Turkey Purge

Gokhan Ozbek, a freelance journalist and an outspoken critic of Turkey’s post-coup abuses, was detained for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sept 14. “I am being detained on accusations of insulting the Presidency, in Istanbul… Goodbye…” Ozbek tweeted early Thursday. Ozbek has become known for his outspoken criticism against post-coup rights violations and […]

Turkish-Dutch businessman Ali Ekrem Kaynak was shot dead in Amsterdam on Sept 11 while a local source claimed that his links to the Gulen movement may be behind the shooting. The 48-year-old Turkish expat, who was attacked in head last year too, was gunned down in front of an Amsterdam branch of his fast food

A total of 14 people were detained near Turkey’s maritime border with Greece with most of them escaping from the government’s post-coup crackdown. Izmir police carried out an operation in the coastal district of Cesme where the suspects had reportedly gathered to go aboard and sail through the Greek island of Chios, on Wednesday. The

Detention warrants issued on Wednesday for a total of 79 people who used to work for private schools and private training centers that were shuttered by the government over alleged links to the Gülen group. According to the Cumhuriyet daily, the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office issued the detention warrants as part of an investigation into

A total of 10 women in Manisa’s Kula district were detained for their ties to associations linked with the Gülen movement, on Tuesday. The women, either former personnel or members of the government-closed associations in Kula, were taken into custody as part of an investigation into the movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the

A group of police officers are reportedly waiting outside the delivery room in Niğde Hayat Hospital in order to detain Büneyye Ö., who just gave birth, the Shaber3 news website reported on Wednesday. According to the report, police are now at the hospital to detain the woman over her alleged links to the Gülen group,

An arrest warrant had been issued for Prof. Dr. Mustafa Cüneyt Hoşcoşkun, the former Ege University rector who dismissed 11 academics from the same university in post-coup purge that later hit himself too, state-run Anadolu agency reported on Monday. During his tenure from Aug 12, 2016 to late August, 2017, Hoşcoşkun blacklisted 11 academics and

Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, in jail since July 29, 2016 over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, will reportedly be denaturalized from her Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) citizenship for allegedly allowing the followers of the Gülen movement on the island to use her residence there, pro-government Sabah daily reported on Monday. According