Turkey Purge

An Ankara prosecutor has issued detention warrants for a total of 100 former police officers over alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. According to the report, 63 of 100 police officers have so far been detained in simultaneous opetrations in 19 provinces as part […]

The Muğla Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into those who photographed a detention procedure that included stripping suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) naked, according to the Diken news portal. Seven people were stripped naked with their hands tied on their back before they were detained as part of an investigation into

More than 22,000 police officers have been dismissed from profession since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to Yılmaz Çolak, president of Turkey’s police academy. Speaking during a conference in Antalya on Friday, Çolak said 12,000 police officers are still under suspension over alleged links to the coup for which the government blames

Ex-director of a Turkish schools in Pakistan, Mesut Kaçmaz, and his family have allegedly been deported to Turkey days after they were abducted from their apartment in Lahore, according to the friends of the family. Several Turkish media outlets reported that the family — Mesut Kaçmaz, his wife Meral Kaçmaz and the two kids —

Five people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, Dogan news agency reported on Friday. Detainees, among them a woman, had outstanding arrest warrants as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement. Gendarmerie rounded up the suspects near the Uyuklu village in

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group deputy chairperson and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş said on Friday that emergency rule will be extended in Turkey for another three months, Turkish media reported on Friday. According to the CNN Türk news website, the extension of emergency rule will first be discussed on Oct. 16

Detention warrants were issued for 115 people from 328 schools and dormitories that were earlier shut down over links to the Gulen movement, on Friday. Police carried out operations to detain 115 former personnel of 328 dormitories, infant schools, primary, secondary and high schools in 15 provinces. 54 were rounded up while police were seeking

The teachers working for the schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kazakhstan fear reprisal in case they return back home, according to a recent report by the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). At least 27 Kazakh-Turkish schools have hosted dozens of teachers hailing from Turkey until very recently. When a military coup attempt hit