Following the unexpected election victory of Donald J. Trump in the US, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım congratulated the president-elect on Wednesday and called on Trump to extradite Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999. Holding Gülen responsible for a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July […]
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A total of 20 people, among which are police officers, prosecutors and teachers, have been found dead in Turkish prisons since the failed coup attempt of July 15, causing serious concern about the fate of thousands of civilians who have been kept in jail in very poor conditions across the country. The relatives of most of
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İrfan Kızılarslan, a former colonel who was dismissed from the military and arrested following a failed coup on July 15 due to alleged involvement in the attempt, was found dead on Saturday in a prison in Turkey’s Tokat province. More than 20 suspects in the ensuing coup investigation have been found dead in Turkish prisons.
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Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a Turkish police use real bullets to disperse people who have taken to the streets in Şişli district of İstanbul to protest the arrest of Kurdish politicians. The 18-second video, viewed hundreds of times on YouTube and Twitter, a group of police officers use excessive force against Kurdish demonstrators, trying
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a TV program on Thursday that his government have redefined “democracy and secularism” and therefore managed to show the world “how a Muslim can do politics,” state-run Anadolu News Agency reported on Friday. Speaking to Doha-based state-funded broadcaster Al-Jazeera, Erdoğan said We redefined democracy and secularism. We maintained that
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https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/FZveK6KT8VbdfZyp.mp4 Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a Turkish police chief orders his subordinates to use guns against HDP members who have taken to the streets in İstanbul to protest the arrest of Kurdish politicians. The 11-second video, viewed hundreds of times on YouTube and Twitter, shows a police chief ordering other officers to show protestors no mercy,
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Aladdin Demir, the mukhtar (head) of the Çukur neighborhood in Gaziantep, hung two banners on the side of his office stating that sympathizers of the Gülen movement are not allowed in the area and that people can call him to report any transgressor via a 7/24 hotline. The discriminatory practices backed by Turkey’s top state
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The government has reportedly taken another step to segregate Gülen movement from society with the Finance Minister Naci Ağbal ordering tax offices to exclude people linked to the Turkey’s new scapegoat from the recently-announced debt restructuring program. Turkish government accuses the movement of not only masterminding the July 15 coup attempt but also of many
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Two ministers from Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been found by security authorities to be using a smart phone application named ByLock that caused hundreds of detentions in the wake of a coup attempt on July 15, the Sözcü daily reported on Sunday. Sözcü claimed that authorities deciphered ByLock and found that the
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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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