Turkey Purge

Turkish authorities should cease preventing Dilek Dündar, wife of exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, from leaving the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Can Dündar told CPJ that security officers at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport this morning confiscated his wife’s passport and prevented her from boarding a plane to Europe, where she was to

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 194 people were arrested, while 264 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Meanwhile, nearly 51,000 civil servants were removed

Academics who signed a pro-peace declaration earlier this year and an atheist associate professor are among 2,346 academics who were removed from their posts due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement. In line with a recent decree issued under post-coup-attempt emergency rule, the Turkish government dismissed 50,589 civil servants including academics and

Police detained four local journalists in Turkey’s southern province of Adana, bringing up the already-high number of media personnel in jail. The Journalist Union of Turkey (TGS) Adana branch head Salim Büyükkaya; Adana’dan Taraf Haber columnists Abdurrahim Haklıkul; and Osman Palamut and Adana Yorum columnist Naim Yalçınel were detained on Wednesday. There are currently 109 journalists under

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 233 people were arrested, while 238 others were detained over the past 24 hours, according to Turkish news agencies. Meanwhile, two district governors, two doctors, one

Some TL 12 billion (about $4 billion) in property has been transferred to the Treasury as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, said Minister for Environment and Urbanization Mehmet Özhaseki on Thursday. “A total of 2,514 properties have been transferred to the Treasury and 2,083 properties to the Directorate General of Foundations. Property

As a ceremony for the opening of the new judicial year takes place at the presidential palace, 543 more judges and prosecutors have been dismissed by High Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) as part of a witch-hunt against the Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt on July 15. According to a report by