Turkey Purge

The first indictment prepared by a prosecutor in İstanbul into a failed coup attempt on July 15 seeks three consecutive life sentences for 21 police officers on coup charges and up to 15-year prison sentences for eight police officers on terrorism charges. The indictment, prepared by İstanbul public prosecutor Evliya Çalışkan, has been accepted by […]

In response to attempts by the Turkish government to defend a state of emergency currently in effect in Turkey by making comparisons to France, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Monday rejected any similarity between the two, saying that in his country the courts are independent, even during the state of emergency. Speaking during a

At least 34 academics and administrative staff from the now-closed-down Canik Başarı University, located in Samsun, were detained in an operation on Monday involving 220 police officers in nine provinces. Police carried out operations in Samsun, Ankara, Adana, Trabzon, İstanbul, Mersin, Isparta, Kastamonu and Muğla and took 29 suspects into custody as part of an investigation

An open forum that was to host a discussion about the legal basis of Turkey’s post-coup-attempt emergency rule at Ankara University’s law faculty has been cancelled by the university board, which based its decision on a recent notice from the Ankara Governor’s Office that said such meetings were prohibited until Nov. 30. The Perspective Students

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that the government will imprison people connected to the Gülen movement unless they become informant about the activities of the movement. In yet another threat against the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, Erdoğan said:” O Members of FETÖ and people

The former president of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Mustafa Arslan has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules on Wednesday. A group of lawyers representing Arslan stated in a petition to the prosecutor in charge in Ankara that they want to know whereabouts of their client