Turkey Purge

Istanbul’s Beyoglu district governorship, on Friday, banned a film screening event, organized by a local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, the day before it started at the city’s central quarter of Taksim Square. “The LGBTI+ themed meeting, march, film screening and interview events that will take place on Nov. 25 in Beyoglu district […]

Turkey’s Education Ministry has made a “necessary falsification” on its records shortly after a devoted physics teacher, removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge, drowned along with his family while fleeing further persecution to Greece. Huseyin Maden, a 40-year-old educator in Kastamonu province until he was dismissed by a government’s post-coup emergency decree,

Detention warrants were issued for 99 people in Antalya province on Thursday on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report police have detained 78 of 99 suspects as part of an investigation launched by the Antalya Public Prosecutor’s Office into the

Kazim Ünlü, a former teacher who was removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions and an executive at Turkey’s main educators’ union, Egitim Sen has passed away following a heart attack. According to Evrensel daily newspaper on Thursday, Ünlü died of a heart attack at his father’s place in Elazig. Ünlü

Wardens at İstanbul’s Silivri prison reportedly forced Oğuz Usluer, a former news coordinator at HaberTurk TV who has been behind bars since Dec 28, 2016, to get a haircut against his will, according to main opposition Republican Peoples’ Partty (CHP) deputy Baris Yarkadas. “According to information we obtained today, Haberturk editor Oguz Usluer had his

People who were removed from their jobs with the government’s post-coup emergency decrees are not allowed to work as private security guards, according to pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper. “The names of 101,639 people who were dismissed [from the state institutions] have been blacklisted at the Private Security Information System’s module. These people will be directly

Intimidating paintings have been sprayed on the walls of the historic St Theodoros Trion Church in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Nevsehir. “The priest is not in, he has gone to the mosque!” read the offensive slogan on the church’s walls, Haberturk daily reported on Nov 19. A dog figure was also painted on the

A former tax inspector who was earlier removed from his job over alleged ties to the Gulen movement was detained after he was involved in a minor traffic accident. The 37-year-old man, identified as O.A., was caught in Eskisehir when police, dispatched to the accident scene, noticed that he has already been under an Izmir-based