Turkey Purge

A court in Sakarya arrested Selmet Şükür, the father of former Turkish football legend Hakan Şükür, in an investigation into the failed 15 July coup aimed at unseating the current Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. Earlier on Aug 11, Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the arrest of Şükür and his father over their alleged ties […]

An indictment prepared for Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş and its Ankara MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder demanded up to five years in prison on charges of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”. Bakırköy Public Prosecutor prepared the indictment against Demirtaş and Önder on grounds of their speeches at a rally in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district

A 60-year-old man who is said to be the former chauffeur of Ekrem Dumanlı, the former editor-in-chief of daily Zaman, has been arrested on suspicion of having links to the recent failed military coup attempt in Turkey. Tahsin Kürklü was detained by gendarmerie officers in Gürün district of Sivas province on Wednesday and hours later arrested by a Sivas court. Posting tweets

While thousands of people from various institutions and organizations have been detained/arrested since the failed coup attempt on July 15, the operation towards journalists and media outlets also continue in full career. Turkish journalists with grey service passports now need to get permission from the Directorate General of Press and Information to leave Turkey, Ekrem

Turkish pop singer and songwriter Sıla Gençoğlu’s upcoming concerts have been canceled by Turkish authorities after she refused to attend an İstanbul rally on Aug 7 to protest the July 15 coup attempt. Days before Turkish people gathered at a meeting venue in İstanbul’s Yenikapı district for a joint democracy rally to protest the coup attempt, Sıla announced

A trustee panel has been appointed to Naksan Holding group and its 56 subordinate companies for alleged links to the recent failed military coup attempt in Turkey, latest victim of gov’t crackdown on private enterprise. Gaziantep-based Naksan Holding has some 7,000 employees, among top 500 industrial firms, active in many sectors.

Former daily Zaman reporter Ayşenur Parıldak was arrested on Thursday for being followed by the notorious Turkish whistleblower Fuat Avni on Twitter, who has previously revealed the details of a number of police and judicial operations before they happened through social media. A penal court of peace in the capital Ankara has ruled for the arrest of the journalist. Fuat Avni

Istanbul-Based Marmara University announced on 11 Aug that it has laid off 88 of its staff and also asked the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) to strip 43 of its academics of their licenses as part of Turkish government’s widening crackdown after the failed military coup attempt. In the statement, the university management said: “88 people