Turkey Purge

İstanbul police detain at least 30 people for insulting Şeyma Subaşı, the wife of Turkey’s one of the richest and well-known TV presenters, Acun Ilıcalı. The suspects are accused of systematically insulting Subaşı on Instagram and Twitter. Ilıcalı is known for his close relations with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His wife is criticized widely due to […]

Ömer Pekin, a Turkish radio presenter and actor, has reportedly been arrested over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. Along with Pekin, 8 other actors were also sent to prion on similar charges. According to several Turkish media outlets, Pekin, who was detained by police

At least 586 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 586 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 6 to 13. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15, 2016

Ten people were detained on Monday morning in Ankara as part of an operation into social media launched by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office, the T24 news website reported. According to the report, Evren Çevik, foreign relations bureau member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), is among the detainees, who were accused of disseminating

A Turkish court remanded in prison the president of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Selçuk Kozağaçlı, on Monday. He was jailed on charges of membership to a terrorist organization. Kozağaçlı is the lawyer for famed Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who started a hunger strike in order to protest their dismissal under state of emergency

One of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, Osman Kavala, has voiced his anticipation that “justice will prevail sooner or later” in his comments on his recent arrest by Turkey. Releasing a statement through his lawyers, Kavala acknowledged messages of support from the country and abroad. “Messages of support coming from

Prime coup suspect Kemal Batmaz’s brother Sakir Batmaz was put in pretrial on terror charges. State-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday that Sakir Batmaz is accused of being an alleged Fethullahist Terrorist Organisation (FETO) leader. Dismissed from Kayseri’s Erciyes University a professor of contemporary history, Batmaz earlier spent some time behind bars on charges

Turkey’s State Hydraulic Works (DSI), the agency responsible for national water resources has asked its employees to declare their social media accounts as well as their families’, according to Swedish media outlet Arbetet. The article, titled “Turkish Surveillance Invades Social Media Privacy,” said DSI’s 22,000 employees were asked to list the social media accounts used

The number of Turkish citizens who fled Turkey following a failed coup last year and applied for asylum in Germany in October totals 1,059, Deutsche Welle said on Thursday. According to a Deutsche Welle report on Thursday, the German Interior Ministry said the number of Turkish refugee claimants in Germany was 1,059 in October. The corresponding number