Turkey Purge

About 1,800 military members have been suspended even though they showed remorse over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement, according to the Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli. “Some 1,800 people who give their statements to prosecutors as ‘confessors’ have been suspended. If they really want to benefit from the remorse law, they should do what […]

A Van court on Friday sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Lezgin Botan to 18 years in prison over terrorism charges,” the Evrensel daily reported. According to a report by the report, the Van 2nd High Criminal Court sentenced the Kurdish deputy for “damaging the integrity of the state,” “disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist

Turkish singer and actress Zuhal Olcay has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for “insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” several media outlets reported. According to Hurriyet Daily News, Olcay was charged of insulting the president during a performance in 2016 by “revising lyrics to the song ‘Boş Vermişim Dünyayı’ (I Let Go of

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to promptly end an ongoing state of emergency, torture and passport cancellation as well as a ban imposed on dismissed public servants from rejoining the civil service. In a 28-page report issued on Tuesday the OHCHR called on

Turkish lawyer Burak Mengü was detained by a group of plainclothes police officers who battered him under custody, he revealed after being abandoned at a roadside in Istanbul’s Umraniye. “No one told me why and where I was being taken to,” Mengü tweeted Saturday. Meanwhile his sister, Nevsin Mengu said: “A group of people, claimed

The US TV series Orange is the New Black’s Turkish version, Avlu [the Yard] faces censorship over some of its scenes considered making propaganda on behalf of terror organizations. Starring Turkish actress Demet Evgar as the lead character, the new TV series is set to make its debut on March 29. Cumhuriyet newspaper reported Monday

At least 537 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 537 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between March 12-19. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016

Veteran journalist Şahin Alpay, released pending trial on Friday after 20 months in jail, said he left thousands people who have nothing to do with terrorism in prison, saying that “Turkey will not be free if they are not free.” “I am extremely happy to have reunited with my family. But I cannot say that