Turkey Purge

Nine tax inspectors were detained as part of an investigation into Gulen movement supporters in the southern province of Hatay on Wednesday. Hatay police carried out operations at several locations and rounded up the nine suspects, some of whom were earlier dismissed from their jobs over Gulen links. Turkish government blames Gulenists for the July […]

Murat and Esra Yüksel, the parents of 2-month old Selman Yüksel, have been detained by police in Kocaeli province over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in July 2016. The group denies any involvement. According to an e-mail sent to Turkeypurge editors on

An İstanbul court has sentenced cartoonist Seyfi Şahin to one year, 15 days in prison for “insulting sacred values” in a cartoon featuring the biblical prophet Moses. The ruling was made by the Küçükçekmece 2nd Penal Court of First Instance on Thursday. In the cartoon, Moses “proudly” talks about how he held out his staff and

Alaattin Duran, the dean of Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, was removed from his job several hours after Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce paid a visit to the faculty’s campus on Thursday. İnce held a public demonstration at the Cerrahpasa campus early on May 24, and vowed to abolish a government-sponsored law to establish 20 new universities across Turkey while

Machines that would once print daily copies of the Zaman newspaper and its affiliates have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). 2 newspaper printing machines, 2 CTP machines, and 1 packaging line that were seized from the now-defunct Feza Gazetecilik media group were listed to be sold at

A total of twelve people including 5 children were detained while they were reportedly on their way to escape to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Sunday that the group was rounded up after Turkey’s coastal guard stopped their boat off the Pigeon Island in the western province of Aydin. The ID check

A Turkish court arrested Rozerin Zeri, a human rights activist of Armenian origin, due to her social media posts deemed to be “propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization.” According to a tweet posted by Acun Karadağ, a history teacher who was fired from his job with a government decree issued by the Turkish government

An Istanbul court on Friday handed down life sentences to 57 air force cadets and aggravated life imprisonment to six others for their alleged role in a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The 28th High Criminal Court in Silivri acquitted two suspects while ruling for the continued

Oğuz Karakuş, a retired police chief who has been held in pre-trial detention since May 2016, died on Monday following a heart attack in an İzmir prison, several twitter users claimed. The claim has neither been confirmed nor denied by the Turkish authorities. Karakuş was arrested by an İzmir court in May 2016 over his alleged links to