Turkey Purge

The German province of North Rhine-Westphalia’s (NRW) Interior Minister Herbert Reul said Turkish intelligence service (MIT) have been collecting information about the opponents of the government of Turkey in the region. German media said on Thursday that Reul underlined in a recent parliamentary report that MIT collects systematic information about alleged government opponents on behalf of […]

A Turkish man, identified with his initials M.Ö., was detained after he attempted to leave Turkey to Greece with his passport, which, he later found out, had been cancelled by the government in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed putsch. M.Ö. handed over his passport to be stamped by police at Turkey’s Ipsala

Halil Aykul, a mechanical engineering professor and the former dean of the engineering faculty at Turkey’s Hitit University, was sentenced to 6 years, 10 months and 15 days in jail over terror charges. Dismissed from his faculty job over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, professor Aykul was earlier arrested as part of a

Mehmet Ünlü, a medical professor and the chief physician at the Kocatepe University hospital in Afyonkarahisar until he was dismissed over his alleged links to the Gulen movement, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to Kronos online news portal on Thursday, Ünlü rejected allegations raised against him however, was given 12 years of

Turkish government has been seeking the extradition of a German citizen in Ukrained, identified as Kemal K., over murder charges while the accused says the request is politically motivated. Kemal K. was detained at Kyiv’s Zhuliany International Airport upon an Interpol warrant issued by Turkey, on July 23, this year. Even though he was released three

Turkish national Zabit Kişi was abducted from a plane by a group of unknown people in Kazak city of Almaty, his wife said in a recent video recording during which she also expressed concerns over Turkey’s long arm abroad. Social media accounts familiar with the issue supposed that Zabit had links with Gulen movement, which the

The government-closed Zaman newspaper’s reporter in the northwestern province of Eskişehir was sentenced to 6 years plus 3 months in prison on charges of membership to a terrorist organization on Tuesday. Mehmet Kuru, a father of one and a long-time Zaman reporter pleaded not guilty during his final hearing while the court in charge sentenced

A total of 23 academics and public servants have been fired from their jobs at Turkey’s Giresun University over their alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. According to the university’s dean, Cevdet Coşkun, after the coup attempt, the university management formed a committee

Bügün TV — a now-closed station known to be affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group — has reportedly been sold to Burhanettin Türkeş, a Turkish citizen who served 74 months for his role in murder of Jewish businessman Nesim Malki. Malki, who was a businessman based in Istanbul, was killed in 1995 by gunmen who opened fire