Turkey Purge

Ömer Çatkıç, a former Turkish national football team goalkeeper was arrested on Monday on as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Detained on Aug 22, Çatkıç is accused of being a member of the Gulen movement. Among […]

The number of complaints filed over post-coup dismissals has hit 57,340 in August, according to Turkish media. More than 146,000 people have lost their jobs since last summer as part of the government’s crackdown in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 failed coup, which targeted Turkey’s Gulen movement, Kurdish minority, leftists, liberals and many

By means of new decrees issued on Friday, 3,000 more convicts will be released immediately on probation unless they were convicted of terrorism, sexual crimes or coup involvement. In addition, a total of 10,000 convicts will move from closed to open prisons. Last August, Turkey had released 38,000 convicts from prisons to make room for

An Izmir man, identified as M.S., was detained for helping the overseas followers of the Gulen movement raise money for post-coup victims in Turkey, on Friday. Bursa police carried out an investigation to round up M.S. who was suspected of distributing money to the victims of the government crackdown against the Gulen movement in the

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Cüneyt Hoşcoşkun, the former Ege University rector who dismissed 11 academics from the same university in post-coup purge, was removed from his job as part of the government’s new emergency decrees. The new decrees, published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday and numbered 693 and 694, dismissed another 120 academics from their

Hayati Güngören, an advisor to Turkey’s only communist mayor Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, was put in pretrial arrest on accusations of membership to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and of aiding and abetting it, on Thursday. Detained along with several other people as part of an investigation into PKK in Tunceli’s Dersim district on Aug 22,

The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) was tied to the presidency with two new decrees that Turkey issued on Friday morning, enabled by state of emergency powers, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the new decrees, which were published in the Official Gazette and numbered 693 and 694, the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee,

With new state of emergency decrees issued early on Friday, the Turkish government has dismissed a total of 922 public servants from public service. The new decrees, published in the Official Gazette, are numbered 693 and 694, are an addition to several others that have led to the purge of more than 146,000 people since a failed coup on