Turkey Purge

Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) global aid organization’s Kars director Zafer Aslan has been arrested as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt. The manager of the Zekiye Hanım Girls’ Dormitory in Turkey’s eastern province of Kars and the director of KYM’s branch in the same […]

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 227 people were arrested, while 99 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 29

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters at a meeting in Diyarbakır on Sunday that there are nearly 14,000 teachers who are somehow affiliated with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and that the Education Ministry is working on a list of probable suspects to suspend prior to the beginning of the new academic year.

Turkey’s top judicial council has reassigned 1,418 judges and prosecutors while it let 956 newcomers into the profession, in two decrees. The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) changed the duty places of 1,418 judges and prosecutors across the country, on Friday. Meanwhile, 956 new judges and prosecutors were certified by the council. The

Reporter for pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), Sebahattin Koyuncu was arrested for allegedly making propaganda on behalf of the outlawed PKK, while Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Atilla Taş, Mutlu Gölgeçen and Murat Aksoy were jailed as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement over the past 24 hours. The number of journalists under arrest in

The Ministry of Defence has dismissed 76 military court judges and prosecutors over links to the Gülen movement as post-coup bid purge widens. The dismissals were announced on the ministry’s Twitter account, on Friday. Turkey survived a military coup attempt that killed over 240 people and wounded a thousand others, on July 15. Immediately after

Hüsnü Salih Güder, the former rector of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (MKÜ) was arrested along with 14 other faculty members, on accusations of having ties to the Gulen Movement, which the government pinned the blame for the July 15 coup attempt, on Friday. Among the arrestees are professors, associate professors and assistant professors. Nearly 23,000 people