Turkey Purge

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 58 people on accusations that they linked with the Kimse Yok Mu aid organization affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday . According to the story, 31 of 58 people were detained during police operations in ten provinces across Turkey. The […]

Turkish prosecutors are seeking 12-year jail sentences for Cumhuriyet’s website editor Oğuz Güven, according to the Diken news portal. Oğuz Güven was put in pre-trial detention over a report that appeared on the Cumhuriyet daily’s website about the recent traffic death of Denizli Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Alper in Denizli province. Güven is accused of disseminating

the Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for at least 77 people on accusations that they use a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, police have so far detained 14 of the suspects in simultaneous operations in İstanbul and Muğla provinces.

An indictment which has been prepared against now-closed Zaman daily reporter Yakup Çetin seeks two life sentence on terror charges, several Turkish media outlets reported. Çetin was arrested Augus 2016 on the accusations of “establishing a terrorist group” and “plotting to topple the government” based solely on 13 Tweet messages and one article. The 31-year old

Süleyman Başer, a media consultant for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) who spent 10 months in prison, said his septuagenarian mother had been stripped naked before visiting him in jail. Released after 10 months in prison over terror charges on Oct 3, Başer told media that he is not as happy as expected. “My

The pro-government Güneş daily said on Monday that Turkish teacher Mesut Kacmaz and his family were brought back home at Turkey’s request despite the family’s asylum certificates granted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In a front-page story on Monday, Güneş said Turkey brought the Kaçmaz family back despite their UN protection. 

Hardly a day goes without a news story about disappearances of Turkish nationals abroad. In a recent video recording widely shared on social media on Oct 16, a Turkish woman Birsen Kilic said her husband Enver Kılıç disappeared while flying from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan. https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/x2waWoTVd3vziMHX.mp4 Social media accounts supposed that Enver had links with Gulen

At least 947 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 809 people were rounded up in operations targeting the Gülen movement in between Oct 9 to 16. Turkish government says the movement masterminded the July 15, 2016 coup

Turkish authorities cancelled state-issued press cards of 889 journalists, according to Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül. In response to a parliamentary question over the past week, Gül said the number of press cards cancelled in 2016 in Turkey was 889. Among the reasons for revocations were, the minister said, leave of employment, closure of media outlets,

Turkish police are waiting at Balıkesir Sevgi Hospital to detain M.A., who just gave birth by cesarean section, over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of mounting a botched coup attempt last summer, an opposition deputy tweeted on Saturday. Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from the main opposition Republican