way to flee from Turkey to Greece, on Oct. 26. According to Turkish media, N.V. was detained by police in the resort town of Bodrum at Turkey’s Aegean coasts, a popular departure spot

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 110 people were arrested, while 196 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at