Turkey Purge

Kahramanmaraş governor has banned all public events, gatherings and commemorations days before the 39th anniversary of the Maras massacre. All meetings, demonstration marches, rallies, commemoration events, setting up stands and tents, press statements and similar activities were banned for a month, a statement by the governor said on Dec 15, four days before the massacre’s […]

Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the purge-victim Turkish civil servant Veli Şaçılık, was reportedly beaten by a group of police officers for publicly protesting his son’s dismissal under post-coup emergency rule. Veli Saçılık is a former political prisoner and public servant who was sacked by government decree in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt in

An Ankara court on Thursday issued a detention warrant for Nevin İpek, the wife of Akın İpek, a Turkish businessman who has been sought by the Turkish government over his links to the Gülen group. The Milliyet daily reported that the Ankara 24th High criminal court issued the warrant after İpek failed to appear at

At least 70 people in 34 different Turkish provinces have been taken into custody over alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, among the detainees was Z.K.T., the military entrance processing commander of Isparta’s Yalvaç district. Z.K.T. and other detainees were reportedly taken

Izmir governor, on Wednesday, banned the “No State of Emergency, Urgent Democracy” rally, organized by several labor unions, 10 days before it was held in the city’s iconic Gündoğdu square. The event was banned on the grounds that it may harm public order and violate others’ rights and freedoms, a statement by the governor’s office

At least 39 people were detained in simultaneous police operations in 8 different Turkish provinces over use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on December 7, 2017. According to the report, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for the thirty-nine alleged users of the