Turkey Purge

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir was detained in the western Turkish province of İzmir on Saturday. A detention warrant has recently been issued for Baydemir by a Şırnak upon he failed to testify to authorities as part of an investigation carried out against him in Şırnak province. The Mezopotamya new […]

Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Tavus Bin Keysan Gülen was rounded up as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt, on Saturday. Detained in Istanbul’s Umraniye district, Şamil is accused of membership to a terrorist organization as the government labels the movement as terrorist group. The

More than 50 former public employees committed suicide after they were removed from their offices as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, according to the Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (KESK). Over 50 people, among them former judges, prosecutors, police officers and civil servants committed suicide due to dismissal from their

A Karabuk couple, both teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs over alleged ties to the Gulen movement, was arrested pending trial after they were caught trying to flee to Greece. The teacher couple, identified as S.M and H.M, was rounded up along with 10 others near Büyükdoğanca village in Edirne, Turkey’s border province

Cahit Nakıboğlu, a 70-year-old businessman who spent nearly 1.5 years behind bars as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gulen movement, was re-arrested only a day after he was released under house arrest. The new ruling to re-jail him came hours after the pro-government journalist Cem Kucuk criticized the initial court decision to

The Antalya Regional Court of Justice has approved a 34 year, 9 month prison sentence for six university students, who are members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), several media outlets in Turkey reported. The students — Merve Nur İşleyici, Ceylan Bozkurt, Fatma Erez, Özgür Sevinç Şimşek, Didar Boza and Necla Unay —  were given prison sentences

Some 25,000 reports on Turkey’s Gülen group were sent to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in 2017, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported that. According to report, people used the MİT website to inform the organization about people suspected to be linked to the Gülen group. Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Friday said 48,305

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out a French journalist after he was asked a question about Turkish intelligence’s alleged arm shipment to Syrian extremists in Syria. “You are talking like someone from FETO organization,” Erdogan responded to French reporter Laurent Richard during a press conference in Paris on Friday. Richard said “he is talking