Turkey Purge

Alparslan Kuytul, president of the Furkan Foundation and leader of a religious group critical of the Turkish government, was released pending trial on Thursday after spending 22 months in pre-trial detention Kuytul is still facing a 20-year prison sentence on terrorism charges. In January, he was released by another court only to be re-arrested several

Bosnian police reportedly detained a Turkish citizen over his alleged membership in the Gülen movement, the Bold Medya news website reported. Fatih Keskin, a Turkish educator and the principal of Una-Sana College, an institute operating within the Gülen-affiliated Richmond Park Schools Group, was detained by the police in Bihać city, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said at a gendarmerie command meeting on Wednesday that at least 500 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants are still in Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. “We will make all preparations and use all our capabilities to eliminate these 500 terrorists in 2020,” Soylu said. In August, he claimed

A Turkish court has arrested three district mayors in the country’s Southeast who were previously removed from office by the Interior Ministry, the Turkish media reported. Savur district Co-mayor Gülistan Öncü, Mazıdağı district Co-mayor Nalan Özaydın and Derik district Co-mayor Mülkiye Esmez, all in Mardin province, who were detained following police raids on Nov.15, were

Ahmet Ataç, an eight-year-old kid with stage four bone cancer, has reportedly been denied a passport by Turkish authorities due to the his father’s ongoing imprisonment over alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group. The group is accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a pro-Kurdish deputy

A Turkish family who reportedly has links to Turkey’s Gülen group is at risk of deportation to Turkey by the German authorities, despite evidence that they could face serious harm in the country. According to the Bold news portal, the Gün family has recently had their asylum application rejected by Germany. Merseburg police reportedly raided

Mustafa Yılmaz, a Turkish man who was allegedly abducted by unidentified people in April, was “found” at a police station in Karapürçek, a town near the Sakarya province, his wife tweeted on Tuesday. According to the, Mr. Yılmaz was transfered to the Ankara Police Department’s Bureau of Organized Crimes after he was found and currently

Cambodian police have detained the Turkish-Mexican former director of a school run by the movement of US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, who Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, his wife said on Friday, according to Reuters. Osman Karaca, former director of Zaman International School, was arrested by eight policemen while he was at a