Turkey Purge

Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK) has cut the access of 400 pharmacies across Turkey to the electronic prescription system, which enables them to sell medicine and receive payments, over alleged Gülen movement links. The SGK excluded 400 pharmacies from the electronic system known as Medula, which effectively prevents them from doing business. The pharmacies that […]

An Izmir court on Saturday appointed trustees to Kavuklar Holding and Küçükbay Group which parents the popular vegetable oil producer, Orkide, over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. Established in 1970, Kavuklar has interests in automotive, real estate, construction, finance, food, and printing businesses. Meanwhile, Küçükbay was ranked Turkey’s 106th largest industrial corporation

Turkish government has cancelled election of rectors by faculty members with the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becoming only authority to appoint rectors from among three professors proposed by the High Education Council (YÖK). Two government decrees were released as part of Turkey’s post-coup emergency rule on Saturday. According to the new regulation, the president is

As part of a post-coup-attempt purge, the Turkish government has dismissed 10,158 people from state institutions with new state of emergency decrees issued on Saturday. According to the two new decrees, numbered 675 and 676, a total 10,158 staff members, including 2,216 from the Education Ministry, 2,774 from the Health Ministry and 1,267 from the

A Turkish court ruled for judicial supervision and a travel ban for Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), claiming that she represents a flight risk. The decision was taken by the 5th Aggravated Felony Court in Şanlıurfa province as part of a case filed against Yüksekdağ for a speech she delivered

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that legislation to reinstate capital punishment, which was abolished in 2004, will soon be taken to Parliament by the Justice And Development Party (AKP). “It is soon. … Don’t worry. … It is soon, God willing. … Our government [AKP] will bring it to Parliament. I believe that

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 218 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

A popular Twitter user with the user name “JeansBiri” was identified and detained in Gaziantep province in southeastern Turkey on Thursday for starting a hashtag on the social media platform about a call from a pro-Justice and Development Party (AK Party) figure for the arming of party members. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will revoke the citizenship of followers of the faith-based Gülen movement who sought refuge abroad due to a government crackdown on alleged movement sympathizers if they do not return to Turkey within a certain period of time, the pro-government Sabah daily reported on Thursday. In recent remarks President