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 75 people were arrested, while 55 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 13 provinces across Turkey. […]

A businessman who named his two children after Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen was arrested in Balıkesir province on Monday as part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement. Media reports said the businessman, referred only by his initials as E.O., who is also a member of the municipal council of the Gönen district

Journalist and former singer Atilla Taş, who was jailed on Saturday as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, has sent a note from prison saying that he was put behind bars just because he criticized the government. Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Veli Ağbaba announced from his Twitter account on Sunday that

The Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) announced that it has taken over Boydak Holding, one of the largest conglomerates in Turkey. Boydak Holding is active in a number of sectors, including energy, furniture and banking with 38 subsidiary companies. According to its website, it has an annual turnover of more than TL 6 billion ($2

The building that served as the headquarters of the government-seized Feza Media Group, in the Yenibosna neighborhood of İstanbul will soon be used by the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) as an office. Feza was the parent company of Zaman newspaper, English-language Today’s Zaman, the Cihan news agency and some other media outlets.

The ex-owner of Zaman, Turkey’s biggest selling newspaper before the infamous government seizure, was arrested over his links the the US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, whom the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 failed coup attempt. Had an arrest warrant issued against him since June, Aladdin Kaya was detained in Balıkesir’s Edremit district on

5,279 people have been detained, of which 3,079 arrested as part of investigations into the July 15 failed coup attempt, in Istanbul alone. Work is underway to detain another 435 suspects. In a press statement issued on Saturday, Istanbul Police Department shared the recent tally in post-coup bid crackdown. Out of 5,279 detained in Istanbul,

Two relatives of the former parliamentary speaker and ruling AK Party Deputy Bülent Arınç were dismissed from their positions in a recent government decree that sacked 51,000 others over coup charges. The midnight decree, issued under emergency rules late on Thursday, also included the dismissals of Arınç’s nephew İbrahim Said Arınç, who served as the