Turkey Purge

İstanbul and Ankara prosecutors have issued detention warrants for at least 254 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, in İstanbul, the warrants include 112 former and active duty staff members of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality and 18 other

A regional Turkish court has approved a 15-months prison sentence for Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces in Diyarbakır during a TV program in 2016, Cumhuriyet reported on Monday. According to the report Çelik, who said “Don’t let children die” during the “Beyaz

At least 20 people in 4 different Turkish cities were detained for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year, on Monday. Turkish media reported that the suspects were rounded up over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish authorities believe

Nobody has suffered from the post-coup emergency rule except for terrorist organisations and their members, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Speaking during a ceremony held for the start of the new legislative year in Parliament, Erdogan said the post-coup emergency rule hurt only terrorists. “So far, except for terrorist organisations and their members,

Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) cameraman Binali Erdoğan was removed from his job over social media posts criticizing the country’s newly introduced executive presidential system. TRT’s discipline committee ruled, on Sept 26, to dismiss Erdoğan from his job as part of an administrative investigation, launched before the presidential referendum on Apr 16, 2017. According to

At least 38 people in 5 different Turkish cities were detained for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year, on Friday. Turkish media reported that the suspects were rounded up over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish

Turkish security forces carried out 68,464 counter-terrorism operations in the past 12 months, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. Speaking to state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday, Soylu said some 40,000 of those operations targeted the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 25,000 were carried out against the followers of the Gulen movement and 2,109 against

The Turkish government’s blatant abuse of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to persecute, harass and intimidate critics and opponents is much worse than one might imagine, new research by the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), an advocacy group that tracks rights violations in Turkey, has revealed. The dubious and false charges filed by Turkey through Interpol