Turkey Purge

A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to arrest three editors and one media worker from the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, which was seized by the Turkish government in late March on the grounds that it has links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Özgürlükçü Demokrasi is the successor of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which […]

Adil Demirci, a Turkish origin German ciziten, has been put in pre-rial detention in Turkey over alleged “membership in a terrorist organization.” According to the German news portal Deutsche Welle, Demirci was initially detained by the Turkish police on April 13 along Semiha Şahin and Pınar Gayip, two journalists affiliated with the pro-Kurdish ETHA news agency. He is

Fatih Uğur Koştan, a former captain who was removed from his post in February due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt in July 2016, committed suicide in İzmir province late on Tuesday, Turkish media reported. Koştan reportedly went to his

The Turkish government has identified a total of 3,000 active duty military officers suspected of links to the Gülen group, said Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday. “They will be dismissed with a government decree in the coming days,”Canikli stated according to report by the Hürrüyet daily. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has

Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was allegedly abducted from his car in Ankara on December 6, 2017, was handed over to the Ankara police on Monday, the family members told the TurkeyPurge editors. Horzum’s disappearance made it to the news for the first time when a Twitter account believed to be controlled by Umit’s wife tweeted in

Thousands of people affiliated with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans to extend a state of emergency, known as OHAL, which was declared following a failed coup attempt in July 2016. Police teams prevented the crowd from entering Taksim Square, forcing the

Professor Füsun Üstel, one of the academics who signed a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human rights and civilian casualties among the predominantly Kurdish population of eastern Turkey, has been handed down a prison sentence of 15 months on terror propaganda charges. The ruling was made by