Turkey Purge

Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Tavus Bin Keysan Gülen was put in pretrial detention as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Thursday. Detained in Istanbul’s Umraniye district on Jan 6, Şamil is accused of establishing and leading a terrorist organization as the government labels the […]

A recently released quarterly report, the BIA Media Monitoring Report, has revealed that 122 journalists were in Turkish jails as of Jan.1, 2018, while 520 journalists are facing 237 aggravated life sentences and an additional 3,672 years in prison on various charges. The 520 journalists who are standing trial without pretrial detention also face the

Ali Furkan Yabaneri, a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at Istanbul’s prestigious Koç University, died of an overdose months after his father was jailed as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown. Local media said Yabaneri committed suicide at his family’s home in the central Anatolian province of Kirsehir on Jan 15. A last-year student at the electrical

An Istanbul court has turned down requests that were launched for the release of veteran journalists Ahmet Şık, Murat Sabuncu and Akın Atalay three days ago. Lawyers representing the three Cumhuriyet journalists submitted petitions to the Istanbul court overseeing the case, asking for the release of their clients over an earlier ruling by the Constitutional Court,

The mayor of Bilecik’s İnhisar district  intervened in Sala prayers recited by a local imam in order to encourage people into streets during the night of July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been arrested by a Turkish court. According to the Birgün daily, Ayhan Ödübek is accused of forcibly silencing an Imam while reciting Sala

The Istanbul 27th High Criminal Court has rejected a demand by Turkey’s Constitutional court to release Turkish academic Mehmet Altan from prison, several Turkish media outlets reported. The local court’s decision came several days after the Constitutional Court for the release of Altan and columnist Şahin Alpay from jail on Jan. 11. In Turkey, the

2 suspects who reportedly beat a 75-year old woman last week in Denizli province, were reportedly released by a Denizli judge after a brief interrogation on Monday, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. About 10:00 p.m. Jan. 10, police were called to a home in Denizli’s Çal district, where Ümmü Coşdan was beaten and bruised by two man