Turkey Purge

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 […]

Osman Kavala, a Turkish businessman and activist who has been held in pre-trial detention since November 2017, has written an open letter from İstanbul’s Silivri prison, in which he said the ongoing state of emergency has turned extraordinary accusations and victimization into common phenomena in Turkey. “Without having any concrete evidence, they easily accuse people

Detention warrant was issued for Kemal Özkiraz, the coordinatior of the Eurasia Public Opinion Research Centre (AKAM), media reported on Tuesday. Police raided Özkiraz’s home and workplace, to no avail. A lawyer representing him said Özkiraz would stop by the prosecutor’s office to give his statement on Wednesday. The warrant was issued over his social

9 Boğaziçi student have been arrested by an İstanbul court while 6 others released pending trial after participating in protests against Turkey’s Afrin operation, the T24 news portal reported. On March 19, a group of students protested other students who had set up a stand at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University campus to distribute Turkish delight in

At least 853 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 568 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between March 19-26. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016

More than 1,400 Turks claimed asylum in Germany in the first two months of this year, according to German daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. The corresponding number was around 5,700 in whole 2016 and 8,500 in 2017. Compiling data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the newspaper said Germany is increasingly welcoming towards

Ayşe Çalışkan, a Sakarya teacher who was dismissed from her job in September 2016, died of stomach cancer on March 30. The mother of two was diagnosed with cancer nearly a month after she was purged as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. She had a surgery in Istanbul in June 2017, and since then