Turkey Purge

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Friday dismissed a total of 265 military officers, 153 from the Gendarmerie Forces Command and 112 from Coast Guard Command, on the grounds that they have links with the Gülen movement. The Gendarmerie Forces Command and the Coast Guard Command were transferred to the Interior Ministry from the General Staff in July. […]

Turkey’s Defense Ministry announced on Friday that a total of 195 personnel, 158 of whom are officers, have been dismissed from the Land Forces Command and Naval Forces Command on the grounds that they have links to the Gülen movement. Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and

Serdar Seyidoğlu, the general manager of the Seyidoğlu Baklava chain, who was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on Oct.1, was arrested on Friday evening in İstanbul. Seyidoğlu is accused of membership in an armed terror organization. The government earlier arrested the company’s chairman, Mustafa Seyidoğlu, on the same grounds. A large

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 109 people were arrested, while 254 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in at

An Edirne judge ruled on arrest of four people who attended local protests against detainment of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and Hidayet Karaca in 2014, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, on Tuesday. A total of 7 people were detained in Edirne province for their attendance in local protests held in late 2014