Turkey Purge

Turkish police issued 187 arrest warrants and raided some 200 homes and workplaces on Thursday as their investigation into last month’s failed military coup shifted towards the business community, media reported. The assets of 187 businessmen were confiscated, Anadolu Agency said. The annual income of four largest companies raided on Thursday operation is said to […]

Detention warrants were issued for 86 judges and prosecutors in Turkey’s 34 provinces as part of an investigation into irregularity in occupational exams, on Thursday. While 19 of the implicated names had already been under custody over their alleged links to the July 15 coup attempt, police detained 26 of them with the rest still

A total of 20 academics and personnel at Turkey’s second most-populated university were detained as part of an investigation into the July 15 coup attempt probe. Professors and lecturers are among the academics detained at Anadolu University, on August 18. Turkey has detained 40,029 people with 20,355 of them arrested since July 15 coup attempt which

The 50-year-old movie producer Ali Tokul has become the latest victim of Turkey’s purge that has seen 40,029 people detained and 20,355 arrested since the July 15 coup attempt. Those arrested included judges, prosecutors, journalists, teachers, military and police officers, governors and even a comedian. A former finalist of Turkey’s popular talent show, Yetenek Sizsiniz