Turkey’s Sivas University pulled off the shelf of its libraries all copies of the books written by Fethullah Gülen and his alleged supporters and destroyed them via a shredder. The US-based Islamic scholar Gülen is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. The cleric has denied involvement on many occasions. […]
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A private school affiliated with the Gülen movement in Bursa province has been turned into a religious vocational school – known as imam-hatip schools – and members of the staff have placed a verse from the holy Quran at the entrance that reads: “Truth has come, and falsehood has departed.” When Nilufer College in Bursa’s
A group of lawyers who gathered in the western province of İzmir on Friday to protest detention warrants issued for 25 of their colleagues in the southern province of Antalya on Thursday were subjected to an intervention by police and subsequently detained. The Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 25
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At least 2,308 journalists have lost their jobs after the government shut down more than a hundred of media outlets since the July 15 failed coup attempt, according to a joint statement made by press associations on Friday. Condemning the detention and arrest of journalists during the state of emergency declared in the aftermath of
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The Turkish-language Zaman newspaper has decided to halt its operations in Germany after its readers received threats over their subscriptions to the paper, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Friday. “Our subscribers are being visited; they are being threatened that if they continue to subscribe, they will have problems,” Süleyman Bağ, an executive at the paper,
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A crackdown that has followed a failed coup in Turkey has completely gone off the tracks, with the state-run TRT Spor even failing to air encounters in the country’s first division football league due to a lack of personnel. It has already been two weeks since the start of the season, and the channel has
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“The allegation about the gun attack is true. We did our part regarding the issue,” a Kırıkkale businessman proudly confessed that he carried out the attack on a store owned by an alleged follower of the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the coup attempt in July. With top government officials calling on
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged that a witch-hunt he launched against the faith-based Gülen movement has gotten out of control and that people who have nothing to do with the movement are being labeled as Gülenists. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday night while returning from China where he attended the G20 summit, Erdoğan said:
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A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions has continued on Wednesday as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and taken into custody. At least 159 people were arrested, while 94 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. According to info Turkeypurge.com gathered,
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A total of 27 businessmen were arrested on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the government accuses the faith-based Gülen movement of masterminding. Twenty-seven businessmen, including Faruk Güllü, one of the brothers who runs separate Güllüoğlu Baklava chains, and Aydınlı Group Chairman Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı, who
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