A renowned intellectual, journalist and president of the Journalists’ and Writers’ Foundation (GYV) Cemal Usak, who was among the targets of the Turkish government`s ongoing crackdown on the faith based Gulen movement, has passed away at the age of 63 while in exile. Usak had been receiving cancer treatment for the past several years. An […]
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Turks can now report people affiliated with Gulen Movement around them and lodge complaints through an Internet site set up at the initiative of the Turkish government. The portal www.fetoihbar.net has been named after FETO, an abbreviation that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan coined in order to describe the alleged network of the Gülen movement’s sympathizers
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Forced to stay behind bars for 42 days, social activist Tayfun Yıldırım has talked about his arrest, backing up widespread allegations that victims of Turkey’s post-coup purge are being subjected to beatings, torture and other types of maltreatment by prison officers. “Apart from what I experienced, I am telling you all the things I witnessed,” Yıldırım
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Under custody for his alleged links to the July 15 foiled coup, Mümin Köroğlu, a former physics lecturer at Ankara Police College, was reportedly forced to make the much-politicized Rabaa sign, with his mouth taped by police officers. First used by Muslim Brotherhood supporters to protest the military coup in Egypt in 2013, the four-finger
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not yet done with his widespread crackdown in Turkey. Now, Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked schools and libraries to summon and destroy all books and catalogs that contained the works of United States-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government blames for coordinating the military coup. It has also banned all books of 29 publishing houses introduced
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I have profiled Gulenist academics according to their departments since July 15, Aslan Bilici, former vice-rector of Turkey’s Dicle University said during his testimony in order to escape accusations that he is a member of what the government officials call Gulenist terror organisation. Bilici was briefly detained along with 63 other academics as part of
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Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş acknowledged that Gulen Movement has being accused for each and every wrongdoing in Turkey, saying that witch-hunt is underway for sympathizers of the movement. “When the shock absorber of your car is broken, they put blame on people with ties to FETO [an abbreviation the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan coined
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A private school affiliated with the Gulen movement in the eastern province of Van has been turned into a religious vocational schools known as “İmam-hatip” high schools. In a video footage released on social media on Sunday, Turkish authorities affiliated with the Van Governor’s Office are seen carrying a banner of the religious vocational school
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Some 43 journalists have been arrested as part a probe into the July 15 failed coup attempt, while the number of detention warrants issued against professionals exceeded 100, according to a journalism association. The Istanbul-based Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) said that with the Aug. 11 arrest of now-closed daily Zaman correspondent Ayşenur Parıldak, the
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A Turkish man has been attacked in the head a day after Turkey’s Consul General in Rotterdam called on people to “do their part” against Gülen Movement. Hasan Cücük, former Denmark reporter of Turkey’s seized newspaper Zaman wrote on his Twitter account on Friday that an Amsterdam-based Hizmet (a.k.a. Gulen Movement) volunteer was attacked a
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