Turkey Purge

A total of 2,274 educational institutions have been closed over their allged or real links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz. Speaking to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Yılmaz said that the fight against Gülenists will continue until “the […]

At least 674 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 674 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 30 to Nov 6. Turkish government accuses the movement of masterminding the July 15,

Nine people were detained in Turkey’s western province of Mugla while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Nov 4. Anadolu said the detainees had outstanding arrest warrants, earlier issued over their alleged use of ByLock. ByLock is a controversial, encrypted mobile app that Turkish government believes to

Jailed businessman and civil activist Osman Kavala said his imprisonment came just after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s words, implying that the judiciary ruled under pressure. “Just like the human rights defenders at Buyukada were targeted by the President Erdogan, I was arrested following Erdogan’s words,” Kavala told Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputies Veli Agbaba and

Manisa province’s Garrison Commander Brigadier General Yavuz Ekrem Arslan, under arrest over coup charges since July 19, 2016, has passed away at a hospital before seeing an indictment is prepared against him. Jailed only 4 days after the last year’s failed military coup, Arslan spent 259 days in a prison before being taken to the

The passport of Erkan Baş, chairman of the People’s Communist Party of Turkey (HTKP), was seized by Turkish police at an İstanbul airport on Sunday, Sputnik reported. According to the report Baş arrived at İstanbul Atatürk Airport in the morning for a flight to Moscow to participate the 100th anniversary celebration of the October Revolution.

An Ankara court has ruled to continue already a-year-long imprisonment of Murat Arslan, the last chairman of Turkey’s Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) who was awarded with the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Arslan is accused of, among others, helping the followers of the Gulen movement

An anonymous witness in Denizli failed to identify any of the 145 suspects, earlier accused of being followers of the Gulen movement, during a court hearing on Oct. 30. The secret witness, called Aslan, told during the court appearance that he doesn’t know the suspects by name but that he is sure about their affiliations