Turkey Purge

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş made his first appearance in court today as part of a trial in which he is charged with insulting the president of Turkey, the bianet news website reported. The İstanbul Bakırköy 38th Criminal Court of First Instance had ruled that Demirtaş attend the hearing in person rather than […]

A total of 24 former Bank Asya shareholders were remanded in prison pending trial over on accusations of membership to the Gulen movement. Last week, police detained 49 former shareholders of the now-closed Islamic lender who had authority to elect the executive board and make trade-related and administrative decisions at Bank Asya. Media said Wednesday

Ankara Public prosecutor’s office has been investigating 50 to 60 businessmen who are suspected of having withdrawn from the country’s stock exchange just before a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to pro-government Yeni Safak daily, the businessmen in question “extraordinarily” sold off all their shares at the country’s stock exchange in a

Twenty-five teachers were detained in Samsun province on Thursday over links to the Gülen group, İHA reported. According to the report, two of the 25 were still teaching, while the rest had previously been dismissed as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen group launched following a failed coup in 2016. Turkey survived a military

A Kocaeli engineer, identified by his initials M.K., told the judge in charge that he will stand trial for his decision to sentence the former to nearly 7 years in jail on terror charges, media said Monday. “Dear judge, I didn’t get this sentence. You sentenced yourself. When the democracy and the rule of law

The Turkish government has been using emergency rule to suppress the dissident groups instead of “fighting the coup plotters,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said. According to a report by the Hurriyet daily news on Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu also slammed the ruling Ak Party’s recent decision to extend the state of emergency

At least 13 people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece, media said on Jan 9. State-run Anadolu news agency said gendarmerie stopped a suspected group of 13 people in Gavurağılı neighborhood in the western province of Mugla. When some of the group members attempted to escape gendarmerie