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Turkish firm discriminates against purge victims in controversial job posting

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Discrimination in post-coup Turkey has reached a new level with companies discriminating against those who have lost their jobs in investigations targeting the government’s perceived enemies. Seramik Dünyası, a building materials seller in the Aegean province of Manisa, posted a job offer for salesperson position at its office in downtown. “Not having been dismissed from […]

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Turkey’s Justice Ministry asks personnel to spy on colleagues: leaked doc

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Turkey’s Justice Ministry has handed out pages of forms to its personnel asking if they know any colleague linked to terrorist organizations or the government’s perceived enemies, particularly the Gülen movement, according to a social media post. With the documents still lacking confirmation from any source, similar leaks in the aftermath of the July 15

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Leaked doc shows Turkey’s religious official in Belgium spied on Gülen movement

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A document dated Sept. 26, 2016 shows that a Turkey’s religious official in Belgium profiled Gülen movement expatriates living in the European country and their activities, in response to an earlier call from Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). The document, shared by the Twitter account of the Brussels-based Vocal Europe news portal, confirms that

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Gülen movement now blamed for police violence during Gezi protests

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In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for any wrongdoing in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, the ruling Justice and Development’s (AK Party) vice chairman and Istanbul deputy Mustafa Ataş said FETÖ was responsible for harsh police reaction to protesters in Gezi demonstrations in 2013. “Do you remember how people

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Turkey now blames Gülen movement for 9/11 attacks

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In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for anything bad in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor Yiğit Bulut hinted at connections between FETÖ and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. “FETÖ” is an abbreviation for the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization, coined by the Turkish

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Turkish mob boss to gov’t: Why bother with diplomacy? We’ll kill Gülen, his followers

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Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı implied in a letter to the Justice Ministry that his mafia network could kill Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in Pennsylvania and his senior followers elsewhere in the world. Çakıcı’s letter came weeks after Turkey’s controversial request that the US extradite Gülen. “Dear Justice Minister, you and the president continually

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Turkish deputy PM targets Gülen movement saying it is Turkey’s ISIL

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In yet another of such remarks, Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmuş targeted Gülen movement which was accused by Turkey’s government and President Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the failed coup attempt on July 15, saying it is not different than Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Speaking at the 9th meeting of

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Gülen mov’t now blamed for Turkey’s worst mining accident

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In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for anything wrong in Turkey, the chairman of Soma Holding has reiterated earlier accusations, demanding an investigation into the movement’s role in the country’s deadliest mining disaster, which killed 301 people in 2014. Soma Holding Chairman Can Gürkan said during a hearing on Wednesday that the

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PM Yıldırım: We’ll be relentless in rooting out Gülenists from wherever they are

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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told fellow deputies from Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a meetin on Friday that they will be relentless in rooting out FETO, a derogatory term coined by AKP government to refer to Gülen movement symphatizers, from wherever they are, a daily reported. “We have to root FETO members out

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Angry Çanakkale man hits Gülen follower in head with mop stick

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“No room for the traitor!” an assailant shouted after attacking with a mop stick a Çanakkale man who was detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15. Top government officials have called on people to lend a hand in its all-out

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