A new wave of purge is expected in the state against alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement based on their use of a smart phone application, which will leave 56,000 more people unemployed, according to CNN Türk website on Friday. According to CNN Türk’s report, Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has obtained a list […]
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Fourteen individuals working at the Anatolia Courthouse in İstanbul’s Kartal district were detained on Friday as part of an investigation against the alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. Police teams conducted searches at offices of the detained individuals at the courthouse on Friday morning. Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed
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Deputy chairman of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) Mehmet Yılmaz has said judges and prosecutors who have been suspended from their posts due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement may return to their posts if they become informants. Thousands of judges and prosecutors have been suspended by the HSYK
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Nearly 115,000 objections have been filed against government decisions to dismiss people with alleged links to the Gülen movement from state positions, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Friday. The government pinned the blame for a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey on the Gülen movement and dismissed more than 105,000 civil servants, with many
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A police officer told former Zaman daily columnist Ali Bulaç, who has been in Silivri Prison since July 28 on coup charges, that he will suffer even more in prison as he did not support President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan similar to pro-government columnists, an opposition deputy said on Wednesday. Speaking with the Cumhuriyet daily on
The chairman of Ottoman Hearths 1453, Emin Canpolat, has called on all supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take up arms in the event of a second coup attempt in Turkey. Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt on July 15 that claimed the lives of more
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“It’s a kind of civil death,” Kerem Altiparmak, a human rights lawyer and political science professor at Ankara University told Los Angeles Times on Wednesday when describing how the lives of thousands of people change after the July 15 coup attempt. “You cannot leave the country, you cannot find other jobs, either because of legal
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Turkey has dropped by eight places from last year in the WJP Rule of Law Index 2016, released today by the World Justice Project (WJP). Ranked in 80th place out of 102 countries in 2015, Turkey slipped to number 99 out of 113 nations in the 2016 report. It came in 13th among the 13 countries in
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Forty-six staff members of Aksaray University in central Turkey including the university’s former rector were detained on Thursday in the latest wave of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement. Professor Mustafa Acar, who served as the university’s rector between 2011 and 2015, and the other 45 academics were detained after
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Mehmet Barlas, a columnist from the pro-government Sabah daily who is known as a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in his column on Wednesday that US President Barack Obama could be an “imam” of the faith-based Gülen movement in Washington. “Does not the question of, ‘Could Obama be the imam of FETÖ
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