An Ankara court on Friday sentenced Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 10 years in prison in a case in which she was tried for allegedly “being the leader of a terror organization.” According to a report by the Hürriyet Daily News, Tuğluk said in her defense before the […]
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Mahmut Birlik, vice president of the Gaziantep branch of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been appointed as trustee for 7 companies that were transferred to the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) due to their owners’ alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish authorities of being behind a failed coup in
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Suna Uslu, 29-year old Turkish woman and the mother of 1.5-year-old Asım Uslu (pictured above) has been sentenced to 7,5 years in prison for working at a now-closed student dormitory affiliated with the Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to an e mail sent to Turkeypurge.com editors by
Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating whether Turkish diplomats and intelligence officers planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman shortly after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, local media said. A group of five including the diplomats from the Turkish embassy in Bern, intelligence officers and others met several times at a cemetery and
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At least 14 people were detained over their alleged use of ByLock mobile application in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Konya on Thursday. A Turkish prosecutor issued detention warrants for a total of 17 people in Konya on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. 15
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A 37-year-old businessman, named Yavuz Bulbul took refuge at Austrian police after officers at the Turkish consulate general in Vienna attempted to seize his passport over links to the Gulen movement. According to Turkish and Austrian sources, Bulbul, on Tuesday, stopped by the consulate to extend his passport, to be expired soon. However, the consulate
Mehmet Kosar, a father of two and a 38-year-old computer teacher in Mugla’s Fethiye who was dismissed from his job over links to the Gulen movement, has killed himself days after he was released from prison pending trial over connections to Gulenists. Local media said that Kosar hanged himself to an iron bar attached to
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Three people are facing trial on charges of spying on critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Evrensel daily reported on Monday based on an article that appeared in the Danish Berlingske newspaper. Last year Mehmet Dönmez, the Turkish ambassador in Copenhagen, was summoned by Denmark’s Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen for clarification of claims
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Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday hit back at a statement issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office concerning the 2016 death of teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, asking why allegations of torture had not been investigated, Cumhuriyet reported. Following a statement made on March 6 by Kılıçdaroğlu concerning the death
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A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday demanded life imprisonment for American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016, over alleged links to a failed coup attempt in July 2016, the Doğan news agency reported. Brunson, who was jailed due to suspected ties to the Gülen group, was charged with acquiring secret
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