Turkey Purge

Ahmet Mandaci, a lawyer representing hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, under arrest for over 2 months, was arrested. “We were told that lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was rounded up in the courthouse. Lawyer Ahmet Mandaci was arrested after the prosecutor objected his brief release,” a series of tweets by the People’s Law Bureau

At least 15 teachers who have previoulsy been dismissed from profession with decress issued by the Turkish gov’t, were taken into custody over their alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which the authorities accuses of masterminding a coup attempt last year. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in the central Anatolian province of Aksaray issued on Thursday

At least 32 people in ten different Turkish cities for alleged links to the Gülen group, which is accused by the government of being behind a failed coup in Turkey last year. The CNN Türk website reported that 17 people in 10 provinces were detained over their alleged use of the ByLock application, which Turkish

A group of academics who were fired from their universities with decrees issued by the Turkish gov’t in the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt, has opened a coffee shop with a small library in the southern Turkish province of Mersin. Purge-victim professor Ayşe Gül Yılgör, assistant professor Ulaş Bayraktar, research assistant Galip Deniz Altınay, activist Nalan

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday submitted a request to the Justice Ministry for a red notice for former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who fled Turkey for Germany last year. According to a Cumhuriyet daily report on Thursday, the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to the General Directorate of

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the US to extradite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in return for releasing American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016. Erdoğan’s remarks came on Thursday during the police academy graduation ceremony in Ankara. Criticizing the US for not taking any action

Gökhan Güçlü, a noncommissioned officer and one of the suspects on trial for an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of a failed coup last year, face up to 5 years in prison for wearing a T-shirt that bore the word ‘hero’ during a hearing. The prosecutor in charge also seeks 5-year

A dismissed teacher, identified only by initials H.Y.Y., and an Istanbul businessman, A.B., have been detained during their second attempt to flee Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece. H.Y.Y. and A.B. were briefly detained for attempting to illegally cross Turkey’s Greek border in Edirne’s Serem village on Sept 24. Two days after the incident, gendarmerie stopped