Turkey Purge

A number Islamic books written by Fethullah Gulen have been confiscated along with several copies of the now-closed Sizinti magazine during an anti-drugs operation in Turkey’s southern province of Adana. Anti-narcotics police in Adana’s Seyhan district raided a passage upon a complaint to seize opiate drugs on Wednesday. While four people were detained as part […]

The Samsun Barbers Chamber announced on Wednesday that they have banned all barbers in the province from doing American-style haircuts in support of the Turkish government in a row with the US, which suspended non-immigrant visa services in Turkey after a US Consulate staff member was arrested. According to the CNN Türk website, Samsun Barbers

Turkish police deployed tear gas to disperse tens of university students in İstanbul who were marching to commemorate the victims of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 102 people near Ankara’s main train station on Oct. 10, 2015. According to a Twitter account run by a group of students from İstanbul University, at

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for awarding the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize to jailed judge Murat Arslan, the president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), on Monday. In a statement on its website on Monday, Turkey’s Ministry

Twelve people were detained in Turkey’s border province of Edirne while they were on their way to escape to the Greece, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday. Detainees include four children, a teacher removed from his/her job and dismissed public servants who worked as rapporteurs at the Prime Ministry until they were sacked in

Detention warrants have been issued for at least 70 more soldiers of various ranks as part of an investigation into Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by Turkish authorities of orchestrating a failed coup in Turkey last summer, DHA news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the warrants issued by the Konya Chief