Turkey Purge

Ayşe Gökkan, a Turkish activist and a member of Free Women Movement (TJA), has been detained by Turkish police in the Nusaybin district of Mardin province, the sendika.org news portal reported on Monday. According to the report, Gökkan was taken into custody in Nusaybin’s Abdulkadir Paşa neighbourhood due to an outstanding detention warrant and was taken […]

Kıvılcım Arat, a Turkish LGBT activist, is entering the third day of a hunger strike to expose human rights violations committed against Diren Coşkun, a transgender woman who has been held in pre-trial detention in Tekirdağ prison. According to the T24 news portal, Coşkun launched a hunger strike after she was denied surgery by the

Forty-six more military members have been detained in the last 24 hours over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, as part of investigations launched by the Kastamonu, Adıyaman and Merzifon chief public prosecutor’s offices, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The Gülen movement is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a coup attempt

Women wanted for their alleged ties to the Gulen movement are now accused of getting pregnant to ditch arrest, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. A 25-page indictment prepared by the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office as part of an investigation into the movement’s alleged network of lawyers claimed that women suspected of Gulen ties across

Three people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were on their way to escape to the Greece on Feb 2, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Monday. Anadolu said gendarmerie stopped a bus near the Üyüklütatar village in Edirne and rounded up the suspects who were facing outstanding arrest warrants over

A graphic video that has recently emerged on social media purportedly shows a group of Turkish-speaking soldiers beating a Kurdish villager in order to get information about anti-tank missile belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). According to the pro-Kurdish @TurkeyUntold Twitter account, the video was recorded during a Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria. The Turkish

Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has removed from its Islamic Encyclopedia content by some scholars are affiliated with the Gulen movement, according to theology professor Ayhan Tekines. In a series of tweets, Tekines said Friday that Diyanet censored the encyclopedia’s online version, removing articles written by him and Suat Yildirim, a close associate of Fethullah

Pınar Türk, İstanbul district head for the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), has been put in pre-trial detention by an İstanbul court, the Birgün daily reported on Friday. According to the report, Türk was jailed distributing leaflets lambasting a recent state of emergency decree that stipulates all convicts and suspects under arrest for alleged crimes against the

A Turkish citizen working for the US Consulate in Istanbul, identified as N.M.C., was put under de facto house arrest, according to Al-Monitor on Thursday. N.M.C. was interrogated for four hours and asked to remain in his house until a further notice, sources told Al-Monitor adding that he did not go to work on Feb