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 274 people were arrested, while 104 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 26 provinces across […]
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A lawyer from the independent journalism organization Platform 24 (P24) has announced that journalist brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan who were detained on Saturday were being accused of revealing the plans for the July 15 coup attempt one day earlier. P24 lawyer Veysel Ok announced that his clients were detained on the grounds that
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The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced on Friday that its current number of personnel had fallen to 391,695 from 596,059 following developments in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15. According to the TSK statement, which was released almost two months after the July 15 coup attempt, which was followed by a
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Seven individuals including the owner of the Seyidoğlu Baklava chain, Mustafa Seyidoğlu, were arrested on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the government accuses the faith-based Gülen movement of masterminding. Last week, 27 businessmen, including Faruk Güllü, one of the brothers who runs Güllüoğlu Baklava operations,
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The Turkish government has cancelled the passport of former Yarına Bakış columnist Mehmet Efe Caman “due to the ongoing situation in Turkey,” officials from the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa have told the columnist on Saturday. Posting successive tweets late on Saturday, Caman, who is also a visiting professor at Memorial University in Canada, said that his and his family
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Former Turkish international footballer and former MP Hakan Şükür’s name has been removed from the Edirne Walk of Fame, which comprises the names of legendary football players embedded in the sidewalks along several blocks of Edirne’s Talatpaşa Avenue. According to Turkish media outlets, a group of workers from the Edirne Municipality arrived at the avenue
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Minister of Labor and Social Security Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has announced that the Turkish government is making preparations for an operation to cleanse alleged supporters of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from jobs they hold in public institutions. Speaking to reporters in the western province of Bursa on Thursday, Müezzinoğlu said: “The individuals working in
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A Turkish dentists who reportedly provided dental treatment for Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen several times, was arrested on Thursday in Ankara, Haberturk daily reported. According to the report, the dentists, identified only by the initials A.Ö., was detained by a group of police officers from the Anti-Terror Branch of the Ankara Police Department early on Thursday. Upon his interrogation, the man was arrested by an
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At least 135 people were arrested, while 308 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Turkish police carried out the operations in 20 provinces across Turkey. With most of the arrestees being teachers and businessmen, those arrested over the past day also included academics; police officers; lawyers and civilians.
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The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 85 people including six generals and 43 lower-ranking officers on Thursday as part of witch-hunt operations against the Gülen movement launched in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The police have started to carry out raids
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