Turkey Purge

HRW Turkey head says post-coup crackdown aimed at building empire of fear

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Human Rights Watch’s Turkey director Emma Sinclair-Webb said the government’s post-coup crackdown is aimed at establishing an empire of fear in the country. Speaking at a rights symposium in the eastern province of Diyarbakir on Monday, she said arbitrariness is the best word to describe the post-coup period in Turkey. There are detentions, arrests, dismissals […]

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699 people detained over Gülen links in past week: ministry

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At least 699 people were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement over the past week. In a written statement on Monday, the Interior Ministry said 699 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement between Dec 4 to 11. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016 coup

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İstanbul court rules for continuation of arrest of Zaman columnists

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An İstanbul court on Friday evening ruled for continuation of imprisonment of 19 journalists from now-closed Zaman daily, the P24 news portal reported. The court also ruled for the release of three advertising and sales department staff members of the Zaman media group. In the third hearing at Silivri Prison, the İstanbul 13th High Criminal

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1,100 newly graduated medical doctors unemployed due to post-coup security checks: report

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The Turkish government has failed to issue licenses for at least 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors, who have still been waiting for the security/intelligence investigation to be completed after they graduated from medical school under the rule of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According a report

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Swedish parliamentarian says Turkish police threatened him with arrest

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Swedish parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt said that Turkish police threatened him with arrest in Ankara, where he attempted to monitor the trial of jailed pro-Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas on Thursday. The chairman of the Sweden’s Left Party said he was prevented from attending Demirtas’s hearing as an observer, and police threatened him with arrest in case

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Rights groups say 2,278 people tortured, 11 abducted in Turkey in 2017

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The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) said on Saturday that 2,278 people were tortured and 11 abducted in Turkey during the first 11 months of 2017, according to Gazeteduvar. Releasing a human rights report under an ongoing state of emergency, the IHD and TİHV noted that human rights violations

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Suspended policeman reportedly dies while working as construction worker

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Lokman Keleş, a Konya-based police officer who was suspended as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died after falling from a building under construction, the last resort for him to make ends meet according to people familiar with his situation. “Police officer Lokman Keleş, who was suspended due to false accusations, passed

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Press groups say ECHR’s role gaining importance for Turkey’s post-coup victims

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Journalists and writers’ associations from across the world has said in a joint statement Thursday that the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) role in ensuring justice for Turkey’s post-coup victims “has become ever more important.” “…considering the many fair trial violations, we have observed throughout our trial monitoring as well as the many other human

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New report shows Turkey’s purge ruined lives of 21,000 health care workers

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More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors, technicians and hospital staff have thus far been dismissed from public and private hospitals as well as medical schools and associations in Turkey as part of a crackdown on perceived critics of the government, research by the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has revealed.

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