Turkey Purge

Police waiting at hospital to detain Kayseri woman after childbirth: report

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Turkish police have been waiting inside Kayseri-based Tekden Hospital to detain Zeynep Toptaş, who just gave birth to her child, over alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to media on Sept 3. According to TR724 online news outlet, Toptaş faces detention immediately after the childbirth, as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the […]

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PEN Int’l urges Turkey to lift travel bans on author Aslı Erdoğan

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PEN International said on Monday it is concerned about travel restrictions imposed by Turkish authorities on award-winning author and honorary PEN member Aslı Erdoğan and called for their immediate removal. In a statement on its website, PEN International said Erdoğan was due to travel to Germany to accept the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize at a

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Turkey detains 2 German nationals on coup charges: report

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The German Foreign Ministry has announced that Turkish police detained two German nationals at Antalya airport over alleged links to the Gülen group, which the Turkish government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016. According to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr, the detentions are “politically motivated,” while Turkish media reported that the suspects had

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Ruling AK Party deputy: Don’t greet Gülen followers even during Eid Al Adha, report them to police instead

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Ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş warned party members in Kayseri on Thursday not to greet followers of the Gülen movement during the Eid al-Adha festival on Friday and advised members to report them to the police instead. Speaking during a party gathering in Kayseri

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Radiology professor, extradited from Bahrain, gets tortured in Turkish jail: lawyer

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In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture and ill-treatment in notorious Turkish prison despite he was under the United Nations (UN) protection in Bahrain. Murat Acar, 46-year-old medical doctor who was working as a professor and consultant at

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Erdoğan’s security guards indicted for attacking protesters in US

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Indictments have been issued for 19 people, including 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, for attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., during an official visit in May. The indictments, which were announced Tuesday, accuse the perpetrators of attacking people who were protesting the visit of Erdoğan and of committing a crime of

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Indian political cartoonist portrays forced disappearances of Turkey’s purge

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Aseem Trivedi, an Indian free speech activist and cartoonist, has drawn cartoons of 13 Turkish citizens who have allegedly been abducted or disappeared after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 in Turkey. The cartoons were published in the “Black & White – Online Cartoon Magazine for Human Rights” on Aug. 30 to attract attention to the

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Report: 22,000 prisoners sleeping on the floor in Turkey’s overpopulated jails

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At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on the floor as the prison population has exceeded 224,000 for the first time in Turkey’s history, the artigercek news website reported on Wednesday. According to the report, 202,000 inmates can be accommodated in current prisons, in which more than 224,000 prisoners are incarcerated, forcing 22,000 of

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Georgia shuts down Gülen-linked school as principal already under arrest at Turkey’s request

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Georgia’s Ministry of Education has revoked the teaching license of the Demirel College, a private school founded in Tbilisi by the followers of the Gulen movement, in a move that came three months after the jailing of its principal at Turkey’s request. The National Center for Education Quality Enhancement (NCEQE), an agency at the Ministry

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