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Leukemia patient, pregnant wife under arrest over coup charges

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An ever-growing government crackdown against the Gulen movement knows no bounds with an İzmir based-teacher who has been fighting leukemia and his pregnant wife, also a teacher, being held behind bars for days. Turkey Purge has recently received an anonymous tip which reveals how the government purge of suspected Gülen sympathizers affect personal lives. The […]

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President Erdoğan: No country is safe for Gülen sympathizers

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday threatened followers of the faith-based Gülen movement living all over the world, saying that no country is safe for them. “No country, no region anywhere in the world, is a safe haven for FETÖ [an acronym the government has been using to refer to the Gülen movement] and militants,”

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‘Don’t tolerate teachers sympathetic to Gülen, PKK,’ says Turkish PM

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Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Monday called on teachers in the country not to show any tolerance to their colleagues who are sympathizers of the faith-based Gülen movement or the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and not to allow them to continue doing their jobs. “Dear teachers, I have an important request of you: Never

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VIDEO: Coup brochures, videos by Education Ministry mark first day of school

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As new education year started on Monday, the Ministry of National Education distributed “Attempt to invade Turkey with coup” brochures at all state schools across Turkey. Some 19 million students also watched a video of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reciting the Turkish national anthem along with footage from the night of July 15, when an abortive

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RSF urges Turkey to ‘rescind draconian state of emergency decrees’

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report released on Monday, called on the Turkish government to rescind decrees that have been enforced under the state of emergency declared after a failed coup attempt on July 15, as the administration continues to target journalists, pluralism and freedom of information. Urging the government to return to democratic

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Another 6 civil servants arrested in Antalya over alleged Gülen links

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Six out of the 36 public employees who were recently detained in Alanya district of Antalya province in southern Turkey as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the Gülen movement, were arrested on Sunday. Police detained 36 people who work at various public institutions in Alanya on Sept. 7. Thirty of the detainees were released

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Netherlands mulls cancelling status of Islamic university over rector’s discriminatory remarks

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Dutch Education Minister Jet Bussemaker announced that there is a parliamentary debate over the Islamic University of Rotterdam for cancellation of the “university status” of the institution due to Rector Ahmet Akgündüz’s repeatedly hateful and discriminatory remarks against Turkey’s minorities and the Gülen movement. According to the amendment that Bussemaker is working on, the government

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Turkey recomposing 58 textbooks to avoid subliminal messages from Gülen

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Turkey’s Education Ministry is set to republish 58 state-distributed textbooks in order to avoid any subliminal messages from what the government calls Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). The Undersecretary to Education Ministry Yusuf Tekin said the ministry detected subliminal messages from FETÖ in 58 books. The government accuses the Gülen Movement of masterminding the coup attempt

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Gülen’s followers banned from mosque in Germany

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The discriminative practices backed by Turkey’s top state-officials has taken a new turn with sympathizers of the Gülen Movement (a.k.a. Hizmet) being denied entry to a mosque in Germany. According to a video posted by Mehmet Cerit, the editor of Zaman Vandaag, an overseas subsidiary of the government-seized Turkish daily Zaman, a man is seen

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‘Murder not suicide,’ says daughter of prosecutor killed in prison

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The daughter of former Bursa public prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit, who allegedly committed suicide in a prison bathroom on Friday morning after he was put behind bars over Gülen movement ties, said on Saturday that his father was murdered, refusing claims that his father is linked to the movement. “He was not a Fethullahçı [member of

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