Turkey Purge

A total of six journalists and one other employee of Sözcü daily, a government-critical newspaper, have been  convicted of “aiding the network of Turkey’s Gülen movement, which is accused of masterminding a failed coup in 2016. The movement denies any involvement in the atempt. Emin Çölaşan and Necati Doğru, two veteran Turkish columnists, were sentenced […]

Kahraman Demirez, one of six Turkish nationals who were rendered to Turkey from Kosovo in an intelligence operation last year, has been sentenced to 8 years, 9 months in prison by an İstanbul court, the Anadolu News agency reported. While Demirez was acquitted of charges of international espionage, he was handed down the prison sentence

Asım Sencer Uslu entered prison when he was only 40-day-old. Yesterday, he turned 3 in a Konya prison, according to a Twitter account that monitors the human rights abuses in Turkish prisons. 3-year-old Asım and his mother have been staying in a prison in Konya’s Eregli district for almost thee years the mother’s alleged links

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has removed from office three mayors from the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and one from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) over allegations of terrorism, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. In the southeastern province of Muş, Bulanık district mayor Adnan Topçu, Varto district mayor Ülkü Karaaslan and Erentepe mayor

The total number of Turkish citizens who have faced investigation since July 2016 on terror and coup linked charges exceeded half a million by December 2019, according to an opposition party deputy chairman. A total of  562,581 people have been investigated over real and alleged links to the Gülen movement, Feti Yıldız, deputy chairman of

İbrahim Burak Oğuz, the mayor of İzmir’s Urla district from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was sent to prison on Monday evening due to alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, the Turkish media reported. Oğuz was reportedy summoned by a prosecutor on Monday to testify in an investigation into the movement and was subsequently arrested

Enes Ünal, the son of jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal, was detained by Ankara police, the Bold news reported. The reason for detention remains unclear. Mustafa Ünal was the Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily. He was arrested after a military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, and was handed down a

A Turkish court rejected a request on Wednesday to release a US Consulate employee jailed since 2017 on espionage charges despite his argument that no credible evidence had been submitted against him, AFP reported. The case of Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen and liaison for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at the US Consulate