Turkey Purge

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

The Berliner Schaubühne theater has scrapped an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Richard III in Istanbul, fearing arrest of its staff, on Tuesday. “The arrests of many journalists, scientists and human rights activists in recent weeks and months,” as well as security concerns, were behind the decision, Deutsche Welle cited a press statement by the theater

An Ardahan teacher who was removed from his/her job and later detained for four days has turned out to be blacklisted on state records as he was denied notary service to sell his/her car. According to Hurriyet daily newspaper, H.A. was dismissed from job as a teacher over alleged ties to the Gulen movement like thousands

A dormitory manager in Turkey’s Gaziantep province, identified by his initials M.G., was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months in prison, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Nov 7. M.G., the last manager of a Gaziantep dormitory, established by the followers of the Gulen movement and shut down by the government in the aftermath of the

The İstanbul Regional Court of Justice has approved a 6 month, 20 day prison sentence for Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Şansal, several Turkish media outlets reported on Wednesday. The appeal made by Şansal’s lawyer right after İstanbul 43rd Court of Justice handed down a 6 month, 20 day prison sentence for Şansal in early June, has been finalized

A website has recently been set up for one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, Osman Kavala, who was put in pretrial detention on November 1 after spending two weeks under police custody. The website — osmankavala.org — contains reports that have appeared in different Turkish media outlets and some social activities

Turkish police have detained president of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Selçuk Kozağaçlı, the Cumhuriyet daily reported. 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 decree-laws issued after a failed coup in Turkey last year. Özakça tweeted