Turkey Purge

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 93 people were arrested, while 172 others were detained on Wednesday, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 30 provinces across Turkey. […]

A police officer identified only by the initials E.O. committed suicide in the courtyard of the Bayburt Police Station after he was suspended over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a July 15 coup attempt. Turkey’s National Police Department on Monday suspended 12,801 officers in the latest wave of

An Istanbul woman has been tricked out of $800,000 by scammers who convinced her to help them catch sympathisers of the Gülen movement in an alleged secret police operation. A government-orchestrated witch-hunt against the movement has been ensnaring new victims every day, with even swindlers capitalizing the newly emerged frenzy. A 58-year-old woman, known only

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mehmet Metiner has said he would have done the same if he were the police officers who roughed up sympathizers of the Gülen movement in an attempt to arrest them. “I am not interested in [allegations of] kicks and slaps during arrests [of FETÖ members]. I would do

Forty-seven people including military officers and a deputy governor were arrested in separate operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement in İstanbul and Ankara on Thursday. Twenty-seven people, among them military officers and pilots from the Akıncı 4th Air Base, were arrested as part of an investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Turkey’s paranoia over the Gülen movement has reached new heights with the government banning mathematics textbooks due to questions involving the initials of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. “A textbook was banned just because it features Gülen’s initials in a practice question that reads: ‘… from point F to point G …’. It has become a

The Turkish government’s crackdown after the coup attempt of July 15 widened into a sweeping purge on Tuesday, reaching deeply not only into the Gulen Movement, which the AK Party officials accuses of masterminding the attempt, but also other minority groups accross the country. Teams from the İstanbul Police Department on Tuesday stormed the offices of three media

At least 90 people were arrested, while 329 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 20 provinces across Turkey. With most of the arrestees being teachers, those arrested over the past day also included police officers, high rank military personnel and businessmen.  

The Turkish government has banned journalists Ayşe Yıldırım and Celal Başlangıç from travelling abroad after seizing their passports at an İstanbul airport on Monday. “We were taken to the police station at the İstanbul airport. We are waiting for notification that our passports have been canceled. They asked us to sign a document saying that